60 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
31. Denpropium мовснатом, Wall. in Don Prod. (1825), 34, 
Stems tufted, stout, terete, striate, °5 in. thick about the middle, and 3 to 6 
feet long, erect. Leaves oblong, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, acute or minutely and 
obliquely notched, slightly narrowed to the base; length 3 to 6 in. breadth 1°25 
to 9 in. Racemes one or two froma node very near the apex of a leafless or leafy 
stem, 9 to 15 in. long, deflexed, laxly 8- to 16-flowered ; base of the peduncle stout 
and covered with many sheathing imbricate bracts. Flowers 2 to 3 in. across; 
floral bract lanceolate. Sepals subequal, oblong-elliptic, sheathing, often 2 in. long, 
obtuse. Petals larger than the sepals, broadly ovate, obtuse. Zip shorter than 
the petals, forming а sub-globular or pyriform open-mouthed pouch, the margins 
. inecurved, the outer surface and the edges pubescent. Column short, broad, its foot 
widening downwards; nectary transversely oblong. Але” with an егоѕе lip. 
Capsul: fusiform, 2 in. long. Wall. Pl. As. Rar. II, 83, t. 195; Lindl. Gen. and 
Spec. Orchid., 82; in Bot. Reg. 1844, Misc. 37; in Journ. Linn. бос. III, 8; Bot. 
Mag. t. 3337; Paxt. Mag. П, t. 211 (excl. syn. clavatum); Veitch Man. Dendrob. 61; 
Warner Orch. Alb., t. 165 (var. сирғел); Walp. Ann. VI, 296. D. calceoluria, Carey 
in Hook, Exot. Flora, t. 184; Lindl, Gen. and Spec. Orchid., 83; Hook. fil. Fl. Br, 
Ind. V, 744. Р. cupreum, Herb. in Bot. Reg., t. 1779. Epidendrum moschatum, Ham, 
in Symes Embassy to ah ed. 1 (1800) p. SON. with f ed. 2, vol, III, 315, 
with fig. 
Sikkim; in tropical valleys ascending to 4 000 feet; Pantling No. 370. Westward 
to Kamaon and eastward to Bhotan, Assam and the Khasia Hills; also in Chittagong and 
Tenasserim; flowering from May to July. | 
The coloration of the flowers of this species is variable; but ss a rule, іп d 
Sikkim specimens, the sepals and petals are ochraceous with reddish tips and with 
reddish or orange veins, The lip is also ochraceous, but has two large brownish-purple 
spots inside its cup. The column is yellow and the anther purple. The odour is sweet- 
ish with a soupcon of rhubarb or musk, In other provinces the ochraceous colour in 
the flowers is replaced by white or by golden yellow, and the lip is not blotched with 
purple. The earliest name of this is undoubtedly pipendrum moschatum, and it was 
published in the year 1800 in the first edition of Syme’s Embassy to Ava, The 
name was repeated in the much later second edition of the same work, Wallich’s name, 
Dendrobium moschatum, dates from 1825; whereas Carey’s name, D, кош» was not 
published until 1827, ; 
Puare 84.—Dendrobium moschatum, Wall. Raceme ot flowers and leaf with part of stem, of 
natural size. Ап entire plant, much reduced in size. Fig. 1 column with its foot and anther i» situ, 
. 2 anther, inside view, З pollinia; all enlarged. > Д 
. 92. DENDROBIUM AGGREGATUM, Roxb, Fl. Ind. ІШ, 477, var. Jenkinsii, К. and Р. 
Pseudo-bulbs fusiform or oblong-compressed, 1 to 1:5 or 2 in. long, angled. Leaf 
coriaceous, solitary from the apex of the pseudo-bulb, oblong, obtuse and notched at 
the apex, narrowed at the base to a short petiole; length °75 to 2:5 in., breadth ‘4 to 
"б in, Flowers in а 2-to 8- to many-flowered drooping raceme from the adi of a small 
scale, from 1 to 1°25 in, across, the stalked ovaries longer than the leaves. Sepals small, 
