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variety is called Jachsoni by M.orren.—]Sfortliern India : Assam, BJiotan, elevation 

 4,000 feet. 



_ , Fig.— ^,)«. Mag.,t. 4944 ; Id., t. 50.58 (bluut-petallerl var.) ; Flore des Serves . 1. 1197 ; 

 BHfl. HoH., 1874, t. 15 (blunt-petalled var.) ; Floral Mag., 2nd ser., t. 226 ; Liiidenin, 

 1. t. 4 ; Bateman, Second Cent. Oroh. PI., t. 137 ; Jo^irn. of Hort., 1889, xix. p. 395, f . 46. 



D. FALCONERI ALBIDULUM, iJc/iS./.— This variety has pure white flowers, 

 slightly tinged with purple at the tips of the sepals and petals, the apex of the 

 lip having also a slight tinge of purple. It was flowered by H. G. Elliott, Esq., 

 Clapton. — Northern India. 



D. FALCONERI GIGANTEUM, Hort.—K very superior variety of D. Falconeri. 

 producing stronger stems than those of the type form, and more after the style of 

 those of the original Assam variety of D. Wardianum ; the flowers are larger and 

 of greater substance, otherwise they resemble those of the type. — Northern India. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, vi. t. 257. 



D. FARMERI, Paxt. — A compact-growing evergreen species with delicately 

 beautiful blossoms, and the habit of D. densiflorum. The stems are clavate from 

 a small knob-like base, and deeply furrowed so as to become quadrangular ; at the 

 top of the stem are from two to four ovate leathery leaves, and later on the loose 

 drooping racemes of numerous flowers ; these have the ovate obtuse sepals and 

 the larger petals yellowish-white flushed with pink, and the lip is straw-coloured 

 and pubescent, rich yellow in the centre and denticulate at the margin. It blooms 

 in April and May, and lasts two weeks in beauty if kept in a cool house. This 

 species requires the same treatment as D. densiflorum. There are many forms of 

 this plant, which varies much in colour and in the manner of its growth. — India. 



Fig. — Paxton, Mag, Bot.. xv. p. 241, with tab. : Floi-e des Serres, t. 741 ; Zem. Jard. 

 F7., t. .S07 ; But. Mag., t. 4659 ; Pescatorea,t. 4 ; Jenninqs, Orch.,t. 24 ; Batem. Second 

 Cent. Orch. PI., t. 132 ; Card. Chron., 3rd ser., 1837, ii. p. 333, f. 73 ; Yeitcli's Man.. 

 Orcli. PL, iii. p. 42. 



D. FARMERI ALBIFLORUM, Hort.—lri this variety the sepals and petals arc 

 almost pure white, with the downy lip orange-coloured. In the Oartenflora it ia 

 called B. Farmeri album. — India. 



Fia.—Belg. Uort., I860, p. 321, with tab. ; Gartenflora, t. 595 (var. alhutii). 



D. FARMERI AUREO-FLAVUM, JToo/c— A beautiful rich golden yellow-flowered 

 variety, with the same quadrangular steins as in 1). Farmeri, but not quite so 

 strong-growing. It is somewhat intermediate in aspect between D. Farmeri and 

 B. clirysotoxum, but quite different from the latter in the four-angled stems ; the 

 sepals and petals are bright yellow, and the lip deep golden yellow and pubescent. — 

 lloulmein. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5451 ; Orchid Album, iii. t. 99. 



D. FIMBRIATUM, Hook. — A very showy evergreen species, with stoutish 

 terete erect stems 2 or 3 feet long, producing its drooping racemes from near the 

 apex of the last year's stem ; the leaves are distichous, lanceolate-acuminate, of a 

 dark green colour ; the flowers are of a uniform bright yellow, the petals ciliato- 

 denticulate, the lip having a deeper yellow disk and beautifully fringed with 



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