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in February, 1868."* The specific name, from Xaaiog (lasios), 

 "hairy," and yAwo-o-a (glossa), "tongue," in orchidology "lip," 

 refers to the hairy appearance of the labellum. 



D. leucolophotum. 



Stachtobium — Speciosce. Stems stoutish, erect, 12 — 18 inches high, 

 pale cinereous -brown. Leaves not seen. Peduncles from one of the 

 uppermost joints, slender, nodding, 18 inches long, bearing a many- 

 flowered, one-sided raceme along its distal half. Flowers about an inch 

 in diameter, snow-white with the side lobes and base of lip pale 

 green ; sepals linear-oblong, apiculate, keeled behind ; petals much 

 broader, obovate, obtuse; lip produced at the base into a short, obtuse 

 spur, threedobed, the side lobes oblong, incurved, meeting at their 

 edges ; middle lobe narrowly oblong. Column greenish. 



Dendrobium leucolophoturu, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XVIII. (1882), p. 552. 

 Discovered by Curtis in the Malay Archipelago, locality not 

 known, and introduced by us in 1881 ; its chief recommendation is 

 its chaste white flowers that appear in November and December, 

 when few other Dendrobes are in bloom. The specific name, from 

 XevKog (leukos), "white," and \6<pog (lophos), "a tuft of long 

 hair," as the mane of a horse, is somewhat fanciful, but is 

 evidently intended to refer to the long one-sided racemes of white 

 flowers. 

 D. Linawianum. 



Eudexdrobium — -Fascicidafa. Stems erect, 12 — 18 inches long, clavate 



slightly compressed and two-angled, with joints 1 — 1| inches apart, the 



internodes pale yellowish green, and swollen below each joint. Leaves 



narrow-oblong, 3 inches long, obliquely emarginate, persistent two years. 



Flowers 2 inches in diameter, in fascicles of twos and threes from 



the uppermost joints, on pale purplish pedicels ; sepals ovate-oblong, the 



lateral two falcate ; petals ovate, as broad again as the sepals ; both 



sepals and petals rosy purple fading otf to white at the base ; bp 



small, ovate, convolute at base, reflexed at apex, obscurely three-lobed ; 



basal portion white with two purple spots on the disc, anterior portion 



wholly purple. 



Dendrobium Linawianum, Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 284 (1861). Williams' 

 Orch. Alb. III. t 141. D. moniliforme, Bot. Reg. t. 1314 (1830). Bot. Mag. t. 4153. 

 Paxt. Mag. Bot. III. t. 77. 



A native of China and Japan, whence it was introduced by the 



Horticultural Society of London in 1824, and twenty years later it 



was sent to the Royal Gardens at Keiv, by Dr. Wallich. No 



localities are recorded in which the plant has been gathered, nor 



* Bot. Mag. sub. t. 5825. 



