date of its flowering nor the provenance of his plant has 

 been recorded. In Europe it appears to have been lost 

 s : ght of until 1868 when the species was figured by the 

 late Professor Regel as D. Farrneri album from a plant 

 introduced from Moulmein by Messrs. Hugh Low and 

 Company. Subsequently it is known to have been 

 obtained from Moulmein by Major-General E. Berkeley 

 and Mr. G. M. Peche and perhaps others, but in India, 

 at least, its identity was not ascertained : Jerdon's plant 

 was believed to be a form of D. densiflorum, Watt. ; that 

 of Anderson was supposed to be D. Gr/fithianum, Lindl. ; 

 Peche's plant was identified with D. Farmerii, Paxt. 

 The confusion was increased by the publication of a 

 figure of a Sikkim form of D. Farmerii by Sir J. D. 

 Hooker (Ann. E,oy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, vol. v. p. 14, 

 t. 22), under the name D. Palpebrae, in 1895, and although 

 this identification was corrected by Sir G. King and 

 Mr. Pantling in 1898 (I.e. vol. viii. p. 57), the position 

 of the true D. Palpebrae, Lindl., was left somewhat 

 obscure. The plant from which our figure has been 

 prepared is one that has been long in cultivation at Kew, 

 where it thrives well in a tropical house under the 

 conditions suitable for D. demiflorum, D. thyrs fftorum 

 and other nearly related species. Its precise origin is 

 unknown. 



Description.— Herb, epiphytic, 6-8 in. high ; pseudo- 

 bulbs clustered, elongated, rather slender, sulcate. clothed 

 with membranous sheaths, each with 2-3 subterminal 

 leaves. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, acute, 3-4 in. long, 

 4 1:, in. wide. Racemes suberect, 3-4 in. long, many- 

 flowered; bracts narrow-oblong, about J in. long; 

 pedicels f-f in. long. Flowers showy, white, the lip with 

 a yellow or orange disk. Sepals elliptic -oblong, over 

 ^ in. long. Petals ovate-elliptic, wider than the sepals. 

 Lip short-clawed, ovate-orbicular, somewhat acute, 

 pubescent at the base, with a markedly ciliate margin. 

 Column broad, short ; pollinia as in the genus. 



a Zlfr 1, SP' . sbowin B the fringe; 2, column, with its foot; 3, anther-cap ; 

 4 and o, poUinia, seen from in front and from behind :-all enlarged. 



