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margin fringed, having also two deep purple-crimson spots at the base, one on 

 each side the column ; the long drooping racemes are very conspicuous. — India : 

 Khasya and hot valleys of the Sikkim, Himalaya. 

 YlQ.—Sot. Mag., t. 6226. 



D. FYTCHIANUM, Batemnn. — One of the prettiest of the smaller-flowered 

 species, and valuable for cutting- on account of its effective rosy-eyed white 

 flowers. The stems are slender, cylindrical, erect, a foot long, the younger o«es 

 leafy, the leaves being oblong-lanceolate; the flowers grow in terminal (? and 

 lateral) racemes of eight or ten together, and are of dazzling whiteness ; the sepals 

 lanceolate, the petals roundish obovate, and the lip three-lobed, bearded at the 

 base, its small oblong incurved lateral lobes rose-coloured, and forming a minute 

 eye to the flower, and its obcordate apitulate middle lobe about as large as 

 the petals, and, like them, pure white. This plant was erroneously figured as 

 D. harbatuliim in Bot. Mag., t. 5444. — Moulmein. 



Fia.—JBot. Mag., t. 5444 (not t. 5918) ; Bateman, Second Cmit. Orch. PL, I. 102. 



D. FYTCHIANUM ROSEUM, Berkeley. — This pretty variety was introduced 

 in 1886 by Major-Gen. E. S. Berkeley, from whom we acquired the stock. It 

 was found some two hundred miles distant from the original habitat of the type, 

 growing on trees where rains and dews are abundant during the growing season. 

 It has rose-coloured flowers of a very pleasing hue. Blooms during February 

 and March. — Burmali. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, vii. t. 336. 



D. GALLICEANUM, Linden. — This plant appears to have been imported by 

 the Horticulture Internationale with a batch of D. thyrsiflorum, which it closely 

 resembles. The flowers are said to be more open, and as a consequence larger ; 

 the colour of the lip, instead of being orange as in D. thyrsiflorum, is of a golden- 

 yellow colour, softening into white at the edges. It is named after M. A. Gallice, 

 a French Orchid amateur. — Burmah. 



Fig. — Llndcnia, vi. t. 241. 



D. GIBSONI, Paxt. — A very showy evergreen Orchid, one of the finest of the 

 yellow-flowered series. The stems are terete, tapering, pendulous, about 2 feet 

 long with ovate-lanceolate acuminate leaves, and laiteral racemes of ten to fifteen 

 flowers produced near the end of the older stems ; the sepals and petals are of a 

 rich orange ; the lip very broad, undulated and fringed, bright yellow, with two 

 dark purple spots near the base. It blooms during the autumn months, lasts two 

 weeks in good cohditioii, and requires the same treatment as D./ormoswm. — India : 

 Khasya. 



Fig. — Paxton, Mag. Bot., v. 169, with tab. ; Paxtoii, Fl. Gard., ii. p. 133, f. 204. 



D. COLDIEI, Bc^6. /. — ^A very beautiful and distinct species, introduced 

 by us from Torres Straits, in the way of D. superbiens, but differing 

 from that species in having taller and more slender stems, longer and much 

 narrower leaves, and more brilliantly coloured flowers. The flowers grow 

 in drooping racemes from the upper part of the stems, and are of a rich claret- 

 purple ; the sepals lanceolate and tessellated with darker veins ; the petals ■ 



