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reddish purple ; sepals and petals sub-equal, oblong ; lip obovate-oblong, 



longer and broader than the petals, prolonged at the base into a 



slightly curved obtuse spur. 



Dendrobium cumulatum, Lindl. in Gard. Cliron. 1855, p. 756. Rchb. idem, 1868, 

 p. 6. Bot. Mag. t. 5703. 



This pretty Dendrobe first appeared in the collection of Mr. F. 



Coventry, at Shirley, near Southampton, in 1855, its native country 



being then unknown. Twelve years later it was sent to Kew, by 



Colonel Benson, from Moulmein, and also to our Chelsea Nursery, 



where, as well as at Kew, it flowered in the autumn of 1867. 



The specific name, cumulatum, "crowded," refers to the crowded 



corymbs of flowers. 



D. cymbidioides. 



Stachyobium — Speciosce. "Pseudo-bulbs ovate or oblong-ovate, angu- 

 late, bearing at the summit two oblong, obtuse coriaceous leaves longer 

 than the pseudo-bulbs. Peduncles terminal, from between the leaves, 

 erect, loosely racemose, 5 — 7 flowered. Flowers medium size, showy ; 

 sepals and petals uniform, linear-oblong, spreading, ochraceous yellow ; 

 lip much shorter, oblong-cordate, white with dark purple linear blotches 

 near the base, three-lobed, bearing on the disc tubercles arranged hi 

 two or three lines or series ; the side lobes short, incurved ; the ter- 

 minal lobe ovate-obtuse. Column short." — Botanical Magazine. 



Dendrobium cymbidioides, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 77 (1831). Bot. Mag. t. 

 4755 (1853). Desinotrichiutn cymbidioides, Bl. Bijdr. p. 355. 



A rare species, now seldom seen in gardens, discovered by the 



Dutch botanist, Blume, in the early part of the present century, on 



the wooded mountains of Salak, in Java; it was first introduced 



into British orchid collections by Messrs. Eollisson, of Tooting, 



about the year 1852. 



D. Dalhousieanum. 



Stachyobium — Speciosce. Stems terete, as thick as the little finger, 



3 — 4 feet long, but sometimes much shorter, spotted with purple when 



young. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 4 — 6 inches long, deciduous. Racemes 



produced from the uppermost joints, pendulous, 7 — 10 or more 



flowered. Flowers 4 — 5 inches across, pale nankeen-yellow veined and 



tinted with rose, and with a large maroon, purple blotch on each side 



of the lip near its base ; sepals lanceolate, the two lateral ones 



falcate ; petals ovate ; lip oval, concave, obscurely three-lobed, fringed 



and hairy on the anterior side. Column whitish. 



Dendrobium Dalhousieanum,* Paxt. Mag. But. XI. p. 145 (1844). Bot. Reg. 1846, 

 t. 10. Van Houtte's Fl. dcs Serres, VII. t. 698 (1851). Itlus. hort. 1864, t. 423. 

 Warner's Set. Orch. I. t. 22. 



* Dr. Wallich was probably the author, or at least the suggester of the name. 



