1897.] G. King & R. Pantling — New Indo-Malayan Orchids. 605 



Jenhinsii) in the Calcutta Journal of Natural History, Vol. V, 367, t. 25. 

 This species, owing to the reduction of the genus Aporum to Dendro- 

 bium, was named in manuscript Dendrobium parciflorum by Reichenbach 

 filius, and under that name was published, without description, by Lindley 

 in the Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. Ill, (1859) p. 4 ; and this 

 name was adopted by Sir Joseph Hooker in the Flora of British India, 

 (Vol. V, 725). No specimen of this plant had been seen either by Lindley 

 or Hooker, and none existed in the Calcutta Herbarium until last year 

 when a living plant, collected by himself in Assam, was contributed 

 by Mr. Giessliere. Mr. Giessliere's plant was described and was figured 

 by Mr. Pantling, and the description is now published. 



The specific name Jenhinsii to which, as a member of a genus 

 reduced to Dendrobium, this plant has by the law of priority a secondary 

 claim, was given in 1839 by Wallich to D. Jenhinsii, a plant now usually 

 regarded as a form of D. aggregation, Roxb. ; and also by the late Dr. T. 

 Anderson to a plant which turned out to be D. cumulatum, Wall. 



Dendrobium parciflorum, Reichb. fil. MSS. ex Lindley in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. Ill, 4. Stems tufted, slightly flattened, 6 to 10 in. long and 

 *2 in. broad. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute or sub-acute, very fleshy, 

 1 to 1*75 in. long and '25 in. broad. Flowers white, single or in pairs 

 from the apex of the stems, 1*25 in. long ; floral bract minute, lanceo- 

 late, stalked ovary 1 in. long. Dorsal sepal ovate, oblong, blunt ; the 

 lateral pair much larger and broader ; mentum large, elongate, curved. 

 Petals about as long as the dorsal sepal, oblong, blunt. Lip oblong- 

 elliptic with a slightly expanded apex, not lobed, slightly narrowed to 

 the base ; the apex broad, crisped, divided into two lobules by a minute 

 triangular sinus ; the upper surface quite smooth, white but with a 

 yellow blotch near the apex. Column much shorter than its elongate 

 much-curved 3-furrowed foot ; mentum large, wide, curved in front. 

 Anther with an entire truncate lip. Hook. fil. El. Br. Ind. V, 725. 

 Aporum Jenhinsii, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V, 367, t. 25. 



Assam ; the exact locality unknown ; collected once about 1845 by 

 Griffith, and once in 1896 by Mr. Giessliere : flowered in the Calcutta 

 Bot. Garden. 



A species of the section Aporum, but with unusually large flowers 

 allied to D. terminale, Par. and Reichb. fil. 



