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D. FINDLAYANUM, Parish et Bchb. /.—A very pretty and desirable species, 

 which in its habit of growth somewhat resembles B. nodatum. The stems aro 

 from 1 to 2 feet long, flexuose, knotty, with internodes 2 to 3 inches long, the 

 knobs club-shaped and sulcate, developed above the sheathing bases of the leaves, 

 which are linear-oblong acute, and produced on the young shoots, the flowers 

 being borne on the older leafless ones on one- to three-flowered peduncles, from 

 near the top of the stems ; the sepals and petals are white suffused with piuk, the 

 broadly rounded tomentose lip deep orange-yellow on the diskal portion, paling 

 to golden yellow at the margins. It blooms in Januarj- and February, and on 

 that account will be found a valuable plant. It is named after Mr. James 

 Findlay, a Burmese merchant. " This Dendrohium is found growing with 

 D. Janiesianum in the Siam Hills in great luxuriance. Heat and moisture 

 in the summer, and a cool air in the winter, suit it. In nature it is exposed to a. 

 considerable amount of sun, which ripens its new gro-svths. Of the deciduous 

 Dendrohiums, it is the first to flower in the winter" (Major-Gen. E. S. Berkeley, 

 in Gardeners' Chronicle). — Moulmein. 



Fm.—Bot. Mag., t 6438 ; Orchid All>um, ii. t. 92 ; L'OrchidopluTe, 1887, p. 154. 



D. FORBESM. — See D. atbo-violacetjm. 



D. FORMOSUM, Roxb. — A remarkably handsome compact-growing evergreen 

 species, with stoutish terete pendulous hairy stems about a foot high, bearing 

 thick ovate obliquely emarginate leaves, and racemes of four or five fragrant 

 flowers from the top of the stem, the blossoms frequently 3 inches across ; the 

 sepals and the much broader petals are white, the lip white, with a bright yellow 

 furrow down the centre; they last six weeks or more in perfection. This 

 species may be grown either in a pot or basket with moss or peat. We have 

 found it do best in a stove without shading of any kind. It makes a splendid 

 plant for exhibition. — India: 2^epaul, Sylhet; Moulmein, Tavoy, on trees and 

 rocl-s. 



YlG.—Bot. Reg., 1839, t. 64 ; PaHon, Mag. JBot., vi. p. 49, with tab. ; Flore dex Serres, 

 t. 226 ; Annales do Gand., 1848, t. 171 ; Wail. PI. As. Ear., t. 39; Beieheniaekiu, 2nd 

 ser., i. t. 3 ; Veitcli's Man. Orcli. PI., iii. p. 45. 



D. FORMOSUM GIGANTEUM, Tan Houite.—A. magnificent variety of the 

 preceding, much stronger in growth, and, like it, evergreen. The flowers, which 

 are produced at the top of the stems, measure from. 4 to 5 inches across ; their 

 colour is snow-white, with a broad blotch of rich orange-yellow on the centre of 

 the lip. It requires the same treatment as B. formosum, and remains in bloom 

 for about the same period. — Moulmein. 



Fig-. — Flore dcs Serres, 1. 1633 ; Gard. Chron., U.S., xvii. p. 369, f. 54 ; OreJiid All/tim, 

 vii. t. 308. 



D. FUSCATUM, Lindley. — Avery fine species in the way of B. fimhriaium. 

 It has fascicled, nearly cylindrical, grooved stems 2 to 3 feet long, and lanceolate 

 or ovate-lanceolate acuminate leaves 4 to 6 inches long ; the flowers grow from 

 nodes of the leafless stems in drooping racemes, which are 4 to 7 inches long, 

 with a slender zigzag rachis, and sometimes bear as many as fifteen flowers on 

 each ; these are of a deep-toned orange-yellow (in native drawings almost orange- 

 brown), 2 inches in diameter, the sepals and petals similar, oblong, somewhat 

 incurved, the lip shorter, broadly oblate, cucullate, the surface downy, and the 



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