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generally producing flowers along the stem at the same time it 

 is making its growth. The colour of the flowers is a bright 

 yellow, with a dark red spot on the lip. It blossoms at difi*e- 

 rent times of the year, lasting two weeks in perfection, and 

 requiring the same treatment as D. Camhridgeaniim. 



D. chrysotis. — This plant resembles D. fimhriatum very 

 much in general appearance. It grows from three to four 

 feet high ; the stems are slender and rod-like ; leaves dark 

 green ; spikes slender, bearing five or six large flowers, which 

 measure upwards of two inches across ; sepals and petals 

 long and narrow, rich deep yellow ; lip large, of the same 

 colour as the petals, or of a deeper apricot yellow, having 

 two blotches of purplish-black towards the base, and deeply 

 fringed at the margins. A native of Assam. A fine specimen 

 was shown recently from Lord Londesborough's collection. 

 T. Jones, of Manchester, has also bloomed a fine plant. 



v. chrysotoxum. — An upright-growing plant, a foot or more 

 high, and evergreen. It produces its pale yellow flowers on a 

 spike from the top of the stem, blooms during the winter and 

 spring months, and lasts two or three weeks in flower. Of 

 this there are two varieties, one much better than the other : 

 pot and peat culture suits it best. Native of Moulmein. 



D. davatum. — A remarkably handsome evergreen species 

 from India ; grows two feet high, and produces spikes of 

 flower from the top of the stems ; colour bright yellow, with a 

 crimson spot in the centre of the lip. This is one of the 

 finest of the yellow kinds, and it continues in perfection three 

 or four weeks, thus making a fine exhibition plant. Pot cul- 

 ture in peat suits it best. 



D. crassinode. — A very fine and distinct species, with stout, 

 erect stems varying from six to eighteen inches in length, and 

 having large swollen or knotted joints or nodes, whence the 

 name. The flowers are stout and shining ; sepals and petals 



