26 DENDROBIUM. 



D. canaliculatum. 



Stachyobium — Elatiores. Stems pseudo-bulbous, pear-shaped, 2 — 3 inches 

 long, bearing at the apex 3 — 5 fleshy linear-acute, almost semi-cylindric 

 leaves, twice as long as the stems. Peduncles rigid, erect, 12 — 15 

 inches high, terminating in a loose raceme of 12 — 20 flowers. Sepals 

 and petals similar and sub-equal, linear-oblong, white at the base, the 

 remainder yellow ; lip oblong, three-lobed, the lateral lobes angular ; 

 anterior lobe sub-orbicular, broader than long, apiculate, white with 

 mauve-purple disc, the basal part traversed longitudinally by three raised 

 undulate lines which terminate in three rhomboidal plates. 



Dendrobium canaliculatum, E. Br. Fl. Nor. Holl. p. 338 (1810). Kchb. Xen. 

 Orch. II. p. 165. Fitzgerald's Austral. Orch. I. part 4. Benth. Fl. Austral. VI. p. 282. 

 D. Tattonianum, Batera. Bot. Mag. t. 5537. 



Discovered by Banks and Solander in the beginning of the present 

 century, but not introduced till 1865, in which year it was redis- 

 covered by the late Mr. J. Gould Veitch, at Endeavour Creek, York 

 Peninsula, in North-east Australia; it has also been reported from 

 Rockingham Bay. Its most noticeable peculiarities are its pseudo- 

 bulbous stems, and its deep-coloured lip, in strong contrast to the 

 pale colours of the other segments ; its flowers are among the most 

 fragrant in the genus. 



D. capillipes 



Eudendrobium — Fasciculata. A dwarf tufted plant. Stems fusiform, 

 2 — 3 inches long, yellowish and striated when old. Leaves one or 

 ■two on each stem, lanceolate, acute. Flowers solitary or in pairs on 

 thread-like peduncles 3 inches long, golden yellow with a deeper 

 blotch on the lip ; sepals lanceolate, acute, small, the lateral two con- 

 cealed by the broad oval petals ; lip with a convolute claw and reniform 

 blade, which has a shallow sinus in the anterior margin. 



Dendrobium capillipes, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1867, p. 997. Id. Xen. Orch. 

 II. p. 164. 



A dwarf tufted species discovered by the Rev. C. Parish, in the 

 Moulmein district of British Burmah, and introduced by Messrs. Low 

 and Co. in 1866 ; its habitat is on the hills north of Thayetmyo, 

 and again still further north, growing chiefly on deciduous trees. 

 It should be grown on a block of wood suspended near the roof 

 glass, it then flowers freely in March and April. The specific name, 

 from capilla, " hair/' and pes, " a foot," refers to the hair-like foot- 

 stalks of the flowers. 



