730 (Xi. vi IT. ouruiDEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) \T)ewlrl>ium. 



triangular acute, mentum urceolate, base rounded, lip triangular broadly 

 truncate, apex formed of the spreading acute side lobes which are longer 

 than the very short broad sessile caruncled apiculate midlobe, column 

 with 2 spurs at the base. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Rungbee, alt. 3000 ft., Clarke ; Darjeeliug, alt. 7000 ft., 

 Gamble, 



Stems 4-8 in., often curved or subflexuose, internodes very obscure. Leaves 

 2-3 in., many-nerved. Flowers in. long and broad, greenish ; pedicels as long ; 

 bracts scarious ; column short and broad ; anther short. The name bolbijiorum is 

 attached by Falconer to a drawing of this plant in Hort. Bot. Calc., but no locality 

 is given. 



79. D. aduncum, Wall, in Bot. Reg. 1842, Misc. 62, 1846, t. 15; 

 stems slender pendulous, leaves linear-lanceolate, flowers on the leafless 

 stems in short racemes, bracts obtuse, dorsal sepal ovate acute, petals 

 rather broader, mentum very large urceolate as long as the triangular 

 acuminate lateral sepals, lip small cymbiform cuspidate ciliate, claw short, 

 disk villous, column bearded in front. Bot. Mag. t. 6784 ; Veitch Mm/. 

 Dendrob. 14; Walp. Ann. vi. 295. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 7000 ft., Pantling. BHOTAN, Lister. ASSAM, Jenkins, 

 &c. DISTEIB. China. 



Stems 1-2 ft. Leaves 2-3 in., thin, acute or obtuse. Floivers \ in. broad, 

 translucent, rose -pink ; peduncle clothed with membranous scales ; perianth segments 

 recurved; tip of column crenate ; anther purple, papillose. The Chinese D. herco- 

 glossum, Reichb. f. in Hamb. Gartenzeit. xlii. 558, resembles a form of this with 

 more acute sepals and petals, and deeper rose-cold, flowers. 



Sect. X. PEDILONIUM (see p. 711). 



80. D. secundum. Wall. Gat. 1996 ; stem stout, racemes shortly 

 peduncled secund deiise-fld., bracts small membranous, dorsal sepal ovate 

 obtuse, petals narrower linear-oblong, mentum as long as the dorsal sepal 

 or longer, lip spathulately oblanceolate cymbiform and entire subacute, 

 claw saccate, disk with a semilunate transverse ridge. Llndl. Gen. <5* 

 Sp. Orchid. 81 ; in Bot. Reg. t. 1291 and 1844, Misc. 65 ; ReicJJ). Fl. Exot. 

 t. 269; Bot. Mag. t. 4352 ; De Vriese Illust. t. 6; Veitcli Man. Dend <<>!>. 

 72. Pedilonimn secundum, Blume Bijd. 322. 



MAKTABAN, WollicJi. TENASSERIM, Griffith, Heifer. PENAXG, WallicU. DISTRIB. 

 Sumatra, Java, Cochin China. . 



Stem 10-24 in., pendulous, sometimes ^ in. diam., grooved. Leaves very variable, 

 2-4 by 1-2 in., oblong to linear-oblong, obtuse or retuse. Racemes 2-4 in., de- 

 curved, rachis very stout ; flowers hardly expand, and vary from deep red to white, 

 with yellow on the lip. Var. nivea, Reichb. f! in Gard. Chron. 1881, i. 733. 



81. D. cornutum, IfooJc.f. ; stem long slender, flowers on the leafless 

 stems 2-3 on a very short peduncle, bracts minute, dorsal sepal oblong 

 obtuse 5-nerved, petals narrower elliptic or oblanceolate, inentum cylindric 

 stout 2-3 times as long as the broadly ovate lateral sepals, lip entire very 

 narrowly spathulate, claw long with involute margins and a small fleshy 

 tubercle near the base. 



PERAK, Scortechini ; Summit of Gunong Batu Pateh, Wray. 



Stems 12-18 in. ; internodes 1 in. Leaves 4 by ^ in., linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 membranous, strict ; sheath i in., dotted with black. Floivers 1 in., often arched 

 like a bow, bright rose-cold. ; pedicel : | in., capillary ; column short, tips crenu- 



