24 DENDROBIUM. 



of the lip, where it is yellow and with two maroon spots near the base ; 



sepals and petals oblong, sub-acute, the petals a little the broadest ; 



lip sub-rhomboid, with denticulate margin, and clothed above with a 



short close-set pubescence. 



Dendrobium binoculare, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1862, p. 785.* 

 Sent to us from British Burmah, in 1868, by Colonel Benson, who 

 found it growing in shady places on hills eastward of Prome. Its 

 nearest ally is Dendrobium fuscatum, from which it is said to be dis- 

 tinguished by its more slender stems, smaller leaves and flowers, with 

 differently shaped lip. It is now but rarely seen in British col- 

 lections. The name binoculare (non-classical), refers to the two spots 

 or " eyes " on the labellum. 



D. Boxalli. 



Eudendrobium — Fasciculata. Stems slender, pendulous, 30 — 40 inches 



long, swollen at the joints. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, 3 — 4 inches 



long, deciduous. Flowers 2 J inches in diameter, on short purplish 



pedicels, usually in pairs, but sometimes solitary ; sepals and petals 



similar and sub-equal, linear-lanceolate, white, margined and tipped with 



pale mauve-purple ; lip sub-orbicular, rolled' up at the base, tawny yellow 



bordered with white and with a mauve-purple blotch at the anterior 



margin. 



Dendrobium Boxalli, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. I. (1874) p. 315. Id. Xen. Orch. II. 

 p. 212, t. 194. Fl. Mag. 1874, t. 114. Jennings' Orch. t. 19. 



Discovered by Boxall in the rich Dendrobe region of Lower 



Burmah, and sent by him to Messrs. Low and Co., of Clapton, in 1873. 



Its nearest allies are Dendrobium crystallinum and D. crassinode, from 



both of which it may be easily distinguished by its stems as well 



as by some structural differences in the flowers; from D. crystallinum 



by its swollen nodes, and from D. crassinode by its more slender 



and longer stems, with less prominent nodes, and by its paler 



flowers. It usually flowers in February and March. 



D. Brymerianum. 



Eudendrobium — Calostachyce. Stems stoutish, terete, 12 — 24 inches long, 



slightly swollen in the middle, tapering at both ends. Leaves lanceolate, 



acuminate, 4 — 5 inches long, persistent. Flowers 3 inches in diameter, 



solitary or in few-flowered racemes from the uppermost joints, golden 



yellow ; sepals and petals sub-equal, ovate-oblong ; lip triangular-cordate 



in outline, with a long flexuose, branched fimbriation ; disc papillose. 



Dendrobium Brymerianum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. IV. (1875), p. 323. Bot. Maa. 

 t. 6383. Fl. Mag. n s. t. 459. 



* See note under Dendrobium Gibsonii infra. 



