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velvety disk, golden yellow streaked and veined with crimson 

 lines, recurved at the tip. These flowers, which are produced 

 during the months of January, February, and March, and 

 last several weeks in perfection, have a most delicious odour 

 compared to that of violets, or of violets combined with prim- 

 roses. — India : Nepal, Assam ; Ceylon ; Java, 



YiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 4708 ; Id., t. 4970 (var. Henshallii) ; Bot. Reg., 1839, 

 t. 20 (var. pallidum) ; Id., 1843, t. 17 (rhombeum) ; Fl. des Serres, t. 842 ; 

 Lem. Jard. FL, t. 386 ; Wall. PI. As. Ear., 1. 196 ; Wight, Icon. PI. Ind. Or., 

 V. t. 1646. 



Stn. — D. heterocarpum ; D. rhombeum. 



D. aureum pMlippinense, Echb.f. — A gigantic variety of 

 the preceding, having pseudobulbs one and a half to two feet 

 long. The flowers are paler than those of the type, and have 

 a single broad purple patch under the velvety disk ; they are 

 also produced in much greater profusion. This variety is not 

 sweet-scented like the type. — Fhilippine Islands. 



D. barbatulum, Lindley. — A charming epiphyte, well adapted 

 for cutting, growing a foot or more in height, and having 

 stiff curved suberect stems, terete from a swollen base, the joints 

 covered with membranaceous sheaths. The leaves, which are 

 only seen on the young shoots, are lanceolate acuminate. 

 The flowers grow in lateral racemes on slender almost filiform 

 slightly curved peduncles, and are numerous, crowded, secund, 

 with elliptic sepals, lanceolate petals, and an obovate spathulate 

 lip, pure white in every part except the greenish spur. These 

 crowded clusters of white flowers are very effective. It is 

 known from D. Fytcheanum, with which it is confounded in 

 the Bot. Mag. plates, by the orbicular petals of the latter 

 plant, and its terminal racemes. Not being a robust grower, 

 it succeeds best on a block, and must have a tolerable rest 

 after its growth is made. — Western Peninsula of India : 

 Cancan. 



'S\G.—Bot. Mag., t. 5918 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard., iii. 113, fig. 285. The B. M. 

 plate 5444 labelled barhatulum is Fytcheanum, 



D. Bensonise, Bchh. f. — A lovely species, bearing some 

 resemblance in its habit to D. crystallimim. It has suberect or 

 pendulous terete stems one to three feet long, the younger ones 

 with linear acute or emarginate leaves, the older leafless ones 

 bearing the large showy flowers two or three together from 

 the nodes ; the sepals oblong lanceolate, the petals roundish 

 oblong, both creamy white, the orbicular concave tomentose 



