DENDROBIUM. 



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along the sea-coast, where in stormy weather the plants must be 

 covered with sea spray. As in these islands there is rain during 

 eleven months of the year, this Dendrobe has practically no resting 

 season.* Colonel Benson observes f that in British Burmah he 

 had never seen D. forwosum growing at any elevation above the 

 plains worthy of notice, nor at any great distance from the sea. 

 On ascending the mountains more inland we come across its 



Dendrobium formosum. 



co-species D. Infundibulum, D. eburneum (Draconis), and D. Jame- 

 sianum, which in his opinion barely deserve a separate specific name. 

 The favourite habitat bf 1). formosum is on trees growing in a 

 laterite (brick-clay) soil ; it does not seek shady places beyond 

 what is given by the trees when in leaf. During the months of 

 February, March, and April, the plants are exposed to an atmo- 

 sphere of 43° C. (110° F.) in the shade, when the stems are much 

 reduced in size by the heat. 



D. fuscatum. 



Eudendrobium — CalostachycB. " Stems 2—3 feet long, nearly cylindric. 

 Leaves 4 — 6 inches long, sessile, ovate4anceolate, acuminate, deciduous. 

 Racemes drooping, with a zig-zag rachis, 6 — 15 flowered. Flowers 2 



* Major-General E. S. Berkeley, MS. t Gard. Chron. 1870, p. 763. 



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