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broadly lanceolate, scarious, much shorter than the stalked ovary. Sepals subequai, 
lanceolate, acute. Petals about as long as the sepals, but ovate and not so acute. Liz 
as long as the sepals, broadly elliptic-obovate (when spread out), clawed; side lobes 
broad, erose, convolute, terminal suborbicular, undulate; the upper surface pubescent. 
Column with two horn-like processes at the apex, the foot narrowed and with a smal 
nectar-secreting cavity at its apex. Метит short, conical, obtuse. Lindl. Gen. and 
Spec. Orch. 79; Bot. Reg. 1844, Misc. 62; in Journ. Linn. бос. iiij 12; Bot. Mag. 
t. 4603; Paxt. Fl. Gard. i, 134, t. 27; Veitch Man. Dendrob. 81; Hook. f. Fl. Br, 
Ind. v, 738; King & РапП, in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 50, plate 70. 
D. Henshall: Reichb. f. in Bonplandia iii, 226. Dendrod. Griff. Notul. 198, Хо. 1135, 
p. 198. 
Kumaon, near Naini Tél, up to 3,000 feet; flowering in May. It extends eastwards 
to Nepal, Sikkim and the Khasia Hills. 
The flowers are white or pinkish, the lip is blotched with purple down the centre and has purple 
lines towards the base. 
8. DENDROBIUM GAMBLE: King & Раш. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi, part 2, 584, 
Stems pendulous, slender, 3-6 dm. long, with short scarious sheaths at the nodes. 
Leaves sessile, 3-8 cm. long and 1 to 25 cm. broad, subfaleately ^ ovate-lanceolate 
subacuminate, thick, caducous, veins obscure.  Peduncles solitary or in pairs from the 
nodes of the leafless stems; floral bracts very small, lanceolate, acuminate. Flower; 
1:5 em. across, inodorous. Sepals and petals about equal, lanceolate, acuminate, with 
reflexed tips, pale greenish-yellow, 5-nerved. Jip 1:9 cm, long, convolute throughout its 
entire length, the edges fimbriate-serrate except towards the base and at the very apex, 
subquadrate when flattened out, blunt at the apex and narrowing into a long claw at 
the base; upper surface with a broad grooved thickened band from base to apex, 
densely villous on its apical half; veins reddish-purple, bifurcating towards the margin 
Column 10 mm. long, its foot elongated and with a small ovate-lacerate nectary at it 
base. Mentum elongate, slightly curved and spur-like, Anther minutely papillose outside, 
its lip denticulate. 
Dehra Dun, Gamble, Mackinnon (Duthie’s Nos, 92983 and 24156); flowering from 
June to August. It has been found also on the Nilgiris by Mr. Proudlock. 
This species is nearly related to D. macrostachyum Lindl, but the peduncles of the latter are 
much branched, the lip is convolute at the base only and is not ciliate on the margins, the Save 
are membranous, and the flowers are scented. 
PLATE 99. Dendrobium Gamblei 
King & Pantl.—A plant,—of natural size. 1, 
side view of single flower; 2, 
side view .of lip; 3, lip flattened out; 4, column with 
ovary attached; 5, front view of column; 6, side view of ditto; 7, anther; 8, pollinia; 
—all enlarged, 
9. DENDROBIUM cREPIDATUM Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. i, 63, fig. 45, 
Stems pendulous, 1*5 to 4'5 dm, long, tapering to the base, striated green and 
white, covered when dry with the long scarious sheaths of fallen leaves. Leaves 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garn., Carc, Vor. IX. 
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