Described from several living and dried specimens : the drawing 

 made from a plant sent from the neighbourhood of Worcester. 

 Colour of the sepals dull white, passing at the back of the galea 

 and the tips of the side sepals into brown-purple, petals pale 

 yellow in front with purple points, lip pale yellow. In habit this 

 resembles D. caulescent, Lindley (see t. 31 in the first part of this 

 work) and in the dried state might be taken for it, but the floral 

 characters are abundantly diverse. Small and laxly-flowered 

 specimens might be confused with D. ocellata, mild; but the 

 leaves of the latter are narrower and erect, and the galea is 

 oblong and acuminate. While most of our Orchids love a light 

 or even sandy soil, this seems generally to prefer a stiff greyish 

 clay. It is by no means a common species, and I cannot avoid 

 a suspicion as to the correctness of the single widely isolated 

 eastern station quoted from Cooper's ticket. 



