(.1. I). Hooker.) [Dendrobinni, 



lip large shortly clawed pubescent orbicular or reniforin with a short con- 

 volute base, margins everted ciliate. Trans. TrVv.v. llort. Sor. 18(51, t. 52 ; 

 Regel Gartenfl. 18bl, t. 326; Williams Orchid. Alb. vi. t. 28(5; Vcild, 

 \l<ni. Dendrob. 70, iri1h Jf(/., and var. ff iff an tea, 71. D. uobile, var. palli- 

 diflora, Hook. Bot. Mag. i. 5003. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Nepal and Sikkim. 



Stems 10-12 in., often in. diam. Leaves 4 in., smaller upwards. Flowers 2 in. 

 diam., odour of cowslips; bracts small ; lip 2 in. diam. in var. gigantea, tip rounded 

 acute or emarginate. Near D. Pierardi, but stem shorter and stouter, sepals and 

 petals narrower and subequal. 



104 D. cretaceum, Lindl. in But. Reg. 1847, t. 62 ; stems stout 

 curved pendulous, sheaths large loose, leaves lanceolate, flowers solitary on 

 the leafless stems shortly stoutly pedicelled nearly white, lip crimson- 

 veined, sepals and petals subequal linear-oblong obtuse, mentum conical 

 obtuse, lip shortly clawed orbicular from a short convolute base pubescent 

 ciliate. Bot. Mag. t. 4686; Jard. Fleur. iv. t. 344; Fl. des Serres viii. 

 t. 818 ; Veitch Man. Dendrob. 33. 



ASSAM, the KHASIA HILLS, and southward to TENASSERIM. 



Stems 6-12 in., f in. diam , internodes $-1 in. Leaves 3-4 in. Flowers 1^-2 in. 

 diam.; bracts small. Capsule % in., clavate. 



105. D. cruentum, Eeichb.f.in Gard. Ch ran. 1884, i. 604; stems 

 erect terete, base swollen, leaves obliquely oblong emarginate, flowers 

 1-2-nate axillary green, lip with crimson side lobes, bracts lanceolate con- 

 volute, sepals triangular-ovate acuminate keeled, petals linear acute, 

 mentum rounded, lip 3-lobed, side lobes erect oblong crimson, midlobe ovate 

 apiculate green with a tumid warted scarlet crest and 3 red ridges. Veitch 

 Man. Dendrob. 33; Warn. Orchid. Alb. iv. t. 174. 



MALAYAN PENINSULA, on the west coast (Hart. Sanders). 



Stems 1 ft. Leaves deciduous. Flowers l|-2 in. diam. ; margins of midlobe of 

 lip scarlet ; column green, margins crimson. 



106. D. ramosum, Lindl. in Wall. CV^.2003; Geti.fySp. Orchid. 82 ; 

 stems long slender branched pendulous, leaves lanceolate acuminate, 

 flowers in pairs on a short peduncle from the leafless steins, sepals lanceo- 

 late acuminate, petals spathulately oblong, mentum obtuse, lip broadly 

 obcordate from a short cuneate claw 3-lobed glabrous, side lobes rounded 

 as long as the small intermediate orbicular waved or crisped midlobe. 



SlLHET; at Pundua, Wallich. 



Stems 2-3 ft., internodes l-2 in. Leaves 2-3 in., thin. Flowers 1-1^ in. diam., 

 "yellow-green, lip with red lines." The specimens are very bad, and Lindlcy's 

 description consequently erroneous. The colours are from a note on Wallich's 

 specimens. 



ttt Petals broad. Lip narrower than broad. 



a. Flowers in short few-fld. racemes (hardly racemose in D. spathaceum). 



107. D. Blacarthiee, Thvoaites in Bot. Mag. t. 4886; Enum. 297; 

 sterns slender terete pendulous, leaves lanceolate acuminate, flowers 3-5 

 racemose from the leafing stems rosy, sepals lanceolate acuminate, 

 j>*'t;ils ovate oblong acute, mentum stout, lip spathulately rhomboid, side 

 lobes obscure rounded, midlobe broadly ovate subacute, disk glabrous. 



