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Plate 134. 



DENDKOCHILUM GLUMACEUM. 



Olumaceons DendrocTiihm. 



Sepala et jpetala seqiiJ 

 concayum v. carinatum 



Lahellum integerrimum, sepalis sn1> 

 Columna brc^as, semiteres, anticc pro- 



cessulDUS duobns cornua referentibus, apice dentata v. rostrata. Pollinia 4, libera (g§),incum- 

 bentia.— Eerb^ svpra arhores vigentes^ foliis coriaceis in pseiidolidUs sa^fiiis solitariis. 



ncfe 



Sj filiformeSy muliifl 

 Blume), 



ifariam iwbri 



lanccoln 



petiolum (squamu 



lUl 



compre 



bilamellati 



orbicularis columna utrinque unidentat^ dente spiniformi elongato, apice bifido laclm.tto. 



^nmaceum 



Misc, V. 23 71. 58. Bot. Mag 



This and D filiforme are unquestionably among tlie most elegant and graceful of 



Orchideous plants, as well as among the most desirable for cultivation. The haves 



are ample for the size of the plant, sheathed below with large coloured scales, and the 



many spikes of ivory-white close-set distichous flowers, drooping from the extremity of 



a slender, almost filiform, curved stalk, cannot fail to attract attention. It is a native 



of the Philippines, and was imported by Mr. Cuming. It is readily grown in a hot, 



^ - - vPfir. It succeeds 



hest in a pot 



and produces its very fragrant flowers at all times of the 



Descr. Pseudohulhs crowded, forming dense, spreading masses, small, ^|^^ >"^^"?'' 

 ones fusiform, the older ones more inclining to ovate. The former are clothed niiu 

 two or more large, generally red, sheathing scales, within which is a much larger an 

 longer (three to four inches long) sheathing, subcylindrical, inflated scale, ta^vny, ana 

 tinged with red. Leaves solitary, broad-lanceolate, rather obtuse, striated, tapciing m 

 « ^or^^/oofstalk^ which is enclosed by the sheathing scale. Peduncle ansmg Horn tn 

 top of the pseudobulb, curved downwards, slender, filiform, sheathed below (a8^ti^ 

 petioles are), and bearing a graceful, pendent, elongated, linear-obloug sprhf ot cro , 

 distichous, white, sessile >tt;^r.. In a young state these spikes almost re^cmuic ^ 

 of PMidota, Bracteas lanceolate, convolute, white, at length tawny. ^'P"'^^. 

 ^^Uher smaller petals uniform, spreading, oblong, acuminate. Lip smai , ]} } 



