Deud,'i;nm.] CXLVIII. ORCIIIDE^. (J D. Hooker.) 7Jf> 



sepals oblong subacute, petals broadly obovate, mentum short, lip pyrifonn 

 calceolar villous, disk rufously villous within. Veitch Man. Dendrob. 29. 



TKNASSERIM ; at Mouhnein, Parish. 



Stems 6-10 in. ; ink-modes sometimes 2 by in. and flattened. Leaves 2-3 in., 

 acute or unequally notched. Floivers 1| in. diam., resupiuate; pedicel f in. 

 Tue flowers are those of a fcinall D. Calceolaria, but are solitary on leafless 

 steins. 



*** Mentum short. Lip not calceolar. Stem often swollen at the very 

 base. Flowers golden yellow (or pale pink in D. Farmeri. Mentum long 

 in D. lamella turn). Xanthina or Holochrysa. 



t Stem terete (not clavate). Flowers racemose. 

 Lipfimbriate. (See also D. Gibsonii.) 



135. D. fimbriatum, Hook. Exot. Ft. t. 71 ; leavps lanceolate 

 acuminate, racemes usually on leafing stems pendulous, flowers many 

 orange-yellow, sepals and erose petals subequal, mentum short, lip orbicular 

 equally deeply fringed, base truncate. Wall. Cat. 2001 ; Lindl. Gen. Sc 

 Sp. Orchid. 83 (not 76); Paxt. Mag. ii. 172; Fl. Gard. iii. t. 84; Veitch 

 Man. Dendrob. 42, with fig. ; Jard. Fleur. t. 314 ; Flor. Cab. t. 109 ; Warner 

 Sel. Orchid. Ser. 2, t. 19 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 293. Dendrob. sp., Griff. Notul. 

 iii. 113. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kuinaon, alt. 5500 ft., StracJtey ${ Winterbottom, 

 eastwards, to the KHASIA HILLS, MUNNIPORE, ARRACAN and BURMA. 



Stems 4-5 ft., base swollen. Leaves 6 in. Racemes 7-12-fld. ; flowers 2-3 in. 

 diam. ; bracts small. 



VAR. oculata, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4160 ; stems stouter deeply grooved, leaves 

 6-8 in. strongly nerved, lip with a deep purple blotch. III. Hortic. 1, t. 15 ; 

 Warner Sel. Orchid, ii. t. 19. D. Paxtoui, Paxt. Mag. vi. 169 (not of Lindl.) ; Fl. 

 des Serves vii. t. 725. 



136. D. Hookerianum, Lindl. in Journ. .Linn Sue. iii. 8 ; stems 

 terete, leaves oblong-lanceolate acuminate, racemes on leafing stems 

 pendulous lax-fld., flowers very large golden, lip with 2 purple blotches, 

 sepals and entire petals subequal, mentum rounded, lip orbicular deeply 

 equally fringed, base cuneate. Sot. Mag. t. 6013; Reichb. f. in Gard. 

 Cliron. 1857, 616; Veitch Man. Dendrob. 49. D. chrysotis, Reichb. f. /. c. 

 1870, 1311 ; III. Hort. 1873, t. 155; Warner Sel Orchid. Ser. 3, t. 6 ; Flor. 

 $ Pomol. 1871, 145, witUfg. 



TROPICAL SIKKIM HIMALAYA, J. D. H. ASSAM and the KHASIA HILLS, 

 alt. 2-51.00 ft., common. 



Mems 6-8 ft., base swollen. Leaves 2-6 in. Floivers 3-1 iu. diam. ; bracts 



short, rounded ; pedicel with ovary 1^ in. Capsule 3 in., fusiform. 



137. D. Brymerianum, Relchb. /. in Gard. C/iron. 1875, ii. 323 ; 

 1876, i. 366; 1879, i. 475, fig. 65; 1881, ii. 689, fig. 140; stems terete, leaves 

 lanceolate acuminate, racemes on leafless stems 2-3-fld., flowers large yellow, 

 sepals oblong-lanceolate, petals linear-oblong entire, mentum obscure, lip 

 3-lobed deeply fimbriate, base subcordate, fimbrise of the oblong midlobo 

 much longer than the limb. /?<//. .l////. t. (W33 ; Fhr. May. X. S. t. 459; 



