, ;//>//,.] cxLViir. ORCniDE.E. (J. D, Hooker.) 741 



large, flowers 1-3 on a short peduncle from the leafless stems rose-purple 

 or white, lip with two maroon blotches, sepals oblong acuminate, petals 

 broadly elliptic, ruentum short obtuse, lip shortly clawed convolute with a 

 small ovate obtuse tomentose and ciliate recurved limb. Sot. Mag. t. 5488 ; 

 */<<>, hiff* Orclti'1. t. 39 ; Veitch Man. Dendrob. 68. 



UPPER BURMA, Berkeley. TEXASSERIM, Parish. 



Stems 6-12 in. ; internodes .\ -| in., when old contracted in the middle. Leaves 

 3-5 in., coriaceous. Viewers l-2 in. diain. ; pedicels lin.: bracts } in. ; limb of 

 lip small compared with the tube ; claw with a pit and transverse ridge. Column 

 white, anther purple. 



122. 1>. rhodopterygrium, IteiM.f. in Gard. Citron. 1875, i. 084: 

 stems terete decurved, leaves linear-oblong, bracts minute, flowers 1-3-nate 

 on a short peduncle from the leafless steins rose-purple, lip with pale border, 

 sepals oblong-lanceolate acute, petals ovate-lanceolate, lip with a cylindric 

 convolute base streaked with purple and an orbicular erosely ciliate mouth 

 rough or hispid on the disk. Veitch Man. Dendrob. 71. D. polyphlebium, 

 Beichb.f. I.e. 1887, i. 702 ; Warner Orchid. All. vii. t. 299. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Boxall, Berkeley. 



Habit, leaves aud inflorescence of D. Parishii, but bracts smaller, flowers much 

 larger, 3 inches in diameter, of a paler rose-purple, often mottled with white, and 

 lip with an oibicular mouth broadly or narrowly bordered wir.h pale yellow, no 

 maroon blotches, the disk not downy but rough, column white, anther purple. 

 Rricheubach suggests polyphlebium being a hybrid between Pierardi and rhodoj>tery~ 

 (I in in. 



123. D. Scortechini, Hook.f.\ stems long, leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 obliquely notched, flowers solitary or 2-nate on the leafing steins waxy 

 white, lip purple, peduncle stout, sepals lanceolate acuminate, petals 

 broadly elliptic acute erose, mentum large broadly conical obtuse, lip 

 rose-purple with a large ventricose tube and small acute limb tomen- 

 tose towards the recurved fimbriate margin on both surfaces and closely 

 veined. 



PERAK, Scortechini. 



S/ems a foot and more, as thick as a goose-quill ; internodes 1 in. Leaves 3 in., 

 coriaceous. Flowers on the leafless upper part of the leafing stems, 3-3^ in. diam. ; 

 pedicels with ovary 1 in. ; bracts small ; sepals clawed, sometimes rose-pink, lip 

 much deeper -cold. ; column short, "anther dark purple witli a 3 lobed top," Ic. 

 Scortechini. 



/3. Inter-node* swollen at the top (slightly in D. gratiosissimum). 



124. X>. pendulum, Ro.rl. Fl. Ind. iii. 484; stems stout decurveJ, 

 nodes subglobose, leaves linear-lanceolate, flowers 1-3-nate on the leafless 

 stems stoutly pedicelled white or tips purple, lip with yellow disk, sepals 

 linear-oblong subacute, petals much broader, mentum obscure, lip orbicular 

 subcordate pubescent ciliolate. D. crassinode, Bens, if Kelt-lib, f, in Gard. 

 Citron. 1869, 164; 1870, 417; 1875, 93 (var. albtflora); 1876, 567 (var. 

 Barberianti}; Jtvt. Mag. i. 5766; Warn. Orchid. Alb. iv. t. 152 ; Veitch 

 Man. Dendrob.3l,wit& fig. ? 1). polyantlnim, Wall. Cat. 2009; P Lhidl. 

 Gen, ft Sp : Orc/iid. 81 ; hi /inf. Reg. 1844, Misc. 57. D. Wardianum, Warner 

 Sel. Orchid. Ser. i. t. 19; D. meianophthalnium, Reicltb.f. in Gard. Chron. 

 1869. 164; 1870, 417. 



