The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Dendrochilum

(from dendron, a tree, and cheilos, a lip; in allusion to the plant having lipped flowers and growing as an epiphyte on trees). ORD. Orchideae. A small genus of two or three species of stove Orchids, with long pendulous racemes of rather in-conspicuous yellowish flowers, and narrow, one-leaved pseudo-bulbs. The two species which have been in cultivation are D. aurantiacum and D. pallidiflavens.

D. Cobbianum. See Platyclinis Cobbiana.

D. filiforme. See Platyclinis filiformis.

D. glumaceum. See Platyclinis glumacea.

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