1006 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Dendrobium. 
Stems sg erect, oblong or clavate-cy lindric ; ; leaves 2, ter- 
mi 
ae ae between the leaves ; mentum large, obtuse, incurved ; 
lip oblong or ovate- oblong, ais : rounded, crisped, terminal lobes 
flowers 1 in. long, w pronilum. 
Stems not or rarely ain. pendent or erect, slender or stout, 
terete or oe leaves more than. 2 soni) along the stem, char- 
taceous or coriaceous, persistent or dec ites 
Flowers a in short terminal racemes; stems slender, much- 
ranched; leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, chartaceous, very 
deciduous; mentum very short, rounded; lip very small, insite 
side-lobes narrow, tips obtuse, mid-lobe shorter, pes rugose 
flowers °3 in. long, yellow erbaceum. 
Flowers lateral on the stem, if terminal (D. formosum one 
large and showy; stems stout or slender, little branched, or usually 
not branching :— 
Stems with 2-3 internodes above the base much swollen into a 
fusiform, tuberous section, elsewhere slender, rigid, and polished ; 
leaves linear-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, subpersistent ; mentum 
Rite incurved, obtuse, longer than the lateral sepals; lip obcor- 
f arrow base, with rounded side-lobes and small 
ietea id-lobe ; ‘fio owers ‘5 in. long, solitary axillary, or on 
bracteate tubercles at the upper nodes, white with pink veins on 
the li 
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el podagraria. 
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Stems uniformly terete or clavate, or sometimes with the apices 
of each internode swollen, short or long, slender or stout, never 
much dilated as a fusiform tuber just above the 
lowers small, dingy yellow, with red dneaie on the lip, ‘3 in. 
long, crowde d on a short-sheathed peduncle ; mentum urceo- 
be: 
Vnenr-laneelate, coriaceous, obliquely 2-fid ; stems clavate or 
usiform bicameratum. — 
pa large and showy, in lateral, rarely (D. formosum some- 
times) terminal pairs essai or racemes, rarely soli 
entum never urceolate 
bates at least ails as wei as the dorsal sepal :—[p. 100 
Flowers from leafy stems very large, white, with yellow on 
the lip; mentum half as long as dorsal sepal ; lip obovate 
formosum 
entire 
Rincns from ledtiaws stems medium; sepals and petals 
greenish, sometimes pinkish near the tips; lip oblong 
