DendroHum.'] CXLVIII. ORCIIIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 74i> 



128. D. gratiosissimum, Eeichb. f. in Hot. Zeit. 1865, 99; Xen. 

 Orchid, ii. 211, t. 193 ; stems slender pendulous striate, leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate acute, flowers 1-2 ou a short peduncle from the leafless stems 

 long-pedicelled white with purple tips or purplish, disk of lip yellow, sepals 

 oblong-lanceolate acute, petals broader, mentuni short conical, lip orbicular 

 or broadly ovate from a broad cuneate base entire undulate glabrous. 

 Veitch Man. Dendrob. 47. D. Bullerianum, Ba*em. in Bot. J/y. t. 5652. 

 D. Boxalli, Eeichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1874, 315; Xen. Orchid, ii. 212, 

 t. 194; Floral Mag. 1874, t. 114; Jennings Orchid, t. 1.9; Veitch I.e. 

 24. 



TENASSEBIM; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Stems 1-3 ft. ; internodes 1-1| in., slightly swollen upwards; sheaths purplish. 

 Leaves 3-4 in. Flowers 2% in. diam. ; pedicels 1 in. ; bracts small ; lip white with 

 a large circular golden disk, sometimes purple-spotted or -striated. In Veitch's 

 Manual the sepals and petals of D. Boxalli are described as equal and similar, but 

 I find the petals to be much the broadest. In that work D. g ratios issimum and 

 Boxalli are kept distinct, and D. Bullerianum referred to the latter. They all 

 appear to me to be like forms of one species. 



129. D. Aphrodite, ReicU.f. in Bot. Zeit. 1862, 246; stems branched, 

 internodes long clavate, leaves line-tr-oblong subacat 1 , flowers solitary 'on 

 the leafless stems stoutly pedicelled |.ale primrose or white, lip orange and 

 purple, sepals linear-oblong obtuse, petals ovate-oblong, mentum obscure, 

 lip shortly clawed orbicular-ovate from a short convolute base pubescent 

 entire, anther purple. Veitch Man. Dendrob. 17. D. nodatum, Lindl. in 

 Gard. Chron. 1862, 177; But. Mag. t. 5470; Fl-or. des Serres, t. 1582. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Stem 1-2 ft.; internodes 1| in. Leaves few, 2-3 in. Flowers 2 in. diam.; 

 pedicel 1-1^ in. ; bracts small, appressed, sometimes many and imbricate ; lip bright 

 orange with a broad pale border, and purple blotches on the tube. 



Flowers solitary, 2-nate or racemose. Lip fimbriate. 



130. D. Devoiiianum, Paxt. Mag. vii. 169, with Jig. ; stems long 

 pendulous, leaves linear-lanceolate acuminate, flowers 1-2 on a very short 

 peduncle from the leafless stems white or pale yellow with purple-tipped 

 sepals and lip, sepals lanceolate acute, petals broadly ovate ciliate, mentum 

 saccate, lip orbicular-cordate from a short convolute base densely deeply 

 limbriate. Bot. Mag. t. 4129 ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844, Misc. 48 ; Jard. 

 Fleur. t. 11 ; Fl. des Serres vii. t. 647 ; Belg. Sortie, iii. t. 31 ; III. Hoi-tic. 

 1857, t. 145 ; Warner ScL Orchid ii. t. 11 ; Veitch Man. Dendrob. 38, with 

 fig. D. pictum, Griff, fid. Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 12. 1). pul- 

 chellum, Lindl. I. c. (not of Lod<t.). 



BHOTAN HIMALAYA, Griffith. ASSAM, the KHASIA and NAGA HILLS, and south- 

 wards to TENASSKEIM. 



Stems 2-3 ft., terete. Leaves 3-4 by in. Flowers 3 in. diam. Var. JElliof- 

 tiana, Reu-hb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1876, i. 756, is described as having thicker 

 sepals and denticulate petals. Var. rhodoneura, R. f. 1. c. 1868, 682, has shorter 

 sepals, a rounded lip with violet veins, and an odour of Patchouli. Var. candidtila, 

 I?, f. 1. e. 1876, i. 651, wants the purple tip. 



131. X>. Dalhousieanum, Wall, w .%-.% . In P<t.H. M<iy. xi. t. 1 i 



