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ovate, obtuse, spreading, subequal. Petals much broader than the sepals, ovate with a 
cuneate base. Lip much larger than the sepals and petals, tranversely oblong from 
a contracted shortly-clawed sub-convolute base; the apex very broad, emarginate, entire, 
shortly and irregularly ciliolate; the dise concave, pubescent, Column broad,  Anther 
4-ridged on the summit; the nectary at the end of the foot oblong; the lower edge of 
the stigma emarginate and the upper with two small globose calli at its corners, Capsule 
fusiform, 3 or 4 in. long. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7411A.; in Bot. Reg., t, 1695; Bot. 
Mag., t. 3643; Paxt. Mag. Bot. VI, t. 145; Walp. Ann. VI, 306; Veitch Man. Dendrob. 
15; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 750. D. Lindleyi, Steudel Nomenc. I, 490. Р, Jenkinsii, 
Wall. in Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 37; Warner Sel, Orch. II, t. 23; Veitch Man. Dend. 1, с. 50; 
Walp. Ann. VI, 307. 
Common along the base of the Sikkim- Himalaya; Pantling No. 262 ; flowering from 
March to May. Assam, Chittagong, Burma and Perak; at the base of hill ranges. 
Distrib, Southern China. 
The flowers of typical D. aggregatum on first expansion are primrose yellow; but 
the colour deepens into orange, the lip having a dark patch near its base.‘ The specific 
name D. Jenkinsii was given by Wallich to the form in which the pseudo-bulbs are very 
short and the flowers are either solitary or in a 2-flowered raceme. This form has, 
however, been repeatedly found growing in the same clumps with plants having pseudo- 
bulbs of the ordinary length, and such as are found in typical D. aggregatum, We 
retain it as a variety, although it hardly deserves even varietal rank. 
Pirate 85.— Dendrobiun aggregatum, Roxb., var. Jenkiniii, K. and P. A plant, of dei size. 
Fig. 1 a flower with its stalked ovary and basal bract, 2 tbe base of the lip, 3 part of the margin of 
the lip to show the irregular cili, 4 column and its foot, the y in = 5 anther, 6 pollinia; 
ай enlarged. 
33, DENDROBIUM MACRAEI, Lindl. Gen. and Spec. odii. 75; in Journ, 
Linn, Soc, III, 6. 
Rhizome creeping, annulate, emitting pendulous polished stems 2 or 3 feet long and 
about '25.in. thick, bearing at irregular intervals narrowly fusiform, somewhat compressed, 
shining pseudo-bulbs 2 to 25 in. long. Leaf terminal, sessile, solitary, linear-oblong, 
sub-acute, 4 to 8 in. long and '75 to 1 in. in breadth. Flowers one or two from near 
the base of a leaf, '75 to 1 in. across; bracts at the base of the pedicel about two; floral 
‘bract proper, minute, much shorter than the stalked ovary, Sepals elliptic-oblong, sub- 
acute, spreading. Petals narrower than the sepals. Тір in general outline oblong-obovate, 
decurved about the middle, concave; the side lobes oblong with truncate erose apices, 
the disc between them with two fleshy sinuous crests; middle lobe contracted and coarsely 
erose-crisped at its base, its terminal part expanded and the edges much plieate. 
Column short, spotted, its foot short; mentum short, broad, conical; lip of anther 
minutely denticulate ; pollinia narrowly oblong. ` Thwaites Enum. Pl. Cey. 297; Dalz. and 
Gibs. Fl. Bomb,, 260; Hook, fil Fl. Br. Ind. V, 714. Р. fimbriatum, Lindl. Gen, and 
Spec. ; Orch., 76 (no? of Hooker). D. plicatile, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, Mise. 10. D. 
nonosum, Dalz: in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1V (1852), 299. D. Rabani, Lindl. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc.. Lond. ІП, 7. : D. pardalinum, Reichb. fil. in Gard. Chron. 1885, II, 230. 
D. Flabellum, Reichb. .fil. in Bonplandia, 1857, 56; Xenia Orchidacea, II, t. 118. 
Desmolrichum: fimbriatum, Blume Bijdr. 329, ; 2. bud ) 
