96 MALAXIDE X. 
Brit. Garhwál, Capt. Roberts; Thákil Hill in E. Kumaon, Inayat Khán (Duthie’s 
No. 24092). Flowers in August. It extends eastwards to the Sikkim Himalaya and 
Upper Burma, and south to the hilly parts of the Ganjam district. 
2. DENDROBIUM DENUDANS Don Prod. Fl. Nepal. 34. 
Stems 15 to 25°5 cm. long, terete, suberect, many-leaved, the lower leaves often 
early deciduous. Leaves narrowly oblong, acute or subacute, sometimes obliquely 
notched, not narrowed to the sheathing base, 5 to 10 em. long. Racemes leaf-opposed, 
slender, decurved, longer than the leaves, many-flowered. Flowers 12 to 20 mm. long; 
floral bract minute. Sepals subequal, not wide-spreading, linear, acuminate, falcate. 
Petals like the sepals, but smaller. Lip much shorter than the sepals, decurved from 
the base, lower part subquadrate (when spread out), with two long narrow laciniate 
side lobes; terminal lobe strongly recurved, serrate and crisped; apex triangular; the 
disk with an obscurely 3-lined smooth surface. Column rather long, the margin of the 
clinandrium denticulate; foot of column long, curved, stout, concave, hispid near its 
extremity, without a nectary. Anther with its lower margin ciliolate. Wall. Cat. 2014 
(in part); Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 84; Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 156, and 1844, 61; 
Journ, Linn. Soc. іп, 19; Hook. f. Е. Br. Ind. v, 715; King & Pant]. in Ann. 
Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 45, plate 62, 
British Garhwál, 5-6,000 feet, on rocks, Duthie No, 4416(a); Kumaon, 4-5,000 
feet, Strachey & Winterbottom No. 5; Duthie Nos. 3403, 5992, 8019, 24094. Flowers 
towards the end of the rainy season. It extends eastwards to Sikkim. 
The flowers are pale green or whitish, the lip is veined with red, and the foot of the columu 
is tinged with red. 
3. DENDROBIUM ALPESTRE Royle Ill. Him. Bot. 370, t. 88, fig. 2. 
Pseudo-buibs elongate, polynodal, tapering from the base, 8-4 ста. long. Leaves 3-5 cm. 
long and 5-10 mm. in breadth, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, often notched just below 
the apex, many-nerved, thinly coriaceous. Racemes 3-7-flowered, leaf-opposed, slender, 
erect. Flowers about 16 mm. across; floral bract subulate, subpersistent, less than half the 
length of the stalked ovary. Dorsal вера! 9-10 mm., lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved, erect ; 
the lateral pair a little longer and broader, falcately lanceolate, acuminate, 5-nerved, 
spreading. Petals about 8 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 2-пегуей, erect. Lip 
decurved, concave, oblong-obovate beyond the narrow claw (when flattened out), yellowish- 
green with dark purple veins, side lobes erect, acuminate, deeply inciso-serrate along the 
edges; mid-lobe small, triangular, acute, much recurved, with undulate edges; disk with 
a thickened 3-lamellate mesial crest extending from the base of the lip to the insertion 
of the terminal lobe. Column long, its foot elongating to a right angle, anterior surface 
more or less blotched with purple, edges minutely papillose, the excavation at its apex 
partially concealed by a truncate inflated plate. Mentum short, obtuse. Anther with a 
denticulate lip. Stigma a viscid orbicular cavity below the anther. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 
1844, Misc. 61; Walp. Ann. vi, 300; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 715. D. denudans Wall, 
Cat. 2014 (in part). ? D. pusillum Don Prod. 35. 
