DendroUum.'] CXLVIII. ORCHIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 729 



sepals, lip obcordate, with rounded side lobes, a minute midlobe, and a 

 caruncle at the sinus. 



PERAK, Scortechini. DISTRIB. Java. 



Stem as thick as a sparrow's quill, basal tuber |-1 in., globose or fusiform, 

 branches also thickened at the base. Leaves 1-1 in., strict, striate. Flowers $ in., 

 white ?, midlobe of lip very variable. The -lavau specimens seem to have narrower 

 petals and more acute lateral sepals than the Perak ones. 



7b'. D. crumenatum, Swartz in Act. Holm. 1800, 46 ; stem tall 

 branched, base fusiform, leaves oblong obtuse or notched, flowers many on 

 the leafless ends of the branches large white, dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate 

 7-nerved, petals linear-oblong 5-nerved, mentum equalling the lanceolate 

 acuminate lateral sepals conical acute incurved, side lobes of lip narrow, 

 midlobe much larger suborbicular crisped, disk with crenate ridges. Lindl. 

 Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 88 ; in Sot. Reg. 1839, t. 22 ; in Trans. Hort. Soc. vii. 

 70 ; Griff. Notul. iii. 315 ; Sot. Mag. t. 4013 ; Miquel CJioix, t. 22 ; Walp. 

 Ann. vi. 291. Onychium crumenatnm, Shane Sijd. 326. Humph. Herb. 

 Ami. vi. t. 47, f. 2. 



TENASSERIM, the ANDAMAN ISLANDS and MALAY PENINISULA, common. 

 DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago, S. China, Siam, &c. 



Stem 2-3 ft., stout. Leaves 2-3 in., coriaceous. Flowers 1-1 i in. long; 

 sheathed peduncle - in. ; pedicel i in. ; lip with a primrose disk and sometimes pink 

 veins. In a drawing in Hort. Calcutt. of a plant very like this from Penang, named 

 D. flexuosum, Wall., the sepals and petals are obtuse, and the midlobe of the lip 

 quite entire, rounded at the tip ; the mentum is shorter and straight. The Ceylon 

 locality attributed to D. crumenatum is no doubt an error. 



Sect. IX. BEEVIFLORES (see p. 711). 



77. D. bicameratum, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1839, Misc. 85 ; 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, flowers crowded on a short sheathed peduncle, 

 dorsal sepal ovate-oblong subacute 5-nerved, mentum urceolate, foot of 

 column 3-lamellate, lip broadly cuneate truncate, side lobes spreading 

 small acute, midlobe small fleshy caruncled. Sounders Refug. Sot. t. 143 ; 

 Walp. Ann. vi. 299. D. breviflorum, Lindl. in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. iii. 14. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2000 ft., Mann (Ic. in Hort. Bot. Calc.}. KHASIA 

 HILLS, Gibson. BEHAR ; on Parusnath (Ic. in Hort. Bot. Calc.}. TENASSEKIM, 

 Parish. 



Stein clavate, fusiform or elongate, and 12-18 in. JLeares 3-4 in., obliquely 2-fid. 

 Floiuers $ in. broad, yellow with stripes of red speckles ; lip golden yellow. 

 Apparently very variable. The figure in Refug. Bot. has fusiform stems with inter- 

 nodes -f in., and a rounded midlobe of the lip. The Parusnath plant has stems 

 6-7 in. narrowed at both ends, internodes -li in -> dirty-yellow flowers, and a 

 narrower mentum ; the midlobe of lip is very short. Lindley's specimen of D. breyi- 

 florum, erroneously supposed to be from Singapore, is a mere frustule of a stem. A 

 note of Dr. Thomson's attached to a drawing of this species (in Hort. Calc.) states that 

 it was introduced from Parusnath into the Calcutta Garden ; it has pale rose-cold, 

 flowers. Lindley by an oversight says of the flowers, ''A little smaller than those of 

 Maxillaria stapelioides," which he figures (Bot. Keg. 1839, t. 17) with flowers 

 2.J in. diam. 



78. D. bolboflorum, Falc. mss. ; stem short fusiform or subclavate, 

 leaves oblong or lanceolate acute, flowers very small fascicled on a very 

 short bracteate peduncle subsessile, dorsal sepal broadly ovate obtuse 

 7-nerved rather broader than the obovate 5-7-nerved petals, lateral sepals 



