Dendro'bmm.'] CXLYIII. ORCHIUE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 727 



Stem 12-18 in., as thick as a crow-quill, internodes 1-lfc i"- Leaves 2-3 by ia. 

 Floivers T} in. long, nearly straight ; column with rounded tips. 



66. D. bambussefolium, Pariah fy Reichb.f. in Trans, Linn. Sw. 

 xxx. 149 ; leaves linear-lanceolate unequally 2-fid, flowers 1-3 on a leaf- 

 opposed tubercle, pedicel slender, dorsal sepal oblong-lanceolate, petals 

 linear-lanceolate acute, mentum as long as the ovate acute lateral sepals 

 cylindric-conic obtuse, lip narrowly spathulate entire or oblong membranous 

 veined, tip rounded or e margin ate, sides involute. 



TEXASSERIM, Parish. 



Stem 2 ft., stouter than in D. conostalix, polished. Leaves 5-6 by | in., sheaths 

 minutely granulate. Flowers -\ in. long, gi'een or white with purple on lip, which is 

 described by Parish as " strangely different on one and the same specimen." Habit 

 aud foliage of D. gemellum, of which it may be a var. Parish figures a more oblong 

 lip, notched at the end, unlike that which I examined ; he informs me that the lip is 

 very variable. 



67. I>. haemoglossum, Thwaites JEnum. 429; habit, size and 

 characters of D. bambus&folhtm, but pedicels shorter, flowers smaller, petals 

 ovate lanceolate, and mentum very short depressed conical, lip tongue- 

 shaped acute undulate. 



MALABAE, Jerdon. CEYLON ; at Matele and the Dolosbagey district, alt. 3000 ft., 

 Gardner, Tkwaites. 



So like Z>. bambtiscefoliitm that without the flowers the specimens seem to be 

 inseparable. 



68. D. Cathcartii, Ifook.f. ; leaves linear-lanceolate unequally 2-fid, 

 flowers in leaf-opposed pairs yellow with purple on the lip, pedicel slender, 

 dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate acute, petals similar but narrower, mentum 

 stout incurved shorter than the lanceolate lateral sepals, lip elliptic-oblong 

 acute quite entire. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA (Ic. Cathcart and Ic. Hort. Sot. Calc.}. 



Stem 12-18 in., internodes 1 in. Leaves 4-6 by in. Floivers 1 in. long. 

 A very distinct species with golden flowers, threo times as large as D. Iambus cufoliuin 

 according to the drawings. 



69. D. g-emellum, Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 81 ; in Sot. Keg. 1840, 

 Misc. 192 ; 1844, Misc. 62 ; leaves linear-lanceolate unequally 2-fid, flowers 2 

 on a leaf-opposed tubercle, "lip oval acute, tip subcrisped with 3 incon- 

 spicuous serrulate ridges, 3-lobed." Walp. Ann..vi. 286. Pedilonium biflorum, 

 Slume IBijd. 322. 



SINGAPORE, Cuming (Hort. Loddiges). MALACCA ; at Bronang, Grimth. 



Only seen in Herb. Lindley ; the two specimens exactly resemble bambuscefolium, 

 but are flowerless ; a drawing accompanies them of an oblong-lanceolate acute lip, 

 with 3 serrulate ridges (not at all spathulate as in bambuscefoliuvi). 



70. D. pachyg'lossum, Parish $ Reichb. f. tn Tran*. Linn. Sac. 

 xxx. 149 ; young sheaths hispid, leaves very slender acuminate, flowers 

 solitary or geminate, sepals triangular-ovate, petals narrowly linear 

 acuminate, mentum equalling the sepals recurved obtuse, side lobes of lip 

 very small, midlobe minute retuse, disk 2-keeled. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Stem 6-8 in., narrowed at the base and apex. Leaves 2-3 by T 1 ^ in. Sepals 

 streaked with brown. Lip white, with brown streaks. Reicheubach, from whom 

 the description is taken, says, "Very like D. attenv.atuin, Lindl." 



