DENDROBIUM. 97 
Not uncommon in Garhwál and Kumaon at elevations between 4,000 and 6,000 
feet, usually on rocks, flowering during the latter part of the rainy season. It extends 
eastwards to Nepal. 
Prate 97. Dendrobium alpestre Royle.—Portion of plant,—of natural size, 1, а 
single flower; 2, ditto with sepals and petals removed; 3, lip, flattened out; 4, column; 5, 
summit of column with anther removed; 6, front view of anther; 7, side view of ditto ; 
8, pollinia ;—al/ enlarged. 
4. DENDROBIUM PRIMULINUM Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1858, 223. 
Stems up to З dm. long and about 1:5 cm. in diam, pendulous. eaves about 1 dm. 
long, the upper ones smaller, broadly oblong, coriaceous. Flowers solitary from the 
nodes of the leafless stems, shortly pedicelled, 6:5 cm. across; floral bract minute, 
emarginate. Sepals and petals white or pink. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 
spreading or reflexed. Petals rather smaller, linear-lanceolate, acute, erect or spreading. 
Lip broadly oblong (when spread out), very shortly clawed, about 3 cm. in length and 
nearly as broad, convolute towards the base, strongly ciliate on the margins, the basal , 
portion white, the apical portion pale primrose-yellow and puberulous. Column with two 
horn-like processes at the apex. Mentum rounded. Anther puberulous, its lip toothed. 
Capsules sessile or nearly so. Lind]. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 12; Trans. Russ. Hort, 
Soc. 1861, 268, t. 52; Hegel Gartenfl. 1861, 158, t. 326; Williams Orch. Alb. vi, t. 
286; Veitch Man. Dendrob. 70, with fig. and var. gigantea 71; Hook. f. Fl, Br. Ind. 
v, 735. D. nobile var. pallidiflora Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5003. 
Dehra Dun at Nálapáni; and on the southern face of Budráj near Mussoorie, up to 
3,000 feet, Mackinnon (Duthie’s No. 25405); Garhwál, Falconer; in the Rámganga Valley, 
British Garhwál, Duthie No. 25841. Flowers in April. 
There has been considerable misconception in regard to the distribution of this species. Under 
D. crepidatum in the Fl. Br. Ind. v, 740, Sir Joseph Hooker remarks. “А specimen in Hort. Kew, 
marked ‘Garhwal, Falconer,’ is perhaps a cultivated one." This evidently refers to the two 
specimens of D. crepidatum glued down on the same sheet with Falconer’s specimens of D. primulinum, 
and all of them named D. cretaceum оп the Kew Distrib. ticket No. 1005 by Reichenbach f. 
subsequently. There is also on the same sheet an original ticket of Falconer’s referring to the specimens 
of D. primulinum, and bearing the manuscript name of * D. petrocarpum.’ Both D. primulinum and 
D. crepidatum were found by Falconer in Garhwál, and they were no doubt cultivated in the 
Saharanpur Garden, and sent thence to Kew under one name. The supposition that D. primulinum 
was ever found wild in Sikkim is probably an error. 
PLATE 98. Dendrobium primulinum Jindl.—Portion of plant,—of natural size, 1, а 
single flower; 2, ditto with sepals and petals removed ; 3, lip, fattened out; 4, column; 5, 
summit of column; 6, front view of anther; 7, side view of ditto; 8, pollinia;— 
all enlarged. 
5. DENDROBIUM PIERARDI Roxb. in Hook. Exot. Flora t. 9. 
Stems slender, pendulous, 6-12 dm. long. Leaves sessile, 5-10 cm. long and 92 to 56 
cm. broad, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, subacuminate, caducous. Flowers 3-4 cm. across, 
Any. Бот. Bor. Garb., Carc, Vor. IX. 
