DENDROBIUM SARCOSTOMA. 
(A synonym of Dend. macrophyllum q.v.) 
DENDROBIUM SCABRILINGUE. Native of Moulmein. 
A charming species with club-shaped, erect, 8-inch, black-haired stems, with a few 
oblong-linear leaves—obtuse and bilobed at the apex. The flowers appear usually 
in pairs from the nodes of the stems. They are about 1} inches across. The 
sepals and petals are white (sometimes tinted pale green), the labellum has white 
lateral lobes marked with purplish-brown, the middle lobe which is long and 
recurved with crenulated edges is a bright golden yellow, the disk being furrowed 
with yellow grooves and marked with purple stripes. This orchid is strongly 
scented. Al. B2. C3. D2. El. (ea) F7. 
Synonymous with Dend. Hedyosum. 
DENDROBIUM SCHMIDTIANUM. Native of Siam. 
A species closely allied to the popular Cingalese Dend. crumenatum. It has 
slender, closely clustered, curved stems which are fusiform in the lower part and 
attenuated above, and of a total length of 8 inches. The upper part of the stem 
has a few acute oblong-lanceolate leaves, the base of which sheath the stems, 
and are about 4 inches long in the blade. The flowers which are fairly large 
open in succession along the stems. They are diaphanous in texture, and snowy 
white in colour. Flowers usually after the Autumn rains. A2. B2. C3. D3. 
Et. (ea) Ps. 
DENDROBIUM SCHNEIDERAE. Native of Northern New South Wales to 
North Queensland. 
A minute species of botanical interest only. The pseudobulbs grow in dense 
masses on the rocks of the Darlington Ranges. They are very short (about }$ an 
inch tall), conical in shape and grow close together on a creeping rhizome. 
Each pseudobulb has two oblong-linear leaves about an inch in length. The 
racemes, grown from the terminals, are about 34 inches long and carry about 10 
tiny flowers. They are greenish-yellow in colour, marked with red. The labellum 
is the same colour, the pointed lateral lobes being tipped with brown. A2. B2. 
Ch D1, EF. 213. 
DENDROBIUM SMILLIAE. Native of North Queensland. 
Commonly called the Bottle-Brush orchid from the manner of florescence. 
The stems are in small fascicles and are cylindrical, furrowed, attenuated 
at the apex, and about 2 feet or more in length. The leaves are ovate- 
lanceolate and pointed, the apex being slightly twisted; they are paper-like 
in texture, and from 2 to 4 inches in length and 3 inch in width. The racemes 
come from the upper nodes of the two-year-old stems, and are about as 
long as the leaves. They are densely crowded with numerous small flowers, each 
of a total length of 4 inch, and are crimson tipped with green and have a spur 
which is longer than the sepals. It flowers in Summer, but is rather shy in 
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