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at the top. The racemes of flowers are lateral, also from the upper end of the 

 stem, drooping, consisting of a dozen cr more showy flowers, which are golden 

 yellow, the lip oucullate and roundish, beautifully fringed and ciliated, 

 pubescent, rich orange, with a paler margin; there is an arch of very deep 

 orange at the base of the flower. It blooms during the winter and spring 

 months, and lasts two or three weeks in perfection. Of this there are two 

 varieties, one much superior to the other. Pot culture in peat suits it best. 

 Blooms in Febi-uary. — Moiihnein. 



Fig.— Sot. Sir/.. 1847, t. 36 ; Hot. Mag., t. .5053 ; VIU. Hurt., t. 164 : Biitem. Svcond 

 Criit. Orch. PL, 1. 124. 



D. CILIATUM, Pai-isli. — An interesting species introduced about thirty 

 years since, by the Eev. C. Parish ; the psendobulbs are tufted, a few inches to 

 1 foot or 18 inches long ; racemes about as long as the bulbs, six- to eighteen- 

 flowered ; individual flowers about 1 inch across ; sepals and petals equal in size, 

 greenish-yellow, lip deep yellow^ streaked with reddi.sh-brown, the edges being 

 ornamented with a row of hairs. Blooms in summer. — Moulmciii. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag. t. 5430 ; Orchid Album, x. t. 454. 



D. CLAVATUM, Wallicli. — A remarkably handsome evergi-een species, which 

 has terete pendulous stems "2 feet long, and prodvices five-flowered lateral 

 scaly racemes of flowers from the top of the stems ; their colour is a bright 

 orange yellow, with a broad double brownish-crimson spot in the centre of the 

 lip, which is pubescent on the surface, and ciliated, not fringed, at the edge. 

 This is one of the finest of the yellow kinds, and it continues in perfection three 

 weeks, thus making a fine exhibition plant. Pot culture in peat suits it best. — 

 Assam. 



Fig.— Pa-rtoii. Fl. Gard., ii. p. 104, f. 189 ; Ihnw Tlovt. Beige., 188.3. p. 181 ; Bot. Mag., 

 t. 6993. 



D. COERULESCENS.— See D. xobile. 



D. CRASSINODE, Benson ct Bchh.f. — A very handsome and distinct species, 

 with stout stems varying from 6 to 18 inches in length, and having large close- 

 set swollen or knotted joints or nodes, forming depressed spheres 1 inch in 

 diameter, whence the name crassirwde ; the flowers, which grow on the older 

 defoliated stems, are abundant from the upper nodes, 2^ inches in diameter, 

 solitary or in pairs, the linear-oblong sepals and petals waxy white tipped with 

 magenta-purple, and the broadly oblong-ovate obtuse velvety lip white with an 

 orange-yellow blotch at the base, and a magenta-purple tip. The plant is best 

 grown in a small basket or on a block, with sphagnum moss. Flowers produced 

 in January and February. — Siam: Arracaii Mountains, elevation 2,.500 feet. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5766 ; Orc/i id Album, iv. 1. 152 ; VeitclCs Man. Orch. PL, iii. p. 31. 



D. CRASSINODE ALBIFLORUM, Bclib. /.—This is a pure white variety of 

 the species, with a lemon-coloured blotch at the base of the lip. It was first 

 flowered in the collection of Messrs. Low, of Upper Clapton, and has subse^ 

 quently been exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. It is called Z). crassinode 

 album in some collections. — Monhnein. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, x. t. 45S. 



