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DENDROBIUM cucullatum. 
Lady Banks's Dendrobium. ; 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, 
‘Nat. ord. ORCHIDER. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 1. 809. _ Sect. 
V. Monandre. Anthera terminalis, mobilis, operculiformis, decidua. | 
Pollinis masse cereacex, leaves. Parasitice, pauce Terrestres. Brown 
loc, cit. 330. me 
_ DENDROBIUM. Labellum ecalcaratum, articulatum cum apice pro- 
cessis unguiformis, cujus lateribus petala antica adnata, calcar emulantia. 
Masse pollinis 4, parallele. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 212. . 
Oxs. Genus forsan dividendum. Species enim labello postico (floribus 
resupinatis secund. Auct.) aliquantulum differunt structura anthere. Ad 
hanc phalangem feré omnes species Nove Hollandie pertinent, in quibus 
racemi oppositifolii, nec axillares vel vere terminales sed instar ramorum ex 
opposito lutere articult caulini orti. Brown prod, 1. 332. 
D. cucullatum, caulibus pendulis, foliis bifariis lanceolatis acuminatis, pe- 
dunculis oppositifoliis subbifloris, labello indiviso circumscriptione oyato 
basi cucullato. Brown MSS. 
We were favoured with this curious and handsome 
plant from the collection of Lady Banks at Springrove; 
where it is cultivated, like the other tropical parasites of 
that establishment, by being suspended in a wicker basket 
from the rafters of the hothouse; and, we believe, has 
never been known to have flowered any where else in this 
country. 
It is said to be in several collections, and-to have been 
generally conceived to be Denprospium Pierardi of the un- 
edited part of Roxburgh’s Flora Indica; and which, ac- 
cording to Mr. Brown, to whom, as in so many instances, 
we are indebted for all we have to say of the subject, it is 
possible it may really be; but finding by both figure and de- 
scription, the flowering stems of that species represented as 
leafless, the lamina of the labellum of an obovate form, and 
leaves as emarginate, while in the present plant the flower- 
ing stems are in full leaf, its labellum of an ovate outline, 
and its leaves taper-pointed, he has deemed it safer to re- 
gard the present sample as belonging to a distinct species. 
