100 MALAXIDE Ж. 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 5—10 cm. long. Flowers 2 to 2:5 cm. across, solitary or 
two or three together on very short bracteate peduncles from the slightly swollen nodes 
of the leafless stems, white or pinkish, with a large yellow blotch on the lip; pedicels 
3'5 сш. long. Sepals subequal, broadly oblong, subobtuse. Petals not exceeding the 
sepals, broadly ovate. Lip broadly obovate, pubescent, the edges undulate; apex broad, 
often retuse; base narrowed to a short claw, with a short transverse ridge in front 
of it and a small pit behind. Column very short and broad; mentum short, obtuse, 
Anther very convex. Ovary long-peduncled, divergent, purple. Capsule clavate, 4 em. 
long. Bot. Mag. tt. 4993, 5011; Veitch Man. Dendrob. 33; Hook. f. Fl. Br, Ind. 
v, 740; King & Pantl in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 48, plate 66. D. 
Lawanum Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. іп, 10; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl, 261. Den- 
drochilum roseum Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. iv (1852), 291. 
Dehra Dun near Rajpur, W. Gollan (Duthies No. 25404); Garhwál, Falconer, In 
flower during May. It extends eastwards to Sikkim, Assam, the Khasia Hills and 
Upper Burma; it is also found in the Bombay Presidency and in S. India. 
The flowers of the Sikkim form are less attractive than those of the form found in Assam and 
on the Khasia Hills, and Sir George King has reason to believe that this species is usually self-fertile, 
and that it may represent а stage in the transition towards cleistogamy. 
10. DENDROBIUM canpipum Wall. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1838, 36; 1844, Misc. 32. 
Stems erect, slender, 1:5 to 3 dm. long, cylindric. Leaves 5 to 7:5 cm., narrowly 
lanceolate; apex obtuse, obliquely bifid. Peduncles with short hyaline sheaths, 1-3 
flowered, from the nodes of the leafless stems. Flowers white, 2°5 em. long. Sepals 
broadly lanceolate, obtuse or subacute. Petals like the sepals, but more acute, Lip 
as long as the sepals, oblong-lanceolate; the apex suddenly acute; side lobes rounded, 
incurved, the disk between them with an elongated callus. Column short, with а 
very broad and deeply excavated foot. Mentum short, broad and rounded.  Anther 
large, suborbicular, papillose. Paxt. Fl, Gard. i, 68, fig. 41; Walp. Ann. vi, 286; 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 735, in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard., Calc. v, part 1, 12, t. 19; 
King and Pantl. in Ann, Roy. Bot Сага; -Cale.--vin,--49;- €; 08. D. spathaceum 
Lind}. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 15; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 737. 
Garhwál near Tehri at about 5,000 feet, Mackinnon’s collector (Duthie’s No. 24155); 
Kumaon at 3,000 feet, Strachey & Winterbottom; flowering in April and May. It 
extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim and the Khasia Hills, 
With the exception of a yellow spot near the base of the lip the flowers are ite whic In 
other respects it closely resembles D. атепит. 
11. DENDROBIUM cLAVATUM Wall. Cat, 2004. 
Stems stout, slightly clavate, 45 to 7-5 dm. long, the leaf-bearing ones smooth, 
the leafless suleate. Leaves 9 to 12 сш. long, narrowly oblong, coriaceous, the apex 
blunt or subacute, slightly notched. Peduncle 5 to 75 cm. long, bearing many 
