80 D- Prain — A new Indian Deudrobium. [No. 1, 
Peduncles puberulotiif '5 to I in. long. Bipe fruit oblong-ovoid, amootb, 
croTifued by the email circular calyx, '6 to '76 in. long when diy.^ 
Clarke m Hook. fil. Fl Br. Ind, II, 747. DaphniphyUopsis cnpUata, K tk 
For. FL I, 240 ; and in Joarn. As. Soc. 1875, Pt. II, 201, with fig. Ilex 
daphmphylhideSy Knrz in Jonrn. Aa. Soc 1870, Ft. II, 72, Agaihigan- 
tkes javanica, Blnme Bijd. 645; Miq. FL Ind, Bat. I. Pt. I. 839. CeraUh 
stachya arhorea^ Blunie Bijd. 644 ; Miq, l.c. 
FeruK ; at elevat, of 3,400 feet, Wray. — Distbib. Sumatra, Forbeg 
2880: Becmri{P.B.) 17,335; Java; Trop. Eastern Himalaya ; Khasia 
Hills. 
IV. — ■Novicim Indies XIX. A new Indian Dendrobium. — By D* PbAIK. 
[Received Fobruaiy 26th j Read March 6th, 1903.] 
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Among the Orchids tliat flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden, 
Calcutta, during 1901, one of the most beantiful was a Dendrohium that 
differs from any of the Indian species hitherto described. To be 
assured that the plant is in reality a preyiously unknown species i. 
drawing from life has been compared with the material aud drawings 
preserved in the great national collection at Eew. The following des- 
cription of the plant ia now therefore ofEered. 
Dendeobiijm REGiUM Frain ; cauUhus erootis parnm comprassis ; foliis 
oblongo-lanceolatis versus apicem oblique retueum vel incisnm aigus- 
tatis ; fisyrihtts 2-3 pednnculo brevi snbracemosis, peduncnlifl e caulis 
aphylli nodis orientibus ; sepalis lineari-oblongis obtuBis roseo-pnrpnreis 
lineis rnbro-purputeis notatis petalis elUpticis roBeo-purpureie lineis 
mbro-purpureis reticnlatis ; m&nio brevi lato ; labio litniformi aliqnAntnm 
angustato, limbo roseo-pnrpnreo lineis rabro-purpureisretieulato, glabro j 
tnbo pallide flavo. 
Hab. In pronnciis Hindustanise inferioribuB. 
Siefm 8-12 cm. long, 1-3 cm. thick ; nodes 3 cm. apart* Leawt 
8-40 otn. long, 1'5 cm. wide, tips distinctly obliquely notched. Peduncles 
2 cm. and pedicels 4 cm. long ; bracteoles ad pressed, lanceolate, under 
1 cm, long. Flowers 8 cm. across* magenta with darker lines and 
transverse markings ; mentum 1"25 cm. long j $epaU 1 cm. and petah 
275 cm. wide ; Up 4 cm, long. 
This apecikfl ta very nearly related to D. fiohih Lindl. bnt ie qnifca di'sfciiact from 
any of th© known varieties of that somewhat v&riftble spetieB. In the nearly uniform 
coloration of tbe aepala and petals (thongh not in the colonr itself ) it approach ea 
most cloaely the form of D. nohile diatingniahed and figured by Lindley, Bertum t. 
18, as D. coerulescens. That plant, however, h»8 a lip with purple throat flnd yellow 
marffin ^ the present upecioB hae a cream. colonred tub© and throat with a rongenta 
limb coloured and marked like the petals and sepala. The lip of D, r#jiitm 8, more 
over, narrower than in any form of D. nohile and is not pnbeocontr. 
