102 JÍALAXIDEá:.
Pl a t e 100. Dendrobium nórmale Fak.—Portions of leafy and flowering stems,—nf
nakiral size. i'ig. 1, single flower; 3, column ; 3, ditto, with anther partially detached; 4-,
anther ; 5, pollinia;—all enlarged.
13. DendrobiuxM i^MBRiATUM Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 71.
Stems suberect. 7*5 to 15 dm. long, tapering upwards from tlie base, sulcate^
slightly thickened at the nodes. Leaves 9 to 15 cm. long, oblong-lanceolate, acuniinate,
narrowed to the base. Racemes usually on the leafy, stems, lateral, pendulous, 7-12-
flowered, 15 to 20 cm. long, the peduncle with several sheathiug bracts at the base.
Flowers 5 to 7"5 C0i. across, yellow; floral hract minute. Sepals broadly oblong, blunt,
entire. Petals broader than the sepals, their apiccs slightly emarginato, erose. Zip
orbicular, with an undulate deeply friuged margin, the base shortly clawed. Column
with its foot short and broad and with a sub orbicular nectary near the base of the
fonuer. Anther obliquely and bluntly conical; pollinia compressed. Wall. Cat. 2001;
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 83 (not 76); Paxt. Mag. ii, 173; Floral Cab. t. 109;
Veitch Man. Dcndrob. 42, with fig.; Walp. Ann. vi, 293; Hook. f. FI, Br. Ind.
V. 745; King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. viii. 58. DendroUum sp. Griff.
Notul. iii, U3.
Near Lausdowiie in British Garhwál, collected by Captain Roberts ; flowering in
May. This plant was originally discovered in 1820 by "Wallich, or by one of his
collectors, on one of the outer ranges of the Nepal Himalaya.
Var. ocuLATA Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4160.
Flowers bright yellow, with a large round reddish-brown patch on the lip. 111.
Hortic. i, t. 1Ó; Warner Sel. Orch. ii, t. 19; Paxton Fl. Gard. iii, t. 84; Jard.
Flem-. 314; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 745; King & Pantl., 1. c. 59, t. 82. D. Paxtoni
Paxt. Mag. vi, 169 (not of Lindl); Fl. des Serres vii, t. 725.
Outer ranges of the Garhwál and Kumaon Himalaya up to 5,500 feet; Mussoorie
range, Vicary, Machinnon and others; Kumaon, Stracherj ^ Winterhottom
No. 6. Flowers in April and May. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan,
Assam and Khasia Hills, Chittagong, Upper Burma, and also in Perak. In consideration
of its much wider distribution it might very properly be regarded as the type
instead of a variety of the so-called typo.
14. Dendrobium cseysanthdm Wall. Cat. 2012.
Stems pendulous, 6 to 9 dm. long, tapering towards the base and apex, dark
green, clothed with scarious white-lined tubular sheaths. Leaves 7-6 to 16-5 cm. long,
and from 3-5 to 3-5 cm. wide, lanceolate, acuminate, the base rounded and sheathing.
'Flowers 3'4 cm. in diam., rather fleshy, arranged in fascicles of 3 to 4 on
very short bracteolate peduncles from leafy or leafless stems. Sepals subequal, broadly
ovate, obtuse, concave, keeled, fleshy, the lateral pair slightly falcate. Petals a little
longer than the sepals, concave, ovate-orbicular, entire or minutely erose. Zij? transversely
orbiculai--oblong or reniform (when flattened out), concave, tomentoso towards
the fimbriate margin, abruptly clawed at the base. Column broad, concave, the foot
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-With a transverse ridge towards the lower end, and a large nectary below it; sliyma
emarginato at the lower edge. Mejitum short and blunt. Anther 3-ridged on the
anterior surface; poUinia oblong. Capsule subovoid or pyriform, 3-5 to 5 cm. long.
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 80; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 8; in Bot. Reg. t. 1299;
Gartenfl. t. 446; Veitch Man. Dendrob. 28; Hook. f. Fl. Br Ind v 747- Kin«- &
Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 55, t. 77. D. Paxtoni Lindl.' in Bot.
Reg. 1839 (Misc. 56), Fl. des Serres vu, t. 725.
Garhwäl, D^ähie No. 25807; Kumaon, in the Ramganga Valley 4-5 000 feet
DidUe No. 3404; Gori Valley, Duthie No. 24095. Flowers during August and
September. It extends to Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, the Khasia Hills, Burma and
China.
The flowers are yellow, and the lip has two suborbicakr spots of brownish-purple.
15. Dendrobium moschatum Wall, in Don Prod. (1825), 34.
Sl^ns stout, erect, tufted, 9 to 18 dm. long, terete, striate. Leaves 7^5 to
15 cm long and 3 to 5 cm. broad, oblong ovate-oblong or lanceolate, acute or mimtely
and obliquely notched, slightly narrowed to the base. Racmes one or two from near
the apex of a leaflets or leafy stem, 2-3 to 3 dm. long, deflexed, laxly 8- to 16-
flowered; base of peduncle stout and covered with many sheathing imbricate bracts
Flov,ers 0 to 7-5 cm. across, usually dull yellow, tinged with pink, and with orauffe
or reddish vems; Jbral hract lanceolate. Sepals subequal, up to 5 cm. long oblont
dhptic, obtuse, sheathing. Petals larger- than the sepals, broadly ovate, obtuse L
shorter than the petals, forming a subglobular or pyriform open-mouthed pouch with
mcuiwed marpns outer surface and edges pubescent, often with two large brown sh
p^u•ple spots maide the cup. fc short and broad, tiie foot widening d o w n ^ da
1844, Misc. 37; ¡„ Linn. Soc. Bot. Mag. .. 3^37? p L . ' l g f
(excl. syn, ehvatum)-, Veitch Man. Dendrol. 61; Warner Orch Alh F TK- , \
Wa,p Ann. . . King . Pant,, in Ann.' I t 77j
f - f t " 7 , ,n Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 184; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch 83- Hook
t I iii sif'^Jh % • fig.;"""'
Kumaon, Str^ie, .y WintM,,, No. 9. Flowers daring the early part „1
the ramy season. It extends eastwards to Sikkim, Bhutan, A.sam, the Khasfa Hill
and Chittagong, also in Tenasserim. ".uasia Bills
S. Bulbophyllum Thenars,
Epiphytal; ^ » , , « - } , , » , from a creeping rhi.ome, rarely' none, ieav., solitary
hiek, persistent (deciduou, m or in pairs and thin and decidaous 71'
irem the rh.zome near the base of :the pseudo-bnlb, rarelv distant from it ' Fl