drawing of it which I possess, made by a native artist, the stems 
are figured as thick as the little finger, and the numerous 
racemes are only 3-4-flowered, but each flower is upwards of 
four inches in diameter. It is very closely allied to D. 
fimbriatum, Wall. a native of the adjoining province of Nipal, 
but differs in the much larger size, in flowering on the leafy 
stems, in the quite entire (not toothed) margins of the sepals 
and petals, andin the double blotch on the lip. 
Duscr. Stems tufted, two to three feet long, grooved, green 
or purplish. eaves distichous, three to five inches long, 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, recurved. Racemes borne on 
the leafing stems, shortly peduncled, 3—-9-flowered, spreading ; 
peduncle and pedicels slender, green ; bracts small, appressed. 
Ovary slender. Perianth three to four inches in diameter, 
golden-yellow, with two red-purple blotches on the disk of 
the hp. Sepals and petals equal and similar, spreading, 
oblong, acute, margins quite entire. Zip with a convolute 
claw and almost circular or more or less ovate or cordate 
repanded limb, which is velvetty on the surface and deeply 
cut along the edge into equal and equidistant bearded fringes 
nearly half an inch long ; callus oblong, adnate to the clavy 
and concealed by its convolute margins; mentum conical, 
rounded at the apex.—J. D. H. 
