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D. MACRANTHUM.-See D. supeebum. 



D. MACROPHYLLUM, Hort.—See D. superbum. 



D. MACROPHYLLUM, A. Richard. — A fine and distinct species, perhaps more 

 curious than beautiful, but so remarkable as to be well worth a place in 

 collections. The stems are about a foot high, olavate, deeply furrowed in the 

 upper, thickened portion, and terminated by three or four oblong unequally 

 bi-lobed pale green leaves, from the centre of which springs the erect raceme, 

 1 foot high, many-flowered, and nodding at the apex, the blossoms being 2 inches 

 in diameter, hairy externally ; the sepals are greenish yellow, and the smaller 

 spathulate petals dirty white, while the large dilated lip is yellowish-green, the 

 side lobes radiately marked with forked purple veins, and the middle lobe 

 bearing a few radiating lines of purple dots. Altogether a singular and very 

 interesting plant, which at first received the name of D. Veitchianum, but proves 

 to be a form of B. inacrophyllum ; the type plant of Richard has, according to 

 Sir J. D. Hooker, both larger leaves and longer flower spikes — perhaps the 

 result of excessive luxuriance in its native clime. — Java, in liot jungles. 



Fm.— Rich. Vuy. Asti:, t. 9 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5649 ; De Vi: lllust., t. 5 ; 0i-clii4 

 Album, viil. t 3.S9. 



Syn. — JD. Veitchianum ; D. inacrophyllum Veitchianum. 



D. MACROPHYLLUM DAYANUM, ^.£oit'.— This is considered to be a superior 

 variety to the Java plant. — Borneo. 



D. MACROPHYLLUM VEITCHIANUM.-See D. maceophyllum. 



D. MARGINATUM.— See D. xanthophlebium. 



D. MARMORATUM, Bclib. f. — ^A very pretty species, allied to D. iransparens. 

 The sepals and petals are white, blotched at the extremities with purple, and the 

 ciliate lip is purple. — BurmaJi. 



D. MELANODISCUS, BclA. /.—Another one of Sir Trevor Lawrence's 

 hybrids, the result of a cross between D. Findlayanum and D. Ainsicorthii. The 

 pseudobulbs are intermediate between the two parents ; the sepals are white 

 tipped and suffused with purple ; the petals also white with rosy-purple tips ; the 

 lip is yellowish- white tipped with rosy-purple, having a dark reddish-purple area 

 on the basilar portion. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — .Tourn. of Sort., 1891, xxii. p. 261, f. 48 (var. pallcns) ; Reichenhachia , 2nd 

 ser., i. t. 12. 



D. MELANOPHTHALMUM, Jic7i6./.— This is supposed by Eeichenbach to be a 

 natural hybrid : " Here is a Dendrohe apparently originated by a cross between 

 Bendrobiwm Wardianum and D. crassiiiode. The stems are nearly those of D. 

 Wardianum, though one must admit they are a little more nodate. The flowers are 

 those of JDendrohium crassinode Barberianum, but there are two dark eye-spots. 

 That gives you an idea of the plant" (H. G. Eeichenbach, in Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, n.s., 1886, xxv. p. 426). — Burmah. 



Syn. — D. crassimdi- Wardianum. 



