D. capillipes has been for many years in cultivation in 
the Orchid House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it 
flowers annually between April and July. 
Deser.—Pseudobulb erect, fusiformly clavate, about four 
inches long, by half an inch thick, of six to eight inter- 
nodes, clothed with pale membranous sheaths bordered 
with red-brown. Leaves five to six inches long, by about 
half an inch wide, acute, bright green. Peduncele lateral 
on the pseudobulb, very slender, erect, bearing two to four 
nodding flowers, and a few distant, small sheaths. Bracts 
lanceolate, half the length of the slender, decurved pedicel 
and ovary. Perianth about an inch in diameter, golden- 
yellow, segments spreading. Sepals linear-oblong, acute, 
shorter than the orbicular petals. Mentwm stout, about 
half as long as the sepals, conico-cylindric, obtuse. Lip 
nearly as large as the rest of the perianth, orbicular, 
emarginate, explanate, base narrowed into a very short 
_ claw, with an orange blotch at the base, or a few red 
‘streaks on each side, disk with a short, broad, thickened 
_Tidge at the base that ends posticously in a rounded knob 
over the claw. Anther mitriform, to te 
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