DENDROBIUM RHODOSTICTUM. Native of New Guinea. 
An attractive species, growing in clusters, the stems being rather globular at the 
base and slenderly fusiform above (the fusiform part somewhat flattened), 
the total length being about 12 inches. They are usually topped with three 
leaves, oblong and acute in shape, paper-like but fairly firm in texture. The 
racemes come from the upper part of the stem (usually from near the apex), 
and are slightly drooping. They carry 3 or 4 fair sized snowy white flowers, 
the lower parts being suffused with green, the margins and rear part of the lat- 
eral lobes of the labellum being beautifully marked with purple, as is the throat. 
AD. B2, 2.3.) Fa. tea) PA. 
DENDROBIUM RUMPHIANUM. 
(A synonym of D. minax and D. stratiotes q.v.). 
DENDROBIUM RUPICOLA. 
(A Synonym of D. ciliatum q.v.) 
DENDROBIUM SALACCENSE. Native of Java. 
An interesting species with bamboo-like stems of about 3 feet 6 inches in length, 
with linear-lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves up to 6 inches long, and about } 
an inch wide. The flowers grow (usually in pairs) on short pedicels from the 
upper nodes of the stems. ‘These flowers are about 1} inches across, and vary 
from crimson to bright yellow in colour. The labellum is narrow at the base, 
but dilated and rounded in the front. Flowers in Spring and early Summer. 
Ab BU Cl DIN EL (ea) \F7. 
DENDROBIUM SANDERIANUM. Native of Borneo. 
A pretty species with rather black-haired, erect stems, with parallel rows of leaves 
which are: oblong-ovate, unequally toothed at the apex and about 14 inches 
long, and 1 inch wide. The flowers appear in bunches of 2 or 3 from the axils 
of the leaves. These are about 23 inches across—sepals and petals white. The 
labellum, which has small obtuse lateral lobes, the middle lobe being heart- 
shaped and scalloped, is white with pale rosy spots, Flowers in Spring. Al. 
Bl. Cl. D1. El. (ea) F4. 
DENDROBIUM SANGUINOLENTUM. Native of Penang. 
A lovely species with long, pendulous, grooved stems and elliptical (sometimes 
lanceolate) acute leaves up to about 34 inches in length. The racemes grow 
from the apexes of the well matured stems which flower for some years in suc- 
cession, and they carry from 2 to 5 flowers, which grow in a cluster. The flowers 
are about 2 inches across. They are pale yellow, the tips of the petals and 
sepals being touched with purple. The labellum is creamy white, the back being 
marked with purple and the disk ornamented with two large golden spots. 
Ade B2. C2. D2. El.jor E2. (ed) FS: 
Variety superbum is rather larger and more brilliantly coloured. 
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