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DENDROBIUM  Pirrarpr. 
e Splendid Dendrobium. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nart. Orv. ORCHIDEZ. 
Gen. Cuar.—Labellum ecalcaratum, articulatum cum apice processus u- 
guiformis, cujus lateribus petala antica adnata, calcar emulantia. Masse 
pollinis 4, parallele.—Br. 
Dendrobium Pierardi; caulibus pendulis superne nudis foliis bifaris 
late lanceolatis, pedunculis sub-bifloris, labello indiviso tubiformi, ore 
dilatato obliquo, perianthii foliolis tribus exterioribus basi obtuse 
calcaratis. 
Dendrobium Pierardi, Roxsuren’s MSS. with a figure. 
Stems, in their native country, pendent from the trunks of trees, and reach- 
ing (according to Dr Caney: in a note which accompanied the indivi- 
duals sent by him to the Liverpool Garden in 1819,) to 6 feet in length, 
cylindrical, much branched, ik the branches ta’ g, fleshy and 
jointed, green, and each joint seems to be cov with a — pellu- 
cid, membranous sheath, marked with still more decidedly white lines, 
giving the whole an elegantly striated a ce. From atone parts 
a or attach themselves slightly to whatever may come in their way- 
leaves appear to be confined ‘to the lower parts of the*branches, 
springing from the joints, alternate, horizontal, bifarious, broadly lanceo- 
late, about 3 inches long, thick and succulent, dark green, w with longitu- 
dinal lines or nerves. 
From the * mag almost immediately above the termination of ves, ap- 
pear th , in a lax raceme, almost constantly in pis (in how 
rod 8 octaiionally i in really from short footstalks, alternate, bi- 
arious, large, and very handsome. : 
Leaft of the Perianth all nearly equal in — 5 superior ones 
e rose-colored and spreading, the three outermost narrow, lan- 
pasa : 
ral ones forming an obtuse pouch, which extends a quarter of an inch ; 
2 inner ones lange oblong faintly marked with lines. Labellum : 
lamcclocd 4 sith some oblique, bright purple nae near its base. 
e margins are ciliated, and for the greater part of >= 
curved and meet, s0 as to form a tube; the mouth, however, is m 
inthe lower edge, moveable, separating hori ly, and remaining at- 
3 united to a filiform ‘process, which runs § 8 groove on the 
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