tops of the stems and also from the nodes in the upper parts and reach a length 
of about 12 inches. On these a number of fair-sized flowers are carried. The 
sepals and petals are obtuse, linear-oblong in shape, often very twisted and with 
margins undulated. In colour the sepals and petals are bronze-brown, the mar- 
gins being suffused with yellow. Flowers in Spring. Al. Bl. C1. D1. El. (ea) Fl. 
(This plant does well out of doors in a sunny position in Brisbane and north- 
wards. It grows with great freedom when attached to a citrus or other soft 
barked tree). 
Var. fimbrilabium—rather smaller in manner of growth. Sepals ochre yellow— 
petals same colour, but veined and spotted with brown. Labellum pale sulphur- 
yellow, the lateral lobes being fimbriated. 
Var. Broomfieldii, Flowers yellow, the middle lobe of the labellum being green. 
Racemes longer and more pendulous than the type. 
DENDROBIUM VIRGINEUM. Native of Burma. 
A beautiful species with cylindrical black-haired stems clothed with oblong- 
ligulate bilobed leaves. Racemes grow from the top of the stems and carry a 
number of fair sized white flowers one third less in size than D. infundibulum, 
which it resembles. The labellum has two club-like reddish lines along the middle 
lobe, while there is a tinge of the same colour in the throat. Al. B2. C4. D2. 
El. (ea) F4. 
DENDROBIUM WARDIANUM. Native of Assam and Burma. 
One of the finest species, with stout, terete, noded stems which are somewhat pen- 
dulous by nature and are up to three feet in length. The deciduous leaves are 
lanceolate-oblong. The flowers grow in clusters of twos and threes on opposite 
sides of the greater part of the stem. These flowers are from 3 to 34 inches across. 
Sepals and petals are broad, thick, and waxy, and blunt at the tips. They are 
white, and the tips are a bright rich magenta purple. The lip is large, white in 
front with a blotch of purple on the apex, the throat being rich orange with two 
deep spots of amethyst-purple. Flowers in late Spring. A3. B3. C3. D3. El. 
(ea) Fl. 
Var. Assamicum. Stems shorter and slenderer, leaves narrower, flowers smaller 
but intensely coloured. 
Var. candidum. Flowers white—the spots in the throat being brown. 
Var. giganteum. Flowers up to 44 inches in width—otherwise as type. 
Var. pictum. Sepals and petals amethyst, with white margins, apex deep purple. 
DENDROBIUM WILLIAMSIANUM. Native of New Guinea. 
An outstanding species with stout terete stems growing to about 18 inches and 
with oblong obtuse, notched, persistent leaves 2 to 24 inches in length. Racemes 
from the upper part of the stems carry a few good sized flowers with white sepals 
and petals, lightly flushed with pale mauve—the labellum is large and prominent, 
“scoop-shaped” in front. It is deep mauve purple, paling at the edges. Flowers 
late Summer. Al. B1. C2. D2. El. (ea) Fl. 
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