204 ORCHIDS. 
2in. across, spreading; sepals and petals nearly equal, rich 
golden yellow; lip the same colour, deeper in front, and 
streaked with red in the throat, margin fringed, upper 
surface pubescent. The blossoms are developed in March 
and April. This species requires the same treatment as 
D. densiflorum. It is a native of Burmah, whence it was 
introduced in 1847. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 5053. 
Var. suavissimum has stouter pseudo-bulbs and broader 
leaves than the type; the flowers, too, which appear in 
June, have a large, maroon blotch on the lip, and are sweet- 
scented. 
D. crassinode.—A beautiful and structurally interesting 
species. It has pendulous pseudo-bulbs, from 1ft. to aft. 
long, formed throughout of swollen internodes in the form 
of depressed spheres, 1in. in diameter, and less than that 
apart. Leaves narrow, 4in. long, deciduous. Flowers in 
twos and threes from the upper nodes of the last-ripened 
pseudo-bulbs, each one 24in. across; sepals and petals 
equal, oblong, pointed, white, with a blotch of amethyst at 
the tip; lip spreading, kidney-shaped, rin. across, slightly 
fringed, hairy on the upper surface, yellow, zoned with 
white, amethyst at the apex. Introduced from Moulmein 
in 1868. It blossoms from January to March, lasting 
several weeks in beauty. The cultural requirements of 
this are exactly the same as those of D. Wardianum, 
to which it is closely allied. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 5766. 
Var. Barberianum has flowers with much more purple 
colour in them than in the type. 
There is a natural hybrid between D. crassinode and 
D. Wardianum, having characters intermediate between 
the two parents. 
