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Dendrobium.) ORCHIDACE 2%. 1005 
thickened and jointed at the base. Flowers small, in terminal 
racemes, resupinate or not. Sepals spreading or recurved, the 
to 
deflexed from the middle, sometimes concave, often with calli 
near the base. Column elongate, often arched, usually winged 
near the apex and tumid or dilated and compressed at the base. 
Anther terminal ; pollinia 4, waxy. 
Scape Ara ridged and fluted ; ridges several ............ bituberculata. 
Scape tr ous paradoxa 
2024. Lrparrs BITUBERCULATA Lindl.; F. B. I. v..696 
2025. Liparts parapoxa Reichb. f,; FB. 1 G07. 
E, Bengal, Mymensingh ; Chote Nagpur; Chittagong. 
A soft herb, stems 6-8 in. high. 
895. Dendrobium Swartz. 
Epiphytie herbs ; ae short and fleshy or elongated and 
stem-like, usually tufted; leaves sessile, never plicate, bases 
thing. Flowers solitar y or in fascicles or racemes, often large 
and showy. Sepals subequal, the lateral pair obliquely adnate to 
the foot of the column, and forming with it a sac or mentum. 
Petals usually like the sepals; lip sessile or clawed at the base, 
adnate to and incumbent on the foot of the column; side-lobes 
embracing the column, or spreading, or absent ; the terminal lobe 
broad or narrow, flat, convex, concave or saccate, its disk some- 
times lamellate. Column short, its foot long or short, with 
8 apex pues or 2-toothed. Anther 2-celled ; pollinia 
Leaves equitant, fleshy, distichous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute ; 
flowers axillar ry, very shortly pedicelled; mentum longer than the 
sep a; lip cuneate-oblong, obscurely 3-lobed, margins crisped ; flowers 
long, uniformly — ag 
cone never equitant nor flesh 
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