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B. Calceolus. — See Dendeobium moschatum cupreuM. 



D. capillipes, Rchh. f. — This a curious dwarf-growing 

 species, resembling a pigmy form of D. albo-sanguineum. It 

 usually attains a height of about six inches, producing short 

 racemes of bright golden yellow flowers. Succeeds best upon 

 a block or in a basket. — Moulmein. 



7lG.—Xenia Orch., ii. t. 169, figs. 4-6. 



D. cMorops, Lindley. — A very pretty free -flowering species, 

 producing pale nankin flowers, having the base of the lip of 

 a bright pea- green. The flowers last a considerable time in 

 bloom. — India : Western Feninsula. 



L. chrysantlmni, Wallich. — A handsome Orchid, having 

 pendulous deciduous stems, three to four feet long, furnished 

 with twisted ovate-lanceolate acuminate leaves, and generally 

 producing flowers along the stem at the time of making its 

 growth ; they are produced at different times of the year, 

 and grow in pairs or threes, continuing in perfection for ten 

 days or a fortnight. The flowers are of an intense deep 

 yellow, fleshy, with oblong sepals and obovate petals, and a 

 cucullate denticulate lip of the same colour marked in the 

 centre with a large double spot of intense blood-purple. The 

 plants grow best in baskets suspended from the roof of the 

 house. The D. Paxtoni of gardens, and of Paxton, is D. 

 jimhriatum oculatum. — Nepal. 



'ElG.—Bot. Reg., t. 1299 ; Gartenflora, t. 446, 

 Stn.— Z>. Paxtoni, Lindl., not of Paxton. 



D. clirysotis, Bchb. f. — This plant very much resembles D. 

 fimhriatum oculatum in the colour of its flowers. It grows from 

 three to four feet high, with slender rod-like stems, dark green 

 oblong-lanceolate acuminate leaves, and long drooping axillary 

 racemes, bearing six to nine large flowers, which measure 

 three to four inches across ; the sepals and petals are oblong- 

 acute, entire, of a rich deep yellow ; the lip is large, orbicular- 

 cordate, velvety, of the same colour as the petals, or of a deeper 

 apricot yellow, having two blotches of purplish black towards 

 the base, and deeply fringed with bearded segments at the 

 margins. — Assam . 



YlG.— Florist and Pom., 1871, 145, with tab. ; Bot. Mag., t. 6013 ; War- 

 ner, Sel. Orch. PL, iii. t. G ; III. Hort., 3 ser., t. 155 (poor). 



Syn. — D. Hookerianum, Bot. Mag. (non Lindl., which is described as 

 having fascicled, not racemose flowers). 



