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lanceolate -acute, white flushed with pale rosy mauve; petals much 



broader, rhomboid-orbicular, purplish mauve, with deeper veins and 



paler centre ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes rotund, curved upwards 



over the column, maroon-purple, sometimes paler towards the margin ; 



middle lobe oblong, apiculate, maroon-purple at the base, the free 



portion pale purple with deeper veins ; spur broad, compressed laterally, 



gibbous below. Column triquetral, white stained with purple. 



Dendrobium Pkalamopsis, Fitzgerald in Gard. Cliron. XIV. (1880), p. 38. Id. 

 Austral. Orch. I. part 6. Williams' Orch. Alb. IV. t. 187. Bot. Mag. t. 6817. 



This is a recent addition to the genus, but by whom it was 



discovered we do not find recorded. Mr. Fitzgerald, in his notice 



of this Dendrobe published in the Gardeners' Chronicle, loc cit, states 



that it was introduced into cultivation by Captain Broomfield, of 



Balmain, who procured it from North Australia and New Guinea; 



it has also been detected in Timor-Laut, a small island nearly 



equidistant from the north coast of Australia and the south-west 



coast of New Guinea. Dendrobium Phalcenojisis is unquestionably the 



finest of the Speciosce sub-section yet known, its nearest allies being 



D. swperbiens, D. bigibbum, and D. Macfarlanei, the last-named being 



scarcely inferior to it in the size and beauty of its flowers. It 



received its specific name from a fancied resemblance of its flowers 



to those of the Moth Orchids (Phalasnopsis) . 



D. Pierardi. 



Eudendrobium — Fasciculata. Stems slender, pendulous, 2—3 feet 

 long. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, the lowermost 4 — 5 inches long, gradually 

 smaller upwards, deciduous. Flowers 1 — 2 inches across, usually in pairs, 

 produced along the upper two-thirds of the leafless stems ; sepals and petals 

 semi-transparent, pale rosy mauve, the former linear-lanceolate, the latter 

 elliptic-oblong, acute ; lip broadly deltoid, obscurely three-lobed, pale 

 primrose-yellow, streaked with purple at the base, downy above ; spur 

 short, obtuse. Column white. 



Dendrobium Pierardi, Roxb. MS. (prior to 1814), Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orch. p. 79 



(1831). Bot. Mag. t. 2584 (1825). Bot. Beg. t. 1756. Van Houtte's Fl. des Serves, 



VIII. t. 955, var. latifolium. D. cucullatum, R. Br. in Bot. Reg. t. 548 (1821). 



Bot. Mag. t. 2242. Rchb. Walp. Ann. VI. p. 284. 



This is one of the commonest of the Dendrobes inhabiting the 

 countries bordering the north and north-east of the Bay of Bengal, 

 where it has an extensive range from north-east India, south- 

 wards to the plains and hills of British Burmah. It is par- 

 ticularly abundant in the Mangrove swamps of the Sunderbunds, 

 and scarcely less so at its southern limit in Moulmein ;* it also 

 * Colonel Benson, in Gard. Chron. 1870, p. 796. 



