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D E N D RO B I U M cucumerin u m . 
Cucumber Dendrobium. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orchidace,®, § Malaxideas. 
DENDROBIUM. Swartz. 
D. cucumerinum (W. MacLeay in lit t . Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 63.); 
nanum, intricatum, csespitosum, rarais brevissimis articulatis cylindra- 
ceis monophyllis, foliis oblongis teretibus seriatim tuberculatis, pedun- 
culis brevissimis trifloris, sepalis petalisque linearibus acuminatis obtusis, 
labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus triangularibus intermedio ovato crispato 
lamellis 5 undulatis in medio, clinandrio denticulato. 
A native of New Holland, whence it was sent to Messrs. 
Loddiges from Mr. W m. MacLeay. Of the locality for it in 
that country we are uninformed. It very much resembles a 
heap of little cucumbers, whence the name has been derived. 
Those bodies are apparently leaves, terminating, the short 
articulated stems : but they require further examination, for 
they may be of the nature of pseudobulbs. This, however, is 
a point our opportunities do not permit us to settle. 
The flowers appear from the base of the cucumbers in 
threes. They are dirty white, with long narrow sepals and 
petals striped with pink, and a three-lobed lip, whose middle 
division is crisped very much, and five wavy elevated ridges 
along its middle. 
Fig. 1. represents the inside of the lip; 2. the column; 
and 3. the pollen-masses. 
It is very much to be wished that the genus Dendrobium 
could be subdivided upon some such principles as have been 
lately applied to Maxillaria ; for it consists of plants having 
an extraordinary diversity of appearance ; and the New 
Hollanders in particular are quite a set apart. But we have 
sought in vain, up to the present time, to find good generic 
