DENDROBIUM. 



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lobe of the lip. Two forms are known, both with flowers exactly 

 alike, but extremely different in growth, the typical Dendrobium 

 ciliatum having stems 18 inches long, the other, called breve, having 

 short sharp-pointed stems but a few inches high. 



D. clavatum. 



Stachyobium — Speciosce. Stems tufted, cylindric, as thick as the 

 little finger, 20 — 30 inches long. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 3| — 4^ inches 

 long. Eacemes lateral from near the apex of the stems, few flowered. 

 Flowers 2 — 2 J inches in diameter, orange-yellow, except the lip, which 

 is bright yellow with a transverse maroon blotch ; sepals oval-oblong ; 

 petals oval, as broad again as the sepals ; lip with a convolute claw 

 and orbicular blade, pubescent on the upper surface, and denticulate at 

 the margin. 



Dendrobium clavatum, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. II. p. 108, t. 189. 

 First discovered by Dr. Wallich in Eastern Nepaul about the year 

 1827 — 28; it was introduced from the neighbouring province of 

 Assam, in 1851, by Mr. Thomas Denne, of Hythe, in Kent. As 

 distinguished from its near ally Dendrobium fimbriatum oculatum, the 

 flowers are smaller, more fleshy, glossy on the surface; the lip is 

 dentate, not fringed. It usually flowers in June. The specific name 

 clavatum, " shaped like a club/' refers to the form of the stems. 



D. crassinode. 



Eudendrobium — Fasciculota. Stems sub-pendulous, curved, 12 — 24 

 inches long, "formed throughout of swollen internodes in the form of 

 depressed spheres an inch in diameter and less than that apart." Leaves 



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Dendrobium crassinode. 



linear-lanceolate, 4 — 5 inches long, deciduous. Flowers 2 — 1\ inches in 

 diameter, solitary or in twos and threes from the upper nodes ; sepals 

 and petals similar, oblong, acute, white heavily tipped with mauve- 



