7iU OXLVIII. OBCHiDEyE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Dendrobtum. 



51. 3>. grande, Hook.f. ; very stout, leaves lanceolate acuminate, 

 flowers pedicelled, mentum about as long as the rest of the flower incurved, 

 lip cuneate with a toothed lamella on the disk and a spreading fan-shaped 

 2-lobed tip, the lobes broadly truncate. 



PEBAK, Scortechini. PENANG (Ic. in Herb. Keiv). ? S. ANDAMAN ISLANDS, 

 Kurz. 



Stem 6-18 in., very broad (1 in.) above. Leaves 2-2^ in. Floivers about ^ in. 

 long, yellow, with red on the disk of the sepals aud petals. Described from the Kew 

 and Scortechini's drawings. 



52. D. atropurpureum, Miquel Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 644 ; leaves 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate acute, flowers subsessile in axillary shortly 

 peduncled bracteate heads, mentum as long as the sepals, lip thick ciliate 

 linear, tip dilated obscurely 3-lobed, disk caruncled. D. concinnum, Miq. 

 I. c. Oxystophyllum atropurpureum, Blume Bumpk. iv. 41, t. 193, f. 4, and 

 198 C; Walp. Ann. iii. 530. 0. carnosum, Bl.ume Bijd. 336, fig. 38; 

 Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 72. Aporum concinnum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 

 2019; Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. I. c. 



TENASSEEIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. PEBAF, Scortechini. SINGAPOBE, Wallich. 

 DISTEIB. Siam, Malay Islands. 



Stem 4-6 in. Leaves 1-1 -^ in., variable, not striate. Flowers about 1 in., 

 yellowish or pink ; lip with a tubercle under the tip. 



**** Flowers axillary or terminal; bracts minute, inconspicuous. 



53. D.sinuatum, Lindl. ex Walp. Ann. vi. 280; leaves very ir- any 

 close set lanceolate acuminate, flowers axillary solitary, lip fleshy elongate 

 cuneate with a caruuculate ridge within the margin at the tip ciliate. 

 Aporum sinuatum, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 1 ; Griffiili in Calcutt. 

 Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 368 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 280. 



PENAN G, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1603). MALACCA, Griffith. SINGAPORE, 

 Cuming (Hort. Loddiges). DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Resembles D. atropurpureum, but stems 6-10 in., leaves 1 in., more numerous, 

 close set and shining when dry, flowers very much larger and solitary with small 

 basal bracts. 



54. D, anceps, Swartz in Act. Holm.. 1800, 246; leaves lanceolate or 

 ovate-lanceolate acute, flowers axillary very shortly pedicelled, mentum 

 longer than the sepals, lip cuneately oblong obscurely 3-lobed membranous 

 veined, margins crisped. Willd. Sp. PL iv. 136 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 487 ; 

 Walp. Ann. vi. 279. Aporum anceps, Lindl. Gen. 8f Sp. Orchid. 71 (excl. 

 cit.- Wall.} ; Sot. Reg. 1. 1239 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3608 ; Lodd. Sot. Cab. t. 1895 ; 

 Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 368. 



GANGETIC DELTA, Roxburgh, Sikkim Himalaya, in hot valleys, J. D. H. ASSAM, 

 Hamilton. TENASSEEIM, Parish. 



Stem 1-3 ft., stout, flattened, sometimes \ in. broad. Leaves 1-1 in., striate 

 when dry. Flowers i in. long, gi eenish or yellowish. 



55. D. Nathanielis, Reichl.f. in Schill. Cat. Orchid. Ed. 3 (1857) 

 26 ; leaves lanceolate acuminate, flowers very small, pedicel capillary, 

 mentum longer than the sepals, lip membranous cuneate elongate, side 

 lobes small, midlobe broad 2-lobed. D. cuspidatum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. iii. 4. D. multiflorum, Par. Sf Reichb.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 149, 

 t. 31, f. 2. Aporum cnspidatum, Wall, in Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 2. A. 



, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 2020. 



