72 DENDROBIUM. 



Flowers 11 inches in diameter, solitary or in pairs from the upper- 

 most joints; dorsal sepal oblong, obtuse; lateral sepals triangular, sub- 

 acute ; petals like the dorsal sepal but narrower ; both sepals and petals 

 pale fawn-yellow ; lip sub-orbicular, three-lobed, the lateral lobes turned 

 upward towards the column, white streaked with rose ; the middle lobe 

 refiexed with undulate margin, and with a pubescent ridge down the 

 middle, fawn-yellow, paler towards the base. 



Dendrobium Ruckeri, Lindl. in Bot. Beg. 1843, t. 60. 

 This is a native of the Philippine Islands, said to have been 

 discovered by Cuming, and sent by him to Messrs. Loddiges in 

 1842. It is named after the late Mr. Sigismund Rucker, io whose 

 collection at West Hill, Wandsworth, it flowered for the first time 

 in this country soon after its introduction. 



D. sanguinolentum. 



Eudendrobium — Fasciculata. Stems pendulous, cylindric, as thick 



as an ordinary writing-pencil, 2 — 3 feet long, leafy throughout. Leaves 



elliptic-oblong, 3 inches long, persistent two or more years. Flowers 



1 inch in diameter in racemes of 3 — 5 from the uppermost joints ; 



sepals oval-oblong, pale amber-yellow with a small purple blotch at the 



apex ; petals obovate, obtuse, the basilar portion pale amber-yellow, the 



apical portion purple ; lip with a convolute claw, three-lobed, pale 



amber-yellow striated with red on the disc, and with a purple blotch 



at the apex, the side lobes rotund, the middle one emarginate ; spur 



broad, obtuse. 



Dendrobium sanguinolentum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 72. Id. 1843, t. 6. 

 Gard. Chron. 1843, p. 118. 



Sent from Ceylon, by Mr. Nightingale, to the Duke of Northum- 

 berland, in whose gardens at Syon House it flowered in 1842. It 

 is now seldom seen in the orchid collections of Great Britain. 



D. scabrilingue. 



Eudendrobium — Formosa. Stems erect, stoutish, slightly attenuated 



below, 9 — 12 inches high. Leaves oblong, obliquely two-lobed at the apex. 



Flowers about 1£ inches in diameter, in fascicles of twos and threes 



from the uppermost joints; sepals and petals similar and sub-equal, 



ovate-lanpeolate, ivory-white; lip three-lobed, the side lobes oblong, 



erect, yellow-given; the middle lobe oval-oblong, refiexed, yellow with 



5 — 7 orange-yellow sunk lines on the disc; spur small, conical. 



Dendrobium Bcabrilingue, Lindl. in Jour. Linn. Soc. III. p. 15(1858). D. hedyos- 

 i'">>", Batem. in Bot. Mag. t. 5515 (lS(i5). 1). albo-viride, Parish, MS. 



Discovered in 1849 in Moulmein, by Thomas Lobb, from whose 



dried specimens it was described by Dr. Lindley, in the Journal 



