720 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Dendrobium. 



short rounded, lip very small narrow, side lobes very narrow, tips rounded, 

 midlobe shorter ovate rugose. Walp. Ann. vi. 295. D. ramosissimum, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1648 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 261 ; Walp. I. c. 300. 



BEHAR ; on Parusnath, Thomson. DECCAN PENINSULA; from the Con can to 

 Kurg, Jerdon, &c. ; Godaveri district, Gamble. 



Stem pendulous, 2-3 ft. long, and lower part of branches naked, upper with short 

 sheaths. Leaves (in Wight Ic.) 2 in. long. Racemes subs'essile, - in. long; 

 bracts minute, lanceolate ; pedicels nearly as long, capillary ; flowers yellow ; sepals 

 shorter than the pedicels. Wight describes the midlobe of the lip as suborbicular, 

 but it is not so in his figure or in the specimens. The Parusnath specimens are stouter 

 than the Concan ones, and the Godaveri ones still more so, and shorter. The name 

 lierbacewn is inappropriate, but claims priority. 



36. D. parcum, Reichb. f. in G-ard. Chron. 1866, 1042; Xen. Orchid. 

 ii. t. 169 ; racemes extremely short 2 1-fld., petals linear-spathulate, mentum 

 broad obtuse much longer than the oblong obtuse 3-nerved sepals, lip 

 exceeding the sepals straight narrow with a dilated cuneiform truncate tip 

 dull yellow speckled with purple. 



TENASSERIM, Parish. 



Stems 12-18 in., like those of herlaceum. Raceme -$-% in.; flowers 3 in. long, 

 greenish yellow. 



Sect. Y. FORMOSA (see p. 710). 



37. D. longlcornu, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1997; Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 

 80 ; Sot. Reg. t. 1315, and 1844, Misc. 53 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 16 ; 

 sheaths hirsute, flowers lateral and terminal, sepals lanceolate acuminate 

 not keeled, petals narrower acuminate, mentum slender funnel-shaped 

 straight acute as long as the dorsal sepal or longer, side lobes of lip rounded, 

 midlobe small orbicular fringed, disk with 3 crenate or wrinkled ridges, 

 nerves rarely papillose, ovary terete. Veitch Man. Dendrob. 56 ; Walp. 

 Ann. vi. 292. D. flexuosum, Griff. Notul. iii. 317. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA ; from Nepal eastwards, ascending to 8000 ft. in Sikkim. 

 KHASIA and NAGA HILLS, common. 



Stem 6-12 in., rather slender, flexuous ; internodes 1-1| in. Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, unequally obtusely 2 -fid. Floivers 2 in. long, white ; lip variable in breadth 

 and in the length of the fimbrise of the midlobe. 



VAR. hirsuta ; usually larger leaved, sepals petals and lip broader, nerves and 

 ridges of lip copiously setosely fimbriate. D. hirsutum, Griff. Notul. iii. 328; Ic. 

 PI. Asiat. t. 305 ; Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1884, ii. 488, Khasia Hills, alt. 

 4000 ft., Griffith, &c. Munnipore, Watt. After examining many specimens, I 

 think that Lindley was right in uniting this with D. longicornu, of which it is an 

 extreme form. 



38. P. cariniferum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1869, 611 ; sheaths 

 sparsely hairy, leaves Tin ear-oblong, flowers 2-3 on a short peduncle, sepals 

 lanceolate keeled, petals broader than the sepals elliptic-oblong apiculate, 

 mentum as long as the dorsal sepal corniform acute incurved, side lobes of 

 lip rounded crenate, midlobe obovate or rounded crisped papillose, disk 

 fimbriate, ovary triquetrous. Veitch Man. Dendrob. 27. 



MUNNIPORE, Watt. BURMA, at Bhamo, Berkeley. 



Stem 6-10 in. ; internodes i-f in. Leaves 2-3 in., coriaceous. Sepals 1| in., 

 pale buff; disk of lip with golden streaks-. Flowers coriaceous when dry, fragrant. 

 Var. lateritia, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1883, i. 656, has brick-red on the lip. 



