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with purple ; lip white with rich purple blotch at the base, and 

 golden margin. One of the finest. 



11. D. Farmeri. In habit somewhat like densiflorum. Flowers 

 looser, variable, pink and yellow. 



12. D. fimbriatum. Native of Assam ; a splendid plant, pro- 

 ducing large handsome trasses of bloom well relieved by the rich 

 foliage. Flowers apricot-yellow, two inches across. Yar. oculatum 

 with a kidney-formed blood-coloured spot on the base of the lip. 



13. D. formosum. Flowers white with deep yellow stain on lip. 

 Var. gigantium from Burmah. 



14. D. Jenkinsii. Native of Goalpara; a pretty, compact 

 little Orchid, with strap-like leaves, two or three inches long ; 

 bears a pretty cluster of apricot-coloured flowers. 



15. D. macranthum, syn. macrophyllum. Native of the Philip- 

 pines. Flowers six inches in diameter, rosy-pink ; lip with deep 

 claret stain ; scent unpleasant. The finest and largest of all. 



16. D. nobile.- Native of N. India. A lovely plant when in 

 full blossom. Flowers two inches a,cross, Avhite, deeply tinged 

 with violet, with two club-formed deep purple spots on the base 

 of the lip. There are Wallichii, Lindleyanum, and other varieties 

 differing in colour. 



17. D. Parishii. Semi-pendulous with thickish bulbs. Flowers 

 numerous, beautiful rosy-purple. 



18. D. Pierardii. Flowers large, French- white, borne in 

 drooping festoons of blossom several feet long. A most beautiful 

 Orchid, very common about Calcutta, where it thrives well on 

 the bough of a tree. There is a variety, Latifolium, of double 

 the size. 



19. D. secundum. Native of Borneo. Stems short and thick, 

 with spikes of deep rose-coloured flowers. 



Others met with about Calcutta are : D. albo-sanguineum ; 

 D. amoenum ; D. chrysotoxum ; D. ccerulescens ; D. crepidatum ; 

 D. cretaceum ; D. crystalinum ; D. Gibsoni ; D. Griffith!! ; D. heter- 

 ocarpum ; D.infundibulum ; D. Macarthise ; D. multicaule ; D. nodosum ; 

 D. onosmum ; D. Paxtoni ; D. primulinum ; D. speciosum ; D. tortile ; 

 D. transparens. 



Ccelogyne. 



A genus of Orchids entirely Eastern, and most natives of the 

 hills of India. The following are met with in Calcutta, 1. C. 



