DENDRO'BIUM MONILIFOR ME. 
~  NECKLACE-LIKE DENDROBIUM. 
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NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACEA, 
GYNANDROSE, agentes aes GYNANDRIA, 
OF MONANDRIA, 
LINDLEY. this tetite get OF LINNEUS. 
No, 194. 
GENUS. Dewnprosium. Swartz. Separa membranacea, erecta vel pa- 
ae a issin jet majoribus oliiaeis cum basi producté column connatis. 
Pet epalo supremo sepius majora, nunc minora, semper membranacea. 
A cum pede colnumne articulatum vel connatum, semper sessile, indi- 
visum vel trilobum, sepius membranaceum, nunc appendi NA 
semiteres, basi ree yet AnTHERA bilocularis. Poxtrnia 4, per p 
_ collateralia. Linp 
Ss ES. Secs MONILIFORME. (Swarrz.) Caulibus erectis ra- 
mosis, internodiis tumidis, foliis oblongis oblique emarginatis obtusis, floribus 
geminatis foliis longioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongis acutis venosis, labello 
Hat t formi. LInprey. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, DENDROBIUM. SEPALS membranous, 
erect or spreading, the lateral ones largest, oblique, adhering to the 
elongated base of the column. PETALS generally larger, but some- 
times smaller than the upper sepal, always membranaceous. Lip 
articulated or united with the base of the column, always sessile, undi- 
vided or three-lobed, generally membranaceous, sometimes furnished 
with an appendix. CoLumN semi-cylindrical, greatly prolonged at 
the base. ANTHER two-celled. POLLEN masses four, placed side by 
side in pairs. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, DENDROBIUM MONILIFORME. 
Stem erect, about two feet high, smooth, increasing in thickness to- 
wards the top, thence resembling a club, branched, furnished with 
joints or nodi, from each of which proceeds a leaf; the internodes, or 
spaces between the leaves, swollen, of a pale green. Leaves oblong, 
obliquely two-lobed at the apex, the base short, membranous, embrac- 
ing the stem. FLoweERs twin or geminate, borne on a common pedun- 
‘cle or foot-stalk longer than the leaves, which springs from the upper 
part of the stem ; the pedicels furnished with bracts, which are oblong, 
obtuse, membranous, slightly hairy. FLower of a delicate rose 
colour, marked with red veins. Sepats and Peraxs oblong, lip 
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