716 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Dendrolium. 



Lindley refers Don's D. pusillum to his D.pygmaum, which is a Nepal and Wallichian 

 plant, and agrees better with alpestre. 



18. D. strong ylanthum, Eeichb.f. in Gard. Cliron. 1878, i. 462 ; 



racemes lateral dense-fid. , sepals acuminate, lateral lanceolate, dorsal 

 linear, mentum obtusely angled, lip clawed dilated triangular, sides 

 pectinately serrate to the middle, apex narrowed with small abrupt fleshy 

 calli on each side, disk with a depressed callus very papillose in front keeled 

 in the middle. 



INDIA (Hort. Hinclcs). 



Stem 12 in., erect, as thick as a goose-quill, closely sheathed. Fevers rather 

 small, yellow green ; bracts lanceolate, about equalling the pedicelled ovaries ; base 

 of sepals dark violet-brown, petals spotted brown ; sides and tip of lip dark violet ; 

 column 3-toothed, constricted in the middle. Nearest to erice/lorum, denudans, 

 aud pycnostachyum, R. /. 1. c. I have seen no specimens. The lateral racemes are 

 exceptions in the group. 



Side lobes of lip entire, serrulate or crenulate. 



19. D. microbulbon, A. Rich, in Ann. Sc. Xat. Ser. 2, xv. 19, t. 8; 

 pseudobulbs small crowded ovoid, leaves 2 linear-oblong acute, scape 

 solitary erect 4-8-nd., bracts about equalling the pedicel, lateral sepals 

 obtuse, petals narrowly snbspathulate, mentum long incurved, lip thick, 

 side lobes broad acute, midlobe small round crenulate, disk with a chan- 

 nelled ridge thickened at the end. Lindl. in Sot. Keg. 1844, 61 ; in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. iii. 19 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 261 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 307. 

 1). humile, Wight Ic. t. 1643 ; Walp. I. c. 308. D. crispum, Dalz. in Hook. 

 Journ. Sot. iv. (1852) 111 ; Walp. I. c. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; on the Western Ghats, from the Concan, Law, &c., to the 

 Nilghiris, Perrottet, &c., and Anamallay Hills, Wight. 



Pseudobulbs |-f in. diam. ; sheaths membranous, which decaying leave a 

 network of fibres. Leaves 2-3 in., rather thick, caducous. Scape 1-2 in., flowers 

 white with a pink lip; sepals J in. long ; lip attached above the base of the acute or 

 obtuse mentum. 



20. I>. porphyrochilum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 18; stem 

 very short erect, leaves 1-4 ligulate, scape short solitary few-fld., bracts 

 about equalling the pedicels, sepals lanceolate, petals shorter, mentum 

 rounded, lip short ovate acute concave, disk with 2 broad plates and 3 

 ridges. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6000 ft. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft., Griffith, 

 &c. 



Stem |-1 in., often pseudobulbous. Leaves 1-3 in., obtuse or obliquely notched. 

 Sepals 5 in. long, dirty yellow ; lip brown purple. The Sikkim specimens are in 

 young bud only, and the bracts are longer than the flowers ; it may be a different 

 species. 



21. D. cuspidatum, Lindl. in Wall. C^.20]5; Gen. Sf Sp. Orc/ii.J. 

 84; in Sot. R((). 1844, Misc. 61; stem short stout erect, leaves 2-5 linear- 

 oblong, scape short subsolitary erect 3-6-fid., bracts lanceolate as long as 



,the pedicels, sepals narrowly lanceolate, petals oblanceolate, mentum short 

 incurved, side lobes of lip large rounded, midlobe ovate acuminate quite 

 entire, disk with a channelled ridge rising into 2 lamella) at the base and 

 fleshy at the tip. 



