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D. BRYMERIANUM HISTRIONICUM, BM.f.—K variety with shorter bulbs, 

 which flowers in the autumn months, and which is much inferior to the type ; 

 moreover the flowers very seldom expand as they are often self -fertilised before 

 they burst open. 



D. BULLERIANUM — See D. GiiATiosissniuM. 



D. BURFORDIENSE, HoH. Lawrence— This, pretty hybrid is the result of u, 

 cross between B. Llnawianum and D. aiireum. It is very free-flowering ; 

 pseudobulbs slender, fusiform, bearing ovate-lanceolate distichous leaves ; 

 growth intermediate between the two parents, but there is no indication 

 of any nodes; sepals and petals are rosy-purple, white towards the base; 

 lip white, tipped with rosy-purple; throat deep reddish purple. Flowers in 

 January. — Garden hybrid. 



D. CALAMIFORME. — See D. teheth'olium:. 



D. CALCEOLARIA — See D. moschatum. 



D. CALCEOLUS — See D. moschathm cupeelm. 



D. CAMBRIDGEANUM See D. ocnEEAitrM. 



D. CANALICULATUM, B. Br.— A pretty Orchid of easy culture, and bearing 

 sweet-scented flowers. It has short pear-shaped stems resembling pseudobulbs ; 

 these bear a few narrow acute fleshy leaves, and from the side of the stem near 

 the apex a peduncle or scape, which is slender, rigid, erect, about a foot high, 

 terminating in a raceme of a dozen or more curious but not showy flowers, the 

 narrow sepals and petals of which are white tipped with yellow, and the wedge- 

 shaped lip deep mauve on its disk, white at the margins, and bearing along 

 the centre three keel-like elevated veins, which terminate on the semi-ovate 

 apiculate front lobe in crenulated plates. It is a very singular and desirable 

 small-flowered species. — Norih-aast Australia. 



¥lG.—Bot. Mag. t. 5537. 



Syn. — D. Tattonianum. 



D. CAPILLIPES, Relib. f. — This is a curious dwarf-growing species, resembling 

 a pigmy form of D. albo-sanguineum. It usually attains a height of about 

 6inches, producing short racemes of bright golden yellow flowers. Succeeds 

 best upon a block or in a basket. Blooms in March. — Mouhnein: 



Fia.—Xema Orch., ii. t. 169, figF. 4-6. 



D. CASSIOPE, Bolfe.-A pretty little hybrid, raised by N. C. Cooksou, Esq., 

 of Wylam-on-Tyne, between D. japonicum fertilised with the pollen of D. nohile 

 album. The flowers very much resemble those of D. endocharis and are about 

 2 inches in diameter, pure white with a maroon-purple throat. Flowers during 

 .spring and summer inonths. — Garden hybrid. 



■ Fm.—Mcicloenbachia, 2ncl ser., ii. t. 50 ; L'OrclMophiU', 1893, p. 106 (woodcut). 



D. CHLOROPS, Liridley. — A very pretty free-flowering species, producing 

 ])ale nankin flowers, having the base of the lip of a bright pea-green. The 

 flowers last a considerable time in bloom. — India : Western Peninsula. 



