102 MALAXIDEZ. 
Pirate 100. Dendrobium normale Fu/e.—Portions of leafy and flowering stems,—0f 
natural size. Fig. 1, single flower; 2, column; 5, ditto, with anther partially detached; +, 
anther; 5, pollinia ;—all enlarged. 
13. DENDROBIUM FIMBRIATUM Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 71. 
Stems suberect, 7*5 to 15 dm. long, tapering upwards from the base, sulcate, 
slightly thickened at the nodes. Zeaves 9 to 15 em. long, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 
narrowed to the base. acemes usually on the leafy stems, lateral, pendulous, 7-12- 
flowered, 15 to 20 cm. long, the peduncle with several sheathing bracts at the base. 
Flowers 5 to 7:5 ош. across, yellow; floral bract minute. Sepals broadly oblong, blunt, 
entire. Petals broader than: the sepals, their apices slightly emarginate, erose. Lip 
orbicular, with an undulate deeply fringed margin, the base shortly clawed. Column 
with its foot short and broad and with a suborbicular nectary near the base of the 
former. Anther obliquely and bluntly conical; pollinia compressed. Wall. Cat. 2001; 
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 83 (not 76); Paxt. Mag. ii, 172; Floral Cab. t. 109; 
Veitch Man. Dendrob. 42, with fig.; Walp. Ann. vi, 293; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 
v, 745; King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. vi, 58. Dendrobium sp. Griff. 
Notul. iii, 113. 
Near Lansdowne in British Garhwál, collected by Captain Roberts ; flowering in 
May. This plant was originally discovered in 1820 by Wallich, or by one of his 
collectors, on one of the outer ranges of the Nepal Himalaya. 
Var. ocuLATA Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4160. 
Flowers bright yellow, with a large round reddish-brown patch on the lip, Ш. 
Hortic. 1, t. 15; Warner Sel. Orch. ii, t. 19; Paxton КЇ, Gard. iii, t. 84; Jard. 
Fleur. 314; Hook. f, Fl. Br. Ind. v, 745; King & Pantl,l.c. 59, t. 82. D. Paztoni 
Paxt. Mag. vi, 169 (not of Lindl); Fl. des Serres vii, t. 725. 
Outer ranges of the Garhwál and Kumaon Himalaya up to 5,500 feet; Mus- 
soorie range, Vicary, Mackinnon and others; Kumaon, Strachey & Winterbottom 
No. 6. Flowers in April and May. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, 
Assam and Khasia Hills, Chittagong, Upper Burma, and also in Perak. In considera- 
tion of its much wider distribution it might very properly be regarded as the type 
instead of a variety of the so-called type. 
14. DENDROBIUM cHRYSANTHUM Wall. Cat. 2012. 
Stems pendulous, 6 to 9 dm. long, tapering towards the base and apex, dark 
green, clothed with scarious white-lined tubular sheaths. eaves 7:6 to 16-5 cm. long, 
and from 25 to 3:5 em. wide, lanceolate, acuminate, the base rounded and sheath- 
ing. Flowers 3'4 cm. in diam., rather fleshy, arranged in fascicles of 2 to 4 оп 
very short bracteolate peduncles from leafy or leafless stems. Sepals subequal, broadly 
ovate, obtuse, concave, keeled, fleshy, the lateral pair slightly falcate. Petals a little 
longer than the sepals, eoneave, ovate-orbicular, entire or minutely erose. Lip trans- 
versely ocbicular-oblong or reniform (when flattened out) concaye, tomentose towards 
the fimbriate margin, abruptly clawed at the base. Column broad, concave, the foot 
