DENDRO’BIUM MOSCHA’TUM. 
“ MUSK-SCENTED DENDROBIUM. 
ENDOGENZA, oR ¢ MONOCOTYLEDONES. 
Netural division 
to which eae 
this Plant belongs 
NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACE, 
GYNANDROS&, Artificial divisions GYNANDRIA, 
OF to which ow tieence 
LINDLEY. this Plant belongs F LINNEU 
No. 37. 
GENUS. Denprosium. See No. 5, 
SER CIEE: _DExpaostom MOSCHATUM. _Watticu. _Caulibus ‘ttle. 
follis elliptic flori: s, bracteis b re 
vibus ere te Re obtusis, i oblongis retusis latioribus obsolete tossellatis, 
labello unguiculato cochleariformi obtusissime extus villoso. 
DEscRIPTION OF THE SpEcrEs, D MOSCHATUM. Roots 
numerous, attached to branches of trees, consisting of simple waved 
and stout fleshy fibres. Stem of the thickness of the little finger, as- 
cending from a span to a foot or more in length, cylindrical, jointed, 
striated, having towards the top alternate distichous, spreading, vagin- 
ating, lanceolate, entire, obtuse, shining leaves; from the lower part of 
the stem springs the raceme, bearing 5 large, handsome, tawny orange 
or buff-coloured flow PepuncLe 6-8 inches long, jointed, with 
several sheathing se t the base. Bracrs, striated, at the base of 
each pedicel, short, oblc ong; stan FLowers when fully expanded, 
which they are only wh them, from 24 to 3inches 
wide. Sepats oblong obtuse spreading, peologeed at the base; petals 
oblong retuse, broader than the sepals; both sepals and petals ob- 
scurely tesselated. Lip erect, jointed upon the prolonged base of the 
column, and doubled upon it, large, extremely ventricose, resembling 
a Cypripedium, of a deeper colour than the sepals or petals, hairy with- 
out, inner surface darker than the outer, marked on each side with a 
blood-red spot. Coxumn very short, of a pale colour, except at the 
margin which is red, greater part of its length united with the perianth, 
much prolonged down the front of the ovary. Frtamenr of the sta- 
men very short; anther deep purple, attached by a filamentous process 
to the top of the column, 2-celled, each cell having a dissepiment, and 
containing two double pollen-masses, of an oblong shape approxima- 
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