30 DENDROBIUM. 



obovate-oblong, as broad again as tlie sepals ; lip orbicular, with a 



convolute claw beneath which is a blunt spur, upper surface pubescent, 



margin fimbriate. 



Dendrobium cbrysotoxum, Lindl. in Bot.- Reg. 1847, t. 36. Bot. Mag. t. 5053. 

 Illus. hort. 1858, t. 164. 



var. — suavissimum. 



Stems frequently but not always shorter and stouter, and the leaves 



broader and shorter than in the type ; the lip with a large striated 



maroon blotch. 



D. cbrysotoxum suavissimum, supra. D. suavissimum, Rcbb. in Gard. Cbron. I. 

 (1874), p. 406. Id. Xen. Orch. III. p. 2, t. 202. The Garden, XIII. (1878), t. 116. 



Dendrobium chrysotoxum is widely distributed over the plains and 



mountains of Lower Burmah. On the Arracan Mountains, 150 miles 



west of Prome, and also on the mountains of Moulmein, it ascends 



to 2,500 — 3,000 feet above sea-level ; at its highest elevation the 



stems are compressed, and almost globose;* in the plains, especially 



in partial shade, they are elongated as described above. It was 



imported, in 1847, by Messrs. Henderson; it flowers in March and 



April. The variety was introduced by Messrs. Low and Co. from Upper 



Burmah, in 1874, through their collector Boxall; it usually flowers 



in June. The specific name, literally " The Golden Arch " (from 



y^pvcreoq, " golden," and t6%ov } "& bow"), is somewhat fanciful, and 



was evidently suggested by the arching racemes of yellow flowers. 



D. ciliatum. 



Stachyobium — Speciosce. Stems tufted, as thick as an ordinary 

 writing-pencil, 12 — 18 or more inches long. Leaves sessile, oval-oblong, 

 gradually narrowing upwards, 3 inches long, deciduous. Eacemes from 

 the young growths pseudo-terminal and lateral, as long as the stems, 

 many-flowered. Flowers 1 inch across ; sepals and ' petals pale yellow, 

 the former linear-oblong, the lateral two falcate ; the petals linear, 

 dilated at apex, longer than the dorsal sepal, with which they are 

 nearly parallel ; lip obscurely lobed, triangular, incurved at the sides, 

 deep yellow, streaked obliquely with red-brown from either side of the 

 trilamcllate disc ; anterior lobe small, triangular, fringed with yellow, 

 clavate cilia. Column triquetral, bent. 



Dendrobium ciliatuai, Parish, fide Bot. Mag. t. 5430. 



Sent from Moulmein to Messrs. Low and Co., in 1863, by the 



Eev. C. Parish. The flowers are peculiar both in form and colour, 



and appear in October and November. The specific name ciliatum 



(non-classical), from cilium, the eye-lash, refers to the fringed anterior 



* Colonel Benson, in Gard. Chron. 1870, p. 796. 



