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•colour of the flowers is not deep but light pink, bright shining, The petals are 

 almost translucent. 



Nairne says that the flowers, in racemes, are " cream-coloured with some 

 :green." Not so ! The colour is distinctly rosy like that of Dendrobium 

 Fytcliianum, Bateman, found in Moulmein (Burma). 



There is a natural hybrid named Dendrohium barbatulo-clilorops, Rolfe, 

 between D. barbalulum, and D. shlorops mentioned by Williams (p. 326 op. cit.) 

 which would account for the confusion made as stated already in my foregoing 

 remarks on the colours of D. cMorops and D. barbalulum. There is yet 

 room for a fresh examination of the D. barbatulum from specimens either 

 fresh obtained, or examined in their natural condition. — K. R. K.] 



(c) Stems slender, excessively branched, flowers small, white. 



6. Dendrobium herbacbum, Lindl. Fl. Br. Inch, V., 719 ; D. 

 ramosissimum, Wight. Dalz, and Gibs., p. 261. 



A much branched plant, branches slender, pendulous, their lower 

 parts naked and shining, the upper with short sheaths, branchlets leafy, 

 leaves linear, lanceolate, soon falling, up to 2 inches long, racemes 

 terminal on the branchlets, very short, usually three-flowered, bracts 

 very small, flowers white with a greenish tinge, \ inch broad, sepals 

 and petals subequal, linear oblong obtuse, spur very short and rounded, 

 lip oblong, side lobes almost obsolete, granular, midlobe smooth, ovate. 



Distribution. — The Western Ghats and Konkan to Coorg ; Godaveri District 



and Parasnath in Behar. 



A common orchid at Mahableshwar. Flowers in the hot weather. 



Section III. — Endendrohrium. 



Stems tufted, flowers yellow or pink in short racemes or in pairs 

 from the joints of the leafless stems. 



7. Dendrobium macrostachyum, Lindl. Fl. Br. Ind., V., 785. 

 Stems 1 to 2 feet long, pendulous, slender, leaves thin, 3 to 4 



inches long, ovate oblong acute, racemes short, from leafless stems of 

 the previous year's growth, bracts small. Flowers 2 to 3 on moder- 

 ately long stalks, fragrant, 1 inch long, not spreading, sepals and 

 petals subequal, broadly lanceolate acute, yellow tinged with pink, 

 nerves greenish, lip convolute, obovate, disk strap-shaped, slightly 

 ribbed, limb with purple nerves and with thick soft hairs on its upper 

 surface and margins, spur formed by the united bases of the lateral 

 sepals, thiek, shortly funnel-shaped. 



Distribution. — Common on trees on the Belgaum and Kanara Ghats, also 

 recorded from Travancore and Ceylon. 



Flowers during the hot weather. 



