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stem. The leaves are distichous, lanceolate acuminate, of a 

 dark green colour. The flowers are of an uniform bright 

 yellow, the petals cihato-denticulate, the lip having a deeper 

 yellow disk and beautifully fringed with lacerate fimbria at 

 the margin. This plant will continue flowering from the old 

 stems for years; it generally blossoms during the spring 

 months, seldom lasting much more than a week in bloom. 

 It is best grown in a basket or pot, with peat and moss. — 

 India: Nepal. 



YiG.— Hook. Exot. FL, t. 71 ; Paxton, Mag. Bat, ii. 172, with tab. ; 

 Knowles and Westc. Fl. Cab , t. 109 (pale var.). 



D. flmMatum OCUlatum, Hook. — A beautiful variety of the 

 preceding, producing its pendent flower spikes from near the 

 top of the stems, which grow from three to four feet high. 

 The flowers are large, of a rich orange-yellow, with a single 

 large deep sanguineous spot towards the base of the beautifully 

 fringed lip. It blooms in March and April, and, if kept dry, 

 lasts ten days in perfection. It succeeds best in a pot, in 

 peat. Said to have flowered in September at Kew. 



ElG.—Bot. 3Iag., t. 4160 ; Paxt., Fl. Gard., iii. t. 84 ; Lem. Jard. Fl., t. 

 314 : III. Hart., t. 15 ; Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, ii. t. 19 ; Paxton, Mag, Bot., 

 vi. 169, with tab. ; Fl. des Serres, t. 125. 



Syn. — D. Paxtoni, Paxt. non Lindl. 



D.Findleyanuni, P«r«s/i et Bchh.f. — A very pretty and desir- 

 able species, which in its habit of growth somewhat resembles 

 D. nodatum. The stems are from one to two feet long, flexuose, 

 knotty, with internodes two to three inches long, the knobs 

 club-shaped and sulcate, developed above the sheathing bases 

 - of the leaves, which are linear-oblong acute, and produced on 

 the young shoots, the flowers being borne on the older leaf- 

 less ones on one to three-flowered peduncles, from near the 

 top of the stems. The sepals and petals are white suff'used 

 with pink, the broadly rounded tomentose lip deep orange- 

 yellow on the discal portion, paling to golden yellow at the 

 margins. It blooms in January and February, and on that 

 account will be found a valuable plant. — Moidmein. 



'FlQ.—Bot. Mag., t. 6438 ; Orchid Album, ii. t. 92. 



D. forHLOSUin, Boxh. — A remarkably handsome compact- 

 growing evergreen species, with stoutish terete pendulous 

 hairy stems about a foot high, bearing thick ovate obliquely 

 emarginate leaves, and racemes of four or five fragrant 

 flowers from the top of the stem, the blossoms frequently 



