Flowered in July, 1879, for the first time it was described by Professor 

 Keichenbach from material supplied by us. 



The Professor says of it, " The lip is just alarming, it mimics that of 

 Dendrobium sanguinolentum, but is oblong not three-lobed, and shows 

 numerous minute teeth on its anterior edge. The whole flower is of 

 very firm texture and shining as if made of wax." 



It is not now in cultivation. 



DENDEOBIUM CEASSINODE, Bchb. /. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 164 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5766 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iii. 



p. 31. 



Sent to the Eoyal Gardens, Kew, and to Chelsea, by Colonel Benson in 

 1868, from the mountains of Arracan, near Moulmein, India, it flowered 

 simultaneously in both establishments in January 1869, but had previously 

 been made known to science by the Eev. C. Parish, who sent a sketch 

 of it to Sir W. J. Hooker, of Kew, prepared from material obtained in 

 the Siamese province of Kiong-Koung. 



The specific name refers to the swollen joints on the pseudo-bulbs, 

 by which this specimen can be readily distinguished. 



DENDEOBIUM CEETACEUM, Lindl. 



Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1847, t. 62 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4686 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iii. p. 33. 



Sent to Exeter in 1846 by Thomas Lobb, who detected it in the 

 Moulmein district. 



The specific name, from creta, " chalk," refers to the colour of the 

 flowers, which appear in May and June. 



DENDEOBIUM CEYSTALLINUM, Bchb. f. 



Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 572; Bot. Mag. t. 6319; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iii. p. 34. 



Discovered on the Arracan Mountains near Tongu, in British Burmah, 

 by Colonel Benson, through whom it was introduced, and flowered for the 

 first time in Europe at Chelsea in the spring of 1868. 



The specific name was given in allusion to the crystalline papillae with 

 which the anther case is covered. 



DENDEOBIUM CUMULATUM, Lindl. 



Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1855, p. 756; Rchb. id. 1868, p. 6; Bot. Mag. t. 5703; Veitchs' 

 Man. Orch. PI. pt. iii. p. 35. 



Eeceived at Kew and Chelsea from Moulmein through Colonel Benson 

 in 1867. 



It had previously appeared in the collection of Mr. P. Coventry, at 

 Shirley, near Southampton, as early as 1855, but its native country 

 was then unknown. 



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