830 orchid-grower's manual. 



D. CHLOROSTELE, Behh. /.—This is another of Sir Trevor Lawrence's 

 hybrids, between B. Linaimanwm and B. Wardianum. The growth resembles 

 that of the first-named parent. " The substance of the flower is very bold and 

 stiff. Sepals ligulate, acute, white with purple edges ; petals broad, blunt, with 

 outer halves purple, interior white ; lip of the shape that is so conspicuous in 

 B. Wardianum, with a strong light square cushion at the base, and an amaranth- 

 coloured radiating area around bordered outside with light sulphur colour, the 

 apicular one being light purple " (H. G. Beichenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 3rd ser., 1887, i. p. 477). — Garden hybrid. 



D. CHLOROSTELE OWENIANUM.— See D. Owexlvxuji. 



D. CHRYSANTHUM, Wallich.—K handsome Orchid, having pendulous 

 deciduous stems, 3 to 4 feet long, furnished with twisted ovate-lanceolate 

 acuminate leaves, and generally producing flowers along the stem at the time 

 of making its growth; they are produced at difllerent times of the year, and 

 grow in pairs or threes, continuing in perfection for ten days or a fortnight. 

 The flowers are of an intense deep j'ellow, fleshy with oblong sepals and obovate 

 petals, and a cucuUate denticulate lip of the same colour marked in the centre 

 with a large double spot of intense blood-purple. The plants grow best in 

 baskets suspended from the roof of the house. Flowers in winter. The 

 B. Paxtoni of gardens, and of Paxton, is B. fimbriatum oculatum. — Ncpaul. 



Pig. — Bot. Beg., t. 1299 ; Gartenflora, t. 446 ; Lindenia, v. t. 194. 

 Syn. — D. Paxtoni, Lindl., not' of Paxton. 



D. CHRYSODISCUS, Rchh. /.—This beautiful hybrid was raised by Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, Bart., between .D. Findlayanutn and B. Aiiisvortliii ; the bulbs 

 are intermediate between the two parents. " The sepals are ligulate acute, whitish 

 with purple apicular parts ; the petals are broad, white, purple at the apex ; the 

 lip is of the lightest sulphur- white with a velvety white thickened cushion at the 

 base ; a large orange area around, purple lines radiate from the cushion, and the 

 apex is purple too." Flowers in January and February. — Garden hybrid. 



D. CHRYSOTIS, .2?.c7i6. /. — This plant very mucli resembles B. fimbriaium 

 oculatum in the colour of its flowers. It grows from 3 to 4 feet high, with slender 

 rod-like stems, dark green oblong-lanceolate acuminate leaves, and long drooping 

 axillary racemes, bearing six to nine large flowers, which measure 3 to 4 inches 

 across ; the sepals and petals are oblong-acute, entire, of a rich deep yellow ; the 

 lip is large, orbicular-cordate, velvety, of the same colour as the petals, or of a 

 deeper apricot yellow, having two blotches of purplish-black towards the base, 

 and deeply fringed with bearded segments at the margins. — Assam. 



¥10.— Florist and Pom., 1871, p. 145, with tab. ; Bof. Maq., t. 6013 ; Wiirncr, Si-/. 

 Orck. PI,, iii. t. 6 ; L'JIl. Hurt., 3rcl ser., 1. 155 (poor) ; Orchid Album, ix. t. 41U ; Joitni. 

 of Hort., 1893, xxvii. p. 49, f. 8 {D. Hooherian/u/ni). 



Syn. — D. HooJieriamtm, Bot. Mag. (non Lindl., which is described as liaving fascicle.l 

 not racemose flowers). 



D. CHRYSOTOXUM, Lindley. — This is a showy species, an upright-growing 

 evergreen plant, with fleshy ribbed clavate stems a foot or more in height, and 

 bearing three or four largish oblong-acute, leathery dark green leaves, clustered 



