40 CXLVIII. OUCHIDE.I:. (J. IV Hooker.) \_Dendrolluni. 



Man. Dendrob. 24, with Jig. ; Lindenia iv. t. 183; Gartenfl. 1883, 

 t. 371 ; 1887, t. 183, 548 ; Orchidoph. 1881, t. 148. ? D. criniferum, 7./wrf/. in 

 Sot. Iteg. 1844, Jfwc. 55 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 303. 



BURMA, Berkeley. 



Stems 1-2 ft., narrowed below, sulcate, old subfusiform. Leaves 4-5 in., 5-7- 

 nerved. Raceme erect ; slieaths short, lower not tubular; pedicels stout, l--2 in. 

 (with the ovary) ; flowers 3 in. diam., often triandrous. The leaves are stated in 

 Veitch's Manual to be persistent, but in the native specimens the flowers are on 

 leafless steins. Var. histrionica, Reichb. f. 1, c. 1888, i. 104 ; Veitch 1. c. 25 has 

 more fusiform stems, smaller flowers with much shorter fimbriae on the lip or 0. Of 

 Lindley's D. criniftrum, supposed, but erroneously, to be from Ceylon (an island 

 credited with Orchids as natives, which were no doubt sent from its Bot. Gardens 

 there), nothing is known beyond the description, which differs from that of Bri/mc- 

 rianum in the branched stem. 



138. D. moulmeinense, Parish mss. ; stems slender, leaves (narrowly 

 linear-lanceolate, Parish], flowers on the leafless stems lower racemose 

 upper 1-2 on a short peduncle, pedicels slender, bracts ovate concave, sepals 

 oblong-lanceolate acute, petals elliptic acute erose, mentum subcylind.ric 

 obtuse, lip large broader than long flabellately orbicular expanded sessile, 

 base cuneate pubescent above glabrous beneath nmbriate all round. 



TENASSEEIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Stems about as thick as a duck's quill ; interuodes 1 in. Flowers 1^-2 in. diam., 

 membranous ; rachis of 2-4-fld. raceme f in., slender, base with a lunate sheath ; 

 bracts in., thin ; sepals and petals pale yellow ?, lip primrose-yellow with spotted 

 bars at the very shortly convolute base ; column very short. 



Lip with the margin entire or erose (subfimbriate in D. Gibsonii). 



139. D. Gibsonii, Lindl. in Paxt. Mag. v. 169 ; Fl. Gar A. ii. 133, 

 fig. 204 ; stems slender, leaves lanceolate acuminate, racemes many-fld. 

 pendulous, basal sheaths tubular, flowers orange-yellow, lip with 2 brown 

 ^pots, sepals suborbicular, petals broader entire, menturn short, lip sub- 

 orbicular cochleate villous obtuse, margins everted subfimbriate, base 

 cuneate. Veitch Man. Dendrob. 47 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 293. D. fuscatum, 

 Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 8 ; jBot. Mag. t. 6226. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, J. D. H. ; ASSAM, the KHASIA MTS. and BUEMA, 

 common. 



Near D. fimbriatum, but stems shorter and more slender, flowers smaller, petals 

 not erose, lip broader, margins rather villous than flmbriate. 



140. B. dixanthum, Rcichl. f. in Card. Chron. 1865, 674; 18<s:',, i. 

 814; stems long sk-nder, leaves linear- lanceolate, racemes on the leafless 

 stems often whorled 2-5-fld., flowers golden yellow, sepals oblong subacute, 

 petals broader obtuse ciliolate, mentum snbglobose, lip dilated from the 

 2-auricled base flat puberulous ciliolate. Hot. Mag. t. 5564 ; Veitch Man. 

 Jhxdrob. 39. 



TENASSEKIM ; at Moulmein, Parish, &c. 



titems 2-3 ft., smooth. Leaves 4-6 by ^ in., erect, caducous. Racemes 3-4 at 

 each node ; bracts minute ; peduncle ai:d pedicels slender ; flowers 1 i in. diam. ; lip 

 <larker than the sepals, minutely barred with red at the base. 



141. D. clavatum, Wall. Cat. 2004; stems stout slightly 

 leaves linear-oblong obtuse, racemes on the leafless stems short few-fld., 

 (lowers lai'^e orlireous yellow, lip paler witli blood-rod disk, brads lar^-c. 



