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E< STERX TROPICAL HIMALAYA, Sikkim. BENGAL, in the Soonderbunde, and 

 southward to TENASSERIM. 



Stems 2-3 ft., smooth. Leaves 2-4 in., membranous. Flowers 1-2 in. diam., 

 translucent Var. I at if alia, Fl. des Serre?, t. 955, is a doubtful plant, a good deal 

 like D. primulinum in the flowers. 



VAR. cucullata ; flowers smaller 1 in. diam., pedicels shorter, lip with a longer 

 tubular base and short limb with incurved tip. D. cucullatum. Brown in Sot. Rrq. 

 t. 548 ; Sot. Mag. t. 2242 ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844, Misc. 49; Reichb. Fl. E.cot. 

 t. 65 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 284. Limodorum aphyllum, Boxb. Cor. PL i 34, t. 41; Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 462. Cymbidium aphyllum, Swartz in Nov. Act. Ups. vi. 73; Willd. Sp. PI. 

 iv. TOO. Sikkim Himalaya, J. D. H. ; Coromandel, Roxburgh. U\\\A\py refers Rox- 

 burgh's I*. apliyllum to I), am oe num. D. cucullatum is the earliest name for thu 

 species, but it applies to an obvious variety. 



115. D. crystallinum, Reich?), f. in Gard. Chron. 1868, 572; Xen . 

 Orchid, ii. 210, t. 193, f. 1 ; stems pendulous, leaves falcately lanceolate 

 acute, flowers 1-3-nate on a very short peduncle long-pedicelled white, tips 

 purple, lip orange, sepals oblong-lanceolate acute, petals much broader, 

 mentum short, lip shortly clawed suborbicular, disk puberulous, base 

 shortly convolute, anther elongate papillose. Bot. Mag. t. 6319 ; Veitch 

 Man. Dendro'). 34. 



HIMALAYA, alt. 3-5000 ft., J. D. H., Treutler. ARRACAX, Benson. 

 TENASSEKIM, at Muulmein, Parish. 



Stems 12-18 in.; internodes 1 in., terete, striate. Leaves 4-6 in., membranous. 

 Flowers 2 in. diam.; bracts ovate-lanceolate; pedicels 1-1 in.; lip with a pale 

 margin and ochreous base. Named from the remarkable anther. 



116. D. Bensoniae, Beichb.f. in Bot. Zeit. 1867, 230; stems stout, 

 leaves linear, flowers 1-3 on a short peduncle from the leafless stems (pale 

 yellow or white, lip yellow with 2 purple spots), bracts very small, sepals 

 linear-oblong obtuse, petals very large, mentum short, lip large shortly 

 clawed orbicular concave tomentose erose, base shortly convolute. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5679 ; Floral Mag. t. 355; Jennings Orchid, t. 32 ; Linden, iv. 

 t. 148; Orchidoph. 1886, 49, with fig. ; Veitch Man. Dendrob. 21, with fig. 



PEGU ; Rangoon, Kurz. ARRACAX, on the Kareen Hills. THNASSKBIM, at 

 Moulmeiu, Benson. 



Stems 1-3 ft., suberect or drooping, terete; internodes 1-1 i- in. Leaves 2-3 in., 

 tip notched. Flowers 2.\ in. diam. ; lip with a golden disk, purple spots sometimes 

 confluent, or obsolete. In Jennings' figure and Witch's Manual, the flowers are on 

 a very short peduncle ; in Bot. Mag. aud specimens from Rangoon, they are 2-3 

 racemose on peduncle |-1 in. 



117. D. aqueum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843, Misc. 6, t. 54; 1844, 

 53; in Journ. Linn. Sac. iii. 14; stems decumbent compressed, leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate acuminate, flowers 2-3-nate axillary cream-white, sepals 

 ovate subacute, petals obovate, mentum short incurved, lip sessile rhombic 

 pubescent erose, side lobes small incurved, midlobe broad triangular. 

 Bot. Mag. 4640; Jard. Fler. t. 262; Veitch Man. Dcndrol. 1H; Walp. 

 An-n.v\. 289. D. album, Wight Ic. t. 1645; Paxt. Fl. (Jard. ii. 175, fig. 

 226. 



DECCAN PKNINSULA ; on the Nilghiri and lyamalley Hills, Wight, &c. 

 Stems 10-20 in., subclavate, i in. diam. ; internodes .',-1 in. Leaves 3-5 in. 

 thin, wavy. Flowers 1.^-2 in. diam.; lip tuffused with pale yellow. 



