D. Phalenopsis should be compared, but I have no means of 
doing this satisfactorily, for it has never been figured. 
According to Mr. Fitzgerald, D. Phalaenopsis was intro- 
duced into cultivation by Captain Broomfield, of Balmain 
in Queensland, who procured it in Northern Australia and 
New Guinea. The specimen figured by that author was, 
however, obtained near Cook Town in Queensland, which is 
in the Cape York Peninsula, and latitude 15° S., and where . 
it flowers in April. In Kew it flowered it September. 
The specimen here figured is one of the few botanical 
prizes secured to England by Mr. Forbes during his 
adventurous expedition to Timor-laut (see Journ. Geograph. 
Soe. vol. vi. p. 113). It is probably the handsome species 
alluded to in the Report of the Botany of his expedition at 
p. 371 of the Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. xxi., as 
found on trees in Lavat. This gives the species a wide 
range in distribution, and I can detect no difference between 
the Australian and Timor-laut plants, except in that Mr. 
Fitzgerald implies that the flowers are erect in his plant, 
whereas they are decidedly pendulous in ours, as in D 
Goldiei. 
Descr. Stems tufted, a foot to a foot and a half high, 
and nearly as thick as the little finger, rather compressed, 
furrowed, clothed with appressed pale sheaths. Leaves 
alternate, distichous, six to eight inches long, sessile, 
lanceolate, acuminate, dark green. Racemes pendulous, 
loosely six- to ten-flowered; peduncle and pedicels slender. 
Flowers two inches in diameter, perianth spreading, but not 
reflexed. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, very pale 
pink, nerves reticulate. Petals much larger, rhomboid- 
orbicular, acute, rose-red, contracted at the base. Lip 
narrow, dark purplish blood-red; lateral lobes rounded, 
incurved and meeting above, forming a cavernous hood, 
midlobe tongue-shaped, acute, with five to seven obscure 
rough ridges extending half-way from the lateral lobes to 
the tip; spur laterally compressed, straight, short obtuse, 
produced below into a hemispheric sac. Column very short, 
with two white calli at its base.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced figure of the whole plant; 2, column; 3, lip; 4, anther; 5, 
pollen :—al/ but fig. 1 enlarged, 
