94 MALAX IDEIE.
obractoate. Uaceme rather laxly flowered; floral hntcf liuear-lanceolate, equal to or
exceeding the stalked ovary. Flowers minute, palegreeu. Sepals elliptic-oblong, blunt,
reflexed. Pétala liuear, recurved, longer than the sepals. Lip quadrate, slightly
narrowed to the base, deeurved about the middle, the edges near the base with two
thickened processes; true calU none, the sides of the lip entire, apex broad, subtruncate,
slightly emarginate, minutely erose. Coltmii slightly curved, rather long, obscm'ely
•\Tinged, not thickened at the base. Hook, f. Fl, Br. Ind. v, 701; King & Pantl.
in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc., viii, 32, plate 43.
Gori Valley in Eastern Kuniaon, 2-3,000 feet, Duihie Nos. 5991, 24111; flowering
in August. It was subsequently found by Mr. Pantling in the Teesta Valley, Sikkim
Himalaya, at an elevation of 1,000 feet.
4. Dendrobium Swartz.
Epiphytal. Fseiido-hdbs short and iieshy or elongate and stem-like, usually tufted.
Leaves never plicate, usually sessile and with sheathing bases. Flowers solitary, or DI
fascicles or racennes, often large. Sepals subequal, the lateral pair obliquely adnate to tlio
foot of the column and forming with it a sac or mentuin. Lip sessile or clawed at the
base, adnate to and incumbent on the foot of the column; side lobes embi-acing the
column, or spreading, or absent; the terminal lobe broad or narrow, flat, convex,
concave or saccate; disk sometimes lamellate. Cohmn short, with a long or short foot
which usually has a nectar-secreting cavity at its extremity, the apex angled or
2-tootbed ; anther 2-celled. Follinia 4, equal in length, sometimes in free pairs but
usually all slightly coherent, ovoid or oblong, slightly compressed.—Species about 300,
ill Tropical Asia, Australasia and Polynesia.
§ 1. B r e v i f l o r e s . — - S / m s tufted, long, terete or clavate. Leaves membranous
persistent. Floxv&rs small, in short racemes or heads, yellow, often dingy; mmtuni large^
saccate; Up very short, deeply concave or urceolate, truncate or with short lobes.
1. D. himncratum.
§ 2. Stac]ayobiuw.~'Psewi?o-5«?is short, tufted, with 2 or 3 leaves, or stems
elongate and leafy. Leaves narrow, membranous, deciduous or persistent. Flowers in
slender terminal or lateral racemes, small or medium-sized, pale green or yellowish, or
white with red veins; menium rather long, conical, incurved, or short and obtuse;' Up
often with a flat keel on the disk terminating in a truncate crenate callus on the
mi d-lobe.
Racemes many-flowered, drooping g j) denudntu
Soape short, erect, 3—S-flowered alpeetre.
§ 3. E u d e n d r o b i u m . — Â i f i f i î S elongated, stout or slender, eylindric, clavate or
nodose. Leaves membranous or coriaceous, persistent or deciduous. Fbwm usually lar<^e
i n lateral pairs, fascicles or racemes, rarely solitary, variously coloured, white, yellow
or purple. '
DEKDROBIUM. ^
Lip not forming a pouch :—
Flowers pale yeUow, or white with yellow, lilao or purple markings :—
Posterior portion of lip convolute:—
Lip about as brood as long, without side lobes:—
Lip strongly ciliate on the margins, apical portion pnle
D. primMnum.
Lip minutely ciliate on the anterior margin, pale yellow witli
piu'ple radiating lines Pürardi.
Lip longer than broad, with convolute side lobes
Mentum swollen at the apes, bracts small, sepals obtuse . . 6. D. amcBnum.
Mentum conical, bracts large, sepals acute 7. D. transparens.
Lip conTolute throughout its length, pale yellow with reddishpurple
veins J). Gamblei.
Lip not convohite:—
Lip without side lobes crepUktum.
Lip with short erect side lobes 10. L. candidum.
Flowers large, yellow, often with purplish blotches on the lip:—
Petáis and hp not fimbriate on the margins, stems erect :—
Lip convolute at the base, and with a large purple blotch on
til® j)^ clavatum.
Lip not convolute; petals and lip all similar and coneolorous . 12. D. nórmale.
Petals and lip with fimbriate margins :
Stems erect:—
Lip concolorous D. fimlrialum.
Lip with a large patch of reddish-brown on the upper
iSifl)- B.finévialnm
var, mtlatu.
Stem pendulous, lip witli 2 large suborbieular spots of brownish- , D.
Lip iorming a distinct pouch, flowers dull yellow with orange or
reddish veins ^
1. DENDROBIUSI BICAMERATUM L i n d l , iu Bot. Reg. 1839, Miso. 85.
sum, ckvate or fasitorm, TÜ to 40 em. long. elliptic-oblong to olli„ticknceolatc,
3-6 to 7-Ö cm. long and 3 to 2-5 cm. broad; apex acntc, obliquely and minutely
bifid. Flow,,, about I cm. across, yellow marked with red, densely clustered on a
short rach.s and forming a capitate lateral or subterminal raceme Wi sheathing
the shortly stalked oyary. Dorsal , e f d broadly OTate-oblong; lateral pair triangular
all concave and subacute. Petal, broadly elliptic, obtuse, about as long as the sepals'
Lip small, fleshy, very concave, broadly triangular (when flattened out) and S-lobed'
side lobes triangular, acute, erect; terminal very short, truncate; the disk fleshy and
smooth. Column very short, with two large oblong nectar-secreting cells. Merdüm
urceolatc. Aniltsr fleshy. Saunder's Refug. Bot. t. 113; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v 729-
King & Pantl. in Ann. lioy. Bot. Gard. Calc. viü, 42, t. 56. J}. Lindl'
in > u r n . Linn. Soc. iii, 14. U, iulbojhmm Falc. Mss. ex Hook. f. in Tl Br Ind I r -'
Ic. Plant, t. 2028. ' ''
On the southern slopes of the outer ranges; below Mussoorie between 3,000 and
4,000 feet, MucUnmn, No. 31744; above Dehra Dun in Garhwal, Qmrnkk; Lansdowne in