DENDROBIUM. 101 
tubular membranous sheaths. Raceme twice or three times as long as the peduncle, 
horizontal or decurved. Flowers four to six on each peduncle, rather distant, 5 to 7:5 
em. across; floral bract membranous, oblong, subacute, shorter than the slender pedi- 
celled ovary. Sepals oblong, obtuse or subacute. Petals broadly ovate, subacute. Lip 
narrowed to the convolute base; anterior portion expanded, concave, orbicular-reniform, 
its margins near the base slightly fimbriate; apex undulate; upper surface tomentose, 
Column and its foot short, the latter with a nectary near the base; mentum short. 
Lind]. in Рах. Fl. Gard. ii, 104, fig. 189; Bot. Mag. t. 6993; Reichb. f. in 
Walp. Ann. vi, 293; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 746; King & Pantl. іп Апп, Roy. 
Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 53, t. 60. 
Kumaon, Strachey & Winterbottom, Stewart; Gori Valley, Duthie No. 24096 ; 
flowering in May and June. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, the Khasia Hills, 
Upper Burma and China, but is not abundant anywhere, 
The flowers are dark yellow, and near the centre of the lip there is a large reddish-brown blotch, 
the edges of the lip being of a paler colour than the rest of the flower. 
19. DENDROBIUM NORMALE Falconer in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii, 196 (name only) ; 
Proc. Linn. Soc. 1 (1839), 14. 
Stems З to 4 dm. long, erect, terete, sulcate; internodes 2:5 to 35 еш. long. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 75 to 12°5 long, thin; sheaths tubular.  Fiowers 
6:5 сш. in diam., subracemose on a lateral peduncle, golden yellow, sweet-scented ; 
peduncle 2:5 to 3°5 cm. long, with tubular sheaths at the base; bracts embracing the 
slender ovary, about half its length. Sepals equal in length, their margins entire; 
dorsal acute, lateral obtuse or emarginate, all three mucronate just below the apex on 
the outside. Petals and lip similar and about as long as the sepals, but a little broader, 
their margins minutely serrulate except towards their bases Column short, rotundate, 
divided at the apex into six divisions, of which the larger ones are subobovate 
subcarinate, tooth-like and opposite the petals. Anther firm, with a slender filament 
(occasionally there are three anthers unequally developed, the largest being anticous). 
Pollinia 4, connate in pairs. Griff. Мой. 11, 225; Іс. Pl. As. t. 284; Lindl. in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. іп, 10; Royle Il. Him. Bot. 363; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 
v, 748. 
Mussoorie range, in shady ravines on the southern slopes, 3,000 to 6,000 feet 
Vicary, Falconer, Edgeworth, Mackinnon (Duthie’s Nos. 22707, 24157); British Garhwál 
near Paori, Т, Thomson, Flowers in June, 
This remarkable plant which, as Lindley pointed out, is no doubt a peloriate state or variety 
of some allied species, has given rise to much discussion as to the normal position of the supplementary 
anthers in the orchid family. Falconer, in his note published in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, 
vol. i, p. 14, says:—'*In my plant it is most distinctly evident both by а decurrent ridge on each 
filament and by transverse sections of the column at all heights down to its base, that the supple- 
mentary anthers have the same relative position as the usual fertile one, and in harmony with Lindley’s 
formule," It was suggested by Lindley that D. normale might prove to be а monstrous condition of 
D. fimbriatum, but the inflorescence of the former is more ike that of D. сіагаѓит, whilst the leaves 
almost exactly resemble those of D. chrysanthum. 
