2o6 ORCHIDS 



Dendrobiiim. 



twisted, as thick as the httle finger. Leaves lance-shaped, 4in. 

 long, deciduous. Flowers on the young leafy pseudo-bulbs, in 

 axillary racemes, usually four to six flowers on each ; these are 

 liin. across, waxy in texture, full, bright orange-yellow; the lip is 

 rounded and fringed. It blossoms in the autumn. Upper Burma, 

 1S2S. Syn. n. Fa.xtoiil. (B. R., t. 1299.) 



D. chrysotis (Rc/tb. /.). — A synonym of D. Ho.ikerianuni. 



D. chrysotoxum [LindL). — A richly-coloured and first-rate 

 species. Pseudo-bulbs club-shaped or spindle-shaped, furrowed, 

 6in. to i2in. long, bearing four apical leaves, each about 4in. in 

 length, leathery. Racemes produced from near the top of the 

 last-ripened pseudo-bulbs, each raceme Sin. long, arching, and 

 many-flowered ; flowers 2in. across, spreading : sepals and petals 

 nearly equal, rich golden-yellow : lip the same colour, deeper 

 in tVont, and streaked with red in the throat : margin fringed, 

 the upper surface pubescent. The blossoms are developed in 

 March and April. Burma. iS^;. B. M.. :. ;c;;.) 



A'ar. siiavissii/uim has s:cu;er jseuir-iulbs .md broader leaves 

 than the type: the flowers. :;:. ---:;- .-.r-jear in Tune, have a 

 large maroon blotch or. tr.e -;:. :-r_i .-.re sveer-scenred. 



D. Ccelogj'ne {Ry-.r. - . — Flj-^rs very large : sepals and 

 petals yellowish, mo:;!ri ~::!- re-i : seyals z'-y.n. long, acuminate; 

 petals narrower : lip ir~r i„l Turvie. r.ie side lobes narrow, 

 the mid -lobe trapeze -i-: "•■.■-;;. Le.ires broadly elliptic-oblong, 

 notched, 3in. to oin. 1;-;. "^r' :c"a:e<;i;i. Pseudo-bulbs very 

 stout, i-r.in. to 2in. lor.;. M;-;l— e:r. 1S04. 



D. crassinode .AV:.-. -^ — ?— _::Mrar.y a beautii'ul and 

 interesting species. li h.;s y-e;-..b-;\-.:; yseuio-biilbs, from ift. to 

 2ft. long, formed througlicu; cf ^" :.".;r. i-;i~oces in the I'orra 

 of depressed spheres, lin. in ci.".;v.e;er. ."."b. less :haa that apart. 

 Lea\-es narrow, 4in. long, decicucas. Fiowers in twos and 

 threes tVom the upper nodes of tiie "ast-ripened pseudo-bulbs, 

 each one 2^in. across : sepals and pera'.s e.yaa!, oblong, pointed, 

 white, with a blotch of amethyst at the tip ; lip spreading, 

 kidnev-shaped, lin. across, slightly frhiged, hairy on the upper 

 surface, yellow, zoned with white, ameihvst at the apex. It 

 blossoms Irom January to INIarch, Listing several weeks in 

 beautv. Moulmein, iSoS. (B. M., t. 5 7 00.> 



\'ar. Bar/'cridiiuin has flowers with much more purple colour 

 in them than in the type. 



D. crepidatum (Li/iJ/.). — A piretty and free-flowering plant, 

 with pseudo-bulbs ift. long, -^in. in diameter, striped with white. 



