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D. cariniferum. 



Eudendrobium— Formosa. A robust plant. Stems sub-cylindric, 6 — 9 

 inches long. Leaves narrowly oblong, 4 — 5 inches long, sessile, unequally 

 lobed at apex, deciduous. Flowers 1| inches across, solitary or in twos 

 and threes near the apex of the stems; sepals lanceolate, acute, pro- 

 minently keeled behind, pale fawn-yellow, fading to ivory-white ; petals 

 broader, ovate, white ; lip three-lobed, produced at the base into a 

 long obtuse spur, the side lobes triangular, turned inwards, reddish 

 orange; the middle lobe sub-quadrate, spreading, undulate, with tufts 

 of long woolly hairs along the veins on the upper surface, reddish 

 orange at the base, anterior part white, sometimes pale orange. Column 

 triquetral, white above, orange-red below. 



Dendrobium cariniferum, Rcbb. in Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 611. 



var.— Wattii. 



Leaves narrower, with nearly smooth sheaths. Flowers larger, white, 

 with parts of the lip yellow, the middle lobe of which is longer 

 than in the type, and two lobed. 



D. cariniferum Wattii, Bot. Mag. t. 6715. 

 A native of British Burmah, of whose first introduction we 

 find no record. It flowered for the first time in this country 

 in the collection of Mr. Marshall, at Enfield, in 1869. Major- 

 General E. S. Berkeley informs us that it occurs on the hills at a 

 considerable elevation, and under much the same conditions of 

 temperature, etc., as Dendrobium Infundibulum. The variety Wattii 

 is of more recent introduction, and is named after its discoverer, Dr. 

 Watt, who met with it " whilst attached to the mission engaged in 

 the boundary survey of the kingdom of Munipore on the eastern 

 frontier of British India." D, cariniferum usually flowers in April. The 

 specific name, " keel-bearing," refers to the prominently keeled sepals. 



D. chlorops. 



Stachyobium — Speciosce. Stems tufted, slender, 12 — 18 inches long. 

 Leaves not seen. Kacemes lateral or pseudo-terminal, nodding, 4 — 6 

 inches long, many-flowered. Flowers fragrant when first expanded, 

 § inch in diameter; sepals and petals cream-white, the former oblong- 

 lanceolate, the latter oval ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes sub-quadrate, 

 erect, greenish ; the middle lobe oblong, cream-white, with a pubescent 

 disc ; spur conic, short. Column greenish, anther white. 

 Dendrobium cblorops, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844, misc. 54. 

 Introduced by Messrs. Loddiges from Southern India about the 

 year 1843, and occasionally imported since with other Dendrobes 

 from the same region, where it is very abundant. The specific name, 



