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the lip, and this is light amher. Spring and early 

 summer. Rangoon. 



D. Fytchiaimm. — This is a charming little species, 

 which thrives hest upoii a hare hlock of wood. It is 

 often confounded with- a, species previously quoted 

 (D. barbtttulum), but from which it is abundantly 

 distinct; the stems are terete, slender, slightly in- 

 creasing in size upwards, and not swollen at the 

 base; the racemes are terminal upon the naked 

 stems ; flowers pure white, saving the lateral lobes 

 of the lip, which are pink. 



D. Jieteroearpum. — There are numerous varieties of 

 this species, but aU have to some extent lost favom- 

 with Orchid-growers ; it is true they are somewhat 

 deficient in colour, but the delicious fragrance of the 

 Violet which they emit should reconmiend them to 

 alL The pseudo-bulbs are terete and somewhat 

 pendulous, flowers abundantly produced ; the sepals 

 and petals are pale yellow; lip same colour, with a 

 dark blotch on the disc. Other forms of this plant 

 are very numerous, but all are fiugrant. Winter 

 and spring months. "Widely distributed through 

 India and also the Indian Islands. 



D. Hookeriamtm. — ^This beautiful and free-flower- 

 ing plant is also to be found in collections under the 

 name of D. ehri/sotis. It is an erect-growing plant, 

 attaining a height of three to four feet when strong ; 

 the racemes are five to nine-flowered, and these are 

 home on the young growth with the leaves, and not 

 on the previous years' naked stems. Flowers three 

 to four inches in diameter ; sepals and petals about 

 equal, somewhat oblong-acute, deep apricot-yellow-, 

 lip convolute at the base, with a large cordate 

 middle lobe, soft apricot - yellow, edged with a 

 beautifully moss-Uke fringe nearly half an inch 

 long, and marked at the base with two dark purple 

 blotches. It is undoubtedly a near relative of 

 D. Jimbriatum oculatum, but it differs from that 

 species in producing its flowers upon the young 

 stems with the leaves, and in having two blotches at 

 the base of the lip instead of one. Autunm months. 

 On trees in hot valleys in Sikkim, at an elevation of 

 1,500 feet. 



D. infundibulum. — ^This is one of the very finest of 

 the nigra -hirsute section, a class which enjoy an 

 abundant supply of water during the growing sea- 

 son, but it must never remain about the roots. It 

 is nearly allied to D. formomm, and is to be found in 

 some collections under the name of D. Moiilmeineiise. 

 Pseudo-bulbs terete, clothed with short black hairs ; 

 leaves narrowly-lanceolate, acute, and dark green. 

 Racemes three to four or more flowered; flowei-s 

 three to four inches across; sepals linear-oblong; 

 petals very broad and obtuse, all pure ivory-white ; 

 lip white, stained with yeUow at the base, and 

 streaked with lines of Roman red ; the middle lobe 



is broad and spreading, serrated on the edge, side 

 lobes forming a complete hood over the column. 

 Spur about an inch long. Spring and early sum- 

 mer. Moulmein, at an elevation of 5,000 feet. 



D. Jenkiiisii. — An old inhabitant of oiir plant- 

 nouses, which must be grown upon a block of wood ; 

 the pseudo-bulbs are. small, betiring a singlf dark 

 green leaf, the whole plant never exceeding two 

 inches in height. The flowers are usually produced 

 in pairs, large and showy, of a uniform pale yellow. 

 Spring months. Xorthem India. 



D. Leeeh'umum. — This beautiful plant is a hybrid, 

 I'aised by Mr, Swan in the gardens of Mr. W. 

 Leech, of FaUowfield, Manchester ; and although 

 -D. Ainsworthii was raised in gardens near by, and 

 from the same, parents, the result is totally different. 

 Sepals and petals soft white, tipped and suffused 

 with flesh-colour, the petals waved at the edges, and 

 twice as broad as the sepals. Lip white, with a 

 large blotch of purplish-crimson, the base of the lip 

 covering the column. It is an abundant bloomer, 

 continuing from autumn into the late spring months. 

 Garden hybrid. 



D. lituijlorum. — ^A pendulous deciduous species, 

 which should be grown upon a block of wood or in 

 a basket. The peduncle is usually two-flowered. 

 Flowers large, upwards of three inches in diameter. 

 .Sepals and petals spreading, the latter being much 

 the broader, all of a rosy-lilac. Lip convolute, re- 

 sembling a Roman trumpet in shape, from which 

 the specific name is derived ; white, with a margin 

 of soft rose, and deep riolet eye. Spring months. 

 Upper Assam. 



D. maeranthum. — This grand species has been for 

 many years known in gardens by the name of 

 macrophyllum, and also superbum; both, however, we 

 are told, are eiToneous. The pseudo-bulbs are stout, 

 long, and pendulous, in the variety giganteum often 

 attaining a length of from four to five feet. The 

 voung growths are furnished with numerous broadly- 

 ovate, many -ribbed, dark green leaves. Flowers, 

 usually in pairs, five to six inches across ; sepals and 

 petals large and spreading, pale rose ; lip deep 

 rose on the outside, pale rose on the front lobe, 

 with a dark blotch of deep crimson at the base, 

 which is very beautifully toothed on the margin. 

 The flowers have a strong perfume, resembling 

 Tm-key rhubarb. Spring and summer. Island of 

 Luzon. 



D. maeranthum, var. Muttonii. — An exceedingly 

 rare varietj', resembling in habit the normal form, 

 but somewhat more slender. Sepals and petals pure 

 white; the lip rose-colour, with a deep crimson 

 blotch at the base. Spring and summer. Malay 

 Islands. 



D. MaearthUe. — In its native country this is known 



