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ORCHIDE^E. 



Very near Dend. Vlctoria-regince LOHER and D. subclamum KOLFE 

 (KEANZL. in Pfl.-reich. IV. 50, H. B, p. 11, fig. 6, A-G). 



Dendrobium monilifonne Sw. Compared with a specimen of the 

 species in the Tokyo herbarium. 



HAB. Arisan, inter Taroyen et Funkiko, leg. B. HAYATA et T. ITO, 

 Mart. 1914. 



The form of the lips is subject to some mutability. It is ovate to 

 rhomboidal, obtuse or acute at the apex, very much hirsute or nearly glabrous ; 



and the callosities at 

 the base of the lips 

 are in one specimen 

 very prominent, but 

 in another very faint. 

 Dendrobium 

 pendulicaule HAYA- 

 TA sp. nov. (Fig. 16) 

 = (Aporom penduli- 

 caule HAYATA in Herb. 

 Taihoku Museum). 

 Epiphyta; caulis 

 csespitosus, a summo 

 ramorum arborisaltis- 

 simae verticaliter 

 pendulus 30-50 cm. 

 longus lateraliter 

 valde compressus, 

 cum foliis Tcm.latus 

 viridissimus toto 

 longitudine foliosus 

 glaber. Folia dis- 

 ticha equitantia firme 

 pHcata (in exsiccato membranacea) plicato semi-oblonga (erpHcato oblonga) 

 5 cm. longa plicato 1^ cm. lata, explicato 26 mm. lata, explicate 10-nervia basi 



Fig. 16, Dendrobium pendulicaule HAYATA ; a, inflorescence ; 

 b, a flower-bud ; c, sepals ; d, a petal ; e, a flower, sepals and 

 petals taken off, to show the lip, cross lines show yellowly 

 tinted portions; f, a lip, seen from side; g, the same, seen 

 from front ; h, the same, seen from below ; i, a column and 

 foot ; yellow maculations on the lip are crossed. 



