7-1-S rxLvni. oKcmno;. (J. 1). Hooker.) [Dendfobium, 



t. 1705; stems short s^out decumbent, leaves ovate-lanceolate acuminate. 

 flowers 2-nate on a leaf-opposed peduncle golden yellow, disk of lip blood- 

 red, sepals oblong obtuse, petals larger quite entire, mentum stout, lip with 

 a convolute claw and orbicular concave blade pubescent, margins revolute 

 erose. Veilch Man. Dendrob. 66 ; "Wai -p. Ann. vi. 287. D. Cambridgeanum, 

 Paxt. Mag. vi. t. 265 ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 171 ; But. May. 

 t. 4450. 



KHASIA MTS., Gitfitli, &c. CHITTAGONG, Wallich. * 



Stems 6-9 in., ibter nodes contracted in the middle ; sheaths inflated. Leaves 

 4-5 in., base very unequal, subcordate, twisted. Flowers 3 in. diain.; pedicel with 

 ovary 1-H in. 



146. D. chryseum, Rolfe in G-ard. Chron. 1888, i. 233 ; stems slender 

 erect, leaves few linear-oblong, tip notched, Hewers on the leafless stems 

 solitary or in short sheathed racemes orange-yellow, bracts large sheathing, 

 sepals oblong-lanceolate acuminate, petals broader, mentum conical, lip 

 broadly clawed orbicular from a cuneate base pubescent subfimbriate. 



BnoTAN HIMALAYA (Ic. in Herb. Calcutt.}. ASSAM (Hort. Veitcli). SYLHET, 

 Mel nil le (Ic. Jerdon in tierb. Kew}. 



Ste-ws 1-2 ft. , rather slender. Leaves 3-4, subterminal. Flowers l-- in. diain ; 

 biacts i-f in., sheathing j lip with sometimes faint crimson streaks at the base. 



147. D. normalej Falc. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 196 (name only} ; steins 

 terete, leaves linear-lanceolate acuminate, flowers 2-3 subracemose on a 

 lateral peduncle with tubular basal sheaths golden yellow, sepals equal 

 ovate acute entire, petals and lip all equal and similar larger than the 

 sepals broadly ovate acute serrulate, column monstrous. Griff. Notul. iii. 

 255 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 284; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 10. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Garwhal, alt. 3-6000 ft., Falconer, Thomson. 



Stems 12-16 in., sulcate ; internodes 1-1 -^ in. Leaves 4-5 in., thin. Peduncle 

 or rachis 11^ i n -j pedicels | in., bracts small membranous ; flowers 1^ in. diam. ; 

 sepals and petals suberect. -It can hardly be but that this evidently monstrous form 

 is a state of some better known plant, but 1 fail to detect its origin. 



fft Stem clavate. 



Flowers racemose or 1-2 inform ofT). aggregatum. Petals in all but 

 lamellatum broader than the sepals. 



148. D. densiflorum, Wall. Cat. 2090; stems narrowly clavate 

 pendulous terete or 4-angled, leaves subterminal acute, flowers many 

 crowded in decurved racemes white or yellow, lip orange, bracts very large 

 membranous, sepals obtuse, petals broader erose, mentum large subglobose, 

 lip large funnel-shaped hippocrepiform retuse in front pubescent serrulate. 

 Lindl. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 34, t. 40; Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 90; in Sot. Reg. 

 t. 1828 ; in Journ. Linn. S->c. iii. 7 ; Paxt. Mag. v. 121 ; Sot. Mag. t. 3418 

 and t. 5780 (var. albo-lutea) ; Fl. des Serres, t. 1397; Warner Set. Orchid. 

 S<-r. 3, t, 21 (var.) ; Orchid. Alb. vi. t. 303 ; Veitch Man. Dendrob. 37. D. 

 clavatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 481. D. thyrsiflorum, Seickb.fi in III. Horlic. 

 xxii. t. 207: Garten fl. t. 1021; Flor. May. N. S. t. 449 ; Veitcli M.i.t. 

 l)ciitli-<>li. 80, with fig. ; GarJ. ('/iron. 1877, i. 653, fig. 105; Lindcnia i. t. 46. 

 Epidcndrum Dumunsatteij ll<rl>. H<un. 



