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D. clirysotoxum, Lindley. — This is a sliowy species, an 

 upright-growing evergreen plant, with fleshy ribbed clavate 

 stems a foot or more in height, and bearing three or four 

 largish oblong-acute, leathery dark green leaves, clustered at 

 the top. The racemes of flowers are lateral, also from the 

 upper end of the stem, drooping, consisting of a dozen or more 

 showy flowers, which are golden yellow, the lip cucullate and 

 roundish, beautifully fringed and ciliated, pubescent, rich 

 orange, with a paler margin ; there is an arch of very deep 

 orange at the base of the flower. It blooms during the 

 winter and spring months, and lasts two or three weeks in 

 perfection. Of this there are two varieties, one much superior 

 to the other. Pot culture in peat suits it best. — Moulmein. 



¥lG.—Bot. Reg., 1847, t. 36 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5053 ; 111, Hort., t. 164 ; 

 Batem. 2nd Cent, t. 124. 



D. claTatum, Lindleij. — A remarkably handsome evergreen 

 species, which has terete pendulous stems two feet long, and 

 produces five-flowered lateral scaly racemes of flowers from 

 the top of the stems ; their colour is a bright orange yellow, 

 with a broad double brownish crimson spot in the centre of 

 the lip, which is pubescent on the surface, and ciliated, not 

 fringed, at the edge. This is one of the finest of the yellow 

 kinds, and it continues in perfection three weeks, thus making 

 a fine exhibition plant. Pot culture in peat suits it best. — 

 Assam. 



'Em.—Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. 104, fig. 189. 



D. CCemlescens. — See Dendrobium nobile. 



D. crassinode, Benson et FicJib. f. — A very handsome and 

 distinct species, with stout erect stems varying from six to 

 eighteen inches in length, and having large close-set swollen 

 or knotted joints or nodes, forming depressed spheres an 

 inch in diameter, whence the name crassinode. The flowers, 

 which grow on the older defoliated stems, are abundant from 

 the upper nodes, two and a half inches in diameter, solitary 

 or in pairs, the linear-oblong sepals and petals waxy white 

 tipped with magenta-purple, and the broadly oblong-ovate 

 obtuse velvety lip white with an orange yellow blotch at the 

 base, and a magenta-purple tip. The plant is best grown in 

 a small basket or on a block, with sphagnum moss. — Siam : 

 Arracan Mountains, elevation 2,500 feet. 

 'ElG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6766; Orchid Album, iv. t. Ic2. 



