Dendrobinm.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDE.E. (J. 13. Hooker.) 747 



sepals linear-oblong, petals much broader, mentum short, lip with a short 

 convolute base and transversely oblong pubescent limb, margin recurved 

 erose. Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Card. ii. 104, fig. 189; But. Mag. t. 6993 ; 

 Walp. Ann. vi. 293. 



TEOPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon eastwards. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 5-6000 ft., 

 Mann. 



Stems l|-2-j ft., as thick as the finger. Leaves 3-5 in., coriaceous. Racemes 

 with membranous oblong tubular sheaths; flowers 2-2.j in. diam., glossy; petals 

 suborbicular. Capsule 2 in., fusiform. 



142. D. binoculare, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1869, 785 ; stems 

 slender, leaves lanceolate acuminate, racemes ascending, bracts very small, 

 flowers small coppery orange with 2 maroon spots on the lip, sepals elliptic- 

 oblong, petals obovate, lip clawed reniform pubescent plicately denticulate 

 or crenate, disk concave. Veitcli Man. Dendrob. 23. 



PEGU ; hills east of Prome, Benson. 



A little known plant, differing, according to Veitch, from D. fuscatum (Glbsonii) 

 by its more slender stems, smaller leaves and flowers ( in. diam.), and differently 

 shaped lip. 



ft Stem terete (not clavate). Flowers solitary or 2-3. (See also D. 

 arjcjrer/atum.} 



143. D. chrysanthum. Wall. Cat. 2012; stems pendulous, leaves 

 lanceolate acuminate, nowers 2-4-nate on an obscure leaf-opposed peduncle 

 fleshy yellow, lip with a blood-red spot, sepals broad concave, petals 

 orbicular fhnbriate, mentum broad crested, lip clawed orbicular from a 

 cuneate base villous, margins toothed or sub timb date, everted. Lindl. 

 (icn.^' Sj>. Orchid. 80; in Jo.it rn. Linn. Soc. iii. 8; in Bot. Reg. t. 1299; 

 Gartenfl. t. 446 ; 'Fran*. Jforf. Soc. Suss. 1864, 1. 154; Veitch Man. Dendrob. 

 28. D. Paxtoni, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1839, Misc. 56 (not of Paxt. Mag.} ; Fl. 

 des Serrcs vii. t. 725. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nepal eastwards, alt. 2-5000 ft. KHASIA HILLS, 

 Griffith. 



Stems 57 ft., ribbed, loafy throughout; internodes short; sheaths large, 

 cupular. Leaves 4-7 in., 5-nerved. Flowers 1^-2 in. diam., waxy ; back of i etals 

 subcristate ; pedicel with ovary lg-2| in. ; bracts small, ovate, acute. Capsule 2 in , 

 subclavate. Jn Veitch's Manual the flowers are described as 4-6 and racemose, but 

 in the native specimens they are 2-4 and hardly racemed. Vars. anophthalma, 

 Ileichb. f. in G^rd. Cl.ron. 1883, i. 44, has an unspotted lip, and microphthalma 

 Reichb. 1. c. 1879, i. 365, has sepals without dorsal crests, petals subserrate or very 

 shortly timbriate. 



144. D. Harveyanum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1883, 624; stems 

 short fusiform, leaves 2-3 ovate-oblong, nowers 3 or move on a short lateral 

 peduncle (yellow), sepals lanceolate acute, petals larger oblong fimbriate r 

 mentum short retuse, lip orbicular concave papillose fringed. Veitch 

 Man. Dendrob. 48. 



BRITISH BURMA (Liverpool Hortic. Association). 



Sfems 6-'-9 in. or less. Flowers2\n. diam., bright canary -yellow ; petals fimbriate 

 as in D. Brymerianum, but less so. I have seen no specimens. 



M.J D. ochreatum, L>iuU. in Wall. Cat. 7410 ; in Bof. Itcj. ii infer 



