Dendrobium.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 735 



sepals spotted ; ret'ils paler, lip purple-veined. One of the narrowest-sepaled species. 

 I have seen only a flower. 



** Mentum short conical or rounded (long in D. amoenum). Flowers 

 white or more or less purple. Lip not calceolar. (Porphyranthci.} 



f Petals as narrow as the sepals or narrower. Lip narrower than 

 broad. 



100. X>. candidum, Wall, in Lindl. Sot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 54, and 

 1844, Misc. 52 ; stem slender erect flexnous terete, leaves lanceolate, 

 flowers on the leafless stems 2-3 on a short sheathed peduncle erect pure 

 white, sepals and petals subsimilar linear-obloug obtuse, mentum rounded, 

 lip ovate-lanceolate or narrowly trapeziform, base cuneate, side lobes 

 narrow, midlobe ovate obtuse, disk bearded and with a long callus. Paxt. 

 11. Gard. i. 63, fig. 41 ; Wai p. Ann. vi. 286. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Kumaon, alt. 3COO ft., S'rachey fy Win/erbotfom ; 

 Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 7000 ft., King's Collector-, Bhotan, Griffith. 

 KHASIA. HILLS, Gibson (To. in Hort. Bot. Calc.). 



Stem 6-12 in., internodes 1-1^ in. Leaves 3-5 in. Flowers 1-1 ^ in., fragrant ; 

 bracts \ in., ovate; pedicels f in. 



101. D. macrostachyum, Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 78; in Bot. 

 Reg. t. 1865, and 1844, Misc. 50; stems long pendulous terete, leaves 

 membranous ovate-oblong acute, flowers 2-3 on a short peduncle from the 

 subleafless stems small long-pedi celled yellowish, sepals and petals 

 lanceolate acuminate recurved, mentum rather long funnel- shaped, lip 

 oblong acute flab with a convoluted base crenulate. Wight Ic. t. 1647 ; 

 Walp. Ann. vi. 286. 



TRAVANCORE, Wight. CEYLON, common in the Central Province. 



Stems 1-2 ft., rather slender. Leaves 3-4 in. Flowers 1 in. long, fragrant ; 

 bracts small; pedicels in., slender; lip with purplish veins ; sepals and petals 

 sometimes tinged with pink. 



102. D- scabrilingrue, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 25; stems 

 erect subclavate hirsute, leaves linear-oblong broadly 2-lobed, flowers 2-nate 

 on a short peduncle from the leafing or leafless stems white, lip yellow with 

 green veins, sepals ovate-lanceolate subacute, petals more oblong, mentum 

 conical green, side lobes of oblong lip narrow, midlobe oblong ret use 

 recurved, disk scabrid and 5-ridged. Reichb.f.in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 

 150; Veitch Man. Dendrob. 72. D. hedyosmum, Batetn. in Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5515. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Stems 6-12 in., internodes | in., nodes sometimes ^ in. diam. Leaves 2 in., 

 coriaceous, unequally obtusely 2-tid. Flowers 1 in. diam. , sweet-scented; pedicels 

 short ; bracts very small. 



ft Petals as narrow or narrower than the sepals. Lip as broad as 

 long. 



103. D. primulinum, Lindl. In Gard. Citron. 1858, 223; in 

 I. inn. Soc. iii. 12 ; stems short pendulous, leaves coriaceous broadly oblong, 

 flowers solitary on the leafless stems shortly pedicelled white or pink, lip 

 primrose, sepals and petals subequal linear-oblong- obtuse, mentum rounded, 

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