Denprosium.] | ORCHIDACES. 187 
1. D. bicameratum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. (1839), Misc. 85; 
F. B. I. V, 729; K. & P. Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc., viii, 42, t. 56 ; 
Duthie id. ix, part 2, 95 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1,009. D. brevifloruam 
Lindl.? D. bulbiflorum, Fale. mss. in F. B. I. l. c. ; Ic. Pl. t. 2028. 
Stems 12-18 in. long, clavate or fusiform. Leaves coriaceous, 3-4 in. 
long, linear-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, obliquely and minutely 2-fid. 
at the apex. Flowers about } in. across, dingy-yellow speckled with 
stripes of red, densely crowded on a short sheathed peduncle ; flower- 
ing bract sheathing the shortly stalked ovary. Dorsal sepal ovate- 
oblong, subacute ; lateral pair triangular, concave, subacute. Petals 
about as long as the sepals, broadly elliptic, obtuse. Lip fleshy, 
concave, 3-lobed ; side lobes small, erect, triangular, acute ; mid-lobe 
very short, truncate, the disk fleshy and smooth. Column very 
short, with two large oblong nectar-secreting cells. Mentwm urceo- 
late. Anther fleshy. 
Dehra Dun (Gollan, Gamble). Flowers in Aug. Distris.: Outer 
Himalayan ranges of Garhwal and Kumaon, up to about 4,000 ft., 
and eastwards to Sikkim, the Khasia Hills, and Burma; it occurs 
also on Parasnath in Behar. 
2. D. primulinum, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. (1858) 223 ; Journ. 
Linn. Soc. iii, 12; F. B. I. v, 785; Duthie in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. 
Calc. ix, pt. 2, 97, t. 98. 
Stems 10-12 in. long, pendulous. Leaves about 4 in. long, broadly 
oblong, coriaceous, the upper ones smaller. Flowers solitary from 
the nodes of the leafless stems, shortly pedicelled, 2} in. across ; 
floral bracts minute, emarginate. Sepals and petals white, or tinged 
with pink or pale-blue. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 
spreading or reflexed. Petals smaller, linear-lanceolate, acute, erect 
or spreading. Lip broadly oblong (when spread flat), very shortly 
clawed, about 1} in. long and nearly as broad, convolute towards the 
base, with a broad central lamellate band, margins strongly ciliate ; 
basal portion white; apical portion pale primrose-yellow, puberu- 
lous ; mentum rounded. Column produced into a rather long foot 
and with 2 horn-like processes at the apex, pale-blue. . Anther 
puberulous, its lip toothed. 
Dehra Dun, at Nélapini (Gamble). Flowers in April. D1sTRIs. 
Outer Himalayan ranges of Garhwal up to about 3,000 ft. There 
has been some confusion in regard to the distribution of this species. 
Under D. crepidatum in the Fl. Brit. Ind. V, 740 Sir Joseph Hooker 
remarks. “ A specimen in Herb. Kew, marked ‘ Garhwal, Falconer’ 
