Plate 129. 



DENDROBIUM CREPIDATUM. 



Slippefed Bendrohium. 



Gen, Char. [Vide supra^ Plate 105.) 



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Dendrobium cre^iciaf ztm ; caulibus elongatis erectis teretibus striatisj foliis oblongis acutis <;nb- 

 coriaceiSj floribus geminisj sepalis oblongis obtusis^ petalis orbicul an -oblongis, labc'llo cordi- 

 formi-rotundato integro subsinuato obtuso retusove lateribns erectis iiitns pubescente vcn*tvo 

 basi utrinque plicato^ cornu brevi obtuso. 



Dekdrobium crepidatum. Lindl. in Paxton^s Fl. Gard. v. I; Gleanings^ n, 09,/ Po {iroodruf of 

 flower only) . 



This is a very lovely plant, recently (April 1857) communicated in n fine flowering 

 state by Mr. Parker, of the Nursery, Hornsey. It is a native of India, prohahly of 



Ac,>ani or Khasya Hills, in Eastern Bengal. Dr. Lindlcy, in naming and definin 

 as he has done in the work above quoted, takes the opportunity of mentioning its 

 affinity with D. Pierardi and its allies ; but it has a firmer texture in the sepals, petals, 

 nnd labcllum than any of these. He has since also alluded to a great regenililanrc 

 with B. cretaceum (see Bot. Mag., tab. 4686), and like it the laheHum in our plant is 

 found to be emarginate or retuse at the point ; but the flowers are much larger and 

 more deeply tinged with pink and orange-yellow, wanting the cold chalky appcuraiicc 

 of that species: the ovaries and pedicels too arc longer and red It first bloomed 

 ^vith Mr. Holford in 1850. Like B. Pierardi, it flowers in early spring, and like that 

 species requires a season of rest. 



Descr. Stems six to eight inches to a foot and more long, firm, subercct, terete, 

 •striated, branching only at the very base, jointed, with the remains of a sheatliing scale 

 «t the joints. Leaus few, and only upon the young and flowcrlrss branch* -^. Fovurs 

 large, white, tipped wdth blush, orange-yellow in the centre of the lip, arising from 

 the joints of the naked (leafless) stems, generally in pairs. PfdkeU and slender ovarir'^ 

 'ather long, red. Sepals spreading, oblong, obtuse. Prfals similar to them, but 

 broader and subrotund, also spreading. Lip nearly cordate, contrartrd into a clan- nt 

 thr* base, entire, scarcely, or but very obscurely, three-lobcd, obtuse or retu^o at the 

 point, plaited on each side at the base, forming a slipper-like cavity : the inner or tipp' r 



