D. barbatulum is, however, a very variable plant, as a 
comparison of our figures 3, 4, and 5 shows ; and other forms 
are no doubt forthcoming. The Royal gardens are indebted 
to Mr. Woodrow, the able Curator of the Poona Botanic 
Gardens, for plants of the true JD. barbatulum, which 
flowered in March of the present year. It is a native of 
forests in the Concan and other mountains in the Western 
Peninsula of India, whence there are specimens in the 
Hookerian Herbarium from Heyne, Wight, Gibson, Law, 
Stocks, and Dalzell. It has long been in cultivation in Eng- 
land, and is well figured by Lindley in Pawton’s Magazine, 
as far as the woodcut is concerned. 
Descr. Sfems tufted, curved, suberect, rather stiff, about a 
foot long, terete from a swollen base, gradually tapering to a 
point ; joints about an inch apart, clothed with membranous 
sheaths. Leaves on the young shoots only, three to four 
inches long, by one-half to two-thirds of an inch broad, 
narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, deciduous. 
Racemes lateral, together with the graceful, almost filiform, 
slightly-curved peduncles four to ten inches long, many- 
flowered. Flowers secund, almost pure white, with a green 
spur; buds pale green, narrow, acuminate ; perianth spread- 
ing, one and a quarter to one and a half inches in diameter ;. 
pedicels one-quarter to one-half of an inch, slender. Sepals 
elliptic, acuminate or subobtuse. Pefa/s much narrower, 
gradually narrowed from the base to the acuminate or obtuse 
tip. ip about as large as the sepal; lateral lobes very 
small, ascending, acute, striated with pink; mid-lobe large, 
obovate-spathulate, acute, or obtuse, with an obscure. yellow 
villous spot at the very base, a short raised mesian ridge. 
Spur conical, straight, subacute, about half as long as the 
sepals. Column very short indeed. Anther hemispherical.— 
Fs DoiH. 
Fig. 1, Column base of lip and spur; 2, lip; 3, 4, and 5, varieties in me 
form of the flower :—all but 4 and 5 magnified. 
