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but larger, and of stouter substance. It blooms during the 

 winter and spring months. — Bunnah. 



'Fig.— Orchid Album, iii. t. 113 ; Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 212. 

 Stn. — D. Wardianum Lowii. 



D. Williamsoni, Bay and Rchb. f. — A distinct and pretty 

 species, with erect fusiform stems, velvety with black hairs, 

 the younger ones bearing numerous oblong-ligulate unequally 

 bilobed leaves, which are also velvety with short soft hairs. 

 The flowers are large, ivory white, the sepals slightly 

 tinged with brown on the outer surface, the lip bearing a 

 large three-lobed blood-red spot on the disk. This plant 

 belongs to the nigro-hirsute section of this genus, and is 

 somewhat difficult to establish. — Assam. 



D. xailtlioplllebilim, Lindley. — A very pretty species with 

 erect terete angled stems about a foot long, and rather thicker 

 than a swan's quill. The leaves, produced on the young 

 stems only, are linear-lanceolate and obliquely emarginate. 

 The flowers grow from the joints of the older leafless stems, 

 generally in pairs, the sepals and petals being pure white, 

 and the lip three-lobed, the side lobes large, erect, veined 

 with deep orange, the front lobe also roundish, but much 

 undulated, downy, orange-yellow bordered with white as in 

 the lateral lobes. The spur is as long as the chin. This 

 plant has been identified with the D. marginatum of 

 Bateman in Botanical Magazine quoted below, a name given 

 some years later than that here adopted, — Moulmein. 



Fm.—Bot. Mag., t. 5454. 

 Stn. — D. marginatum, 



Dendeochilum. — See Platyclinis. 

 DiACEIUM. — See Epidendrum bicornutum. 



DOSSINIA, Morren. 

 ( Tribe Neottiese, subtribe Spiranthese.) 



This genus is closely allied to Anmctochilm, differing chiefly 

 in its spurless three-lobed lip, the claw of which is entire, and 

 the middle lobe dilately bilobed. Only one species, aBornean 



