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D, MONILIPORME, 8wartz. — This is by no means an exhibition <plaiit,Pbut 

 although it cannot lay claim to much beauty, its flowers, which are pure white, 

 with a few purple spots on the lip, yield a delicious fragrance; The stems are 

 fascicled, terete, pendulous, about a foot long, with linear-lanceolate blun^ish 

 leaves, which fall away and are succeeded by the fragrant white flowers, which grow 

 solitary or in pairs from the upper nodes, and are about 1| inch m diameter. 

 Being a native of Japan and the adjacent islands, it will make a good addition 

 to the cool-house Orchids, and will doubtless be very useful for cutting for 

 decoration. The plant so long known in gardens as D. moniliforrne was not the 

 one originally so called, and has now been named D. Linawiamim. — Japan. 



Fm.—JBot. Mag.,t. 3482 ; Ilooh. First Cent. Oreh. PI., t; 11. 

 Syn, — JO.japonieuni ; OnyeJdmnjapcmicViiH.' 



D. MOSCHATUM, Wallich.- — A handsome evergreen species, which produces 

 stout pendulous terete striated stems 4 to 6 feet long, furnished with oblong or 

 oblong-ovate somewhat leathery striated leaves, and bearing pendent racemes of 

 eight or ten large flowers from the sides of the old stems near the top. The 

 flowers are large and spreading, 3| inches across, of a creamy buff suffused with 

 rose, the lip slipper-shaped, pale yellow, darker at the base, and ornamented 

 within on each side with a large eye-like blotch of deep blackish-purple ; they 

 are agreeably musk-scented. It blossoms in May and June, and lasts about a 

 week in a fresh state. — India : Easiem Peninsula. 



Fia.—Sot. Mag., t. 3837 ; 3Iah.7id. Bat., i. t. 37 ; Wall. PI. A-t. Mar., t. 195 : Paxton, 

 J/ag. Sot., ii. p. 241, with tab. ; Rook. Ex. Fl., iii. t. 184 ; Puydt, Lcs Orch., t. 15 ; Hart. 

 Parad., iii. t. 7 ; Hvoli. First Cent. Orch. PL, t. 13. 



Syx. — D. Calceolaria. 



D. MOSCHATUM CUPREUM, Mchh. /.—A large-growing evergreen plant, 

 which has been cultivated under the name of B. C'alceolus, that being apparently 

 a misreading of D. Calceolaria, a synonym of D. moscliatum, under which all 

 these plants are sometimes included. It has stout pendulous stems 4 feet long 

 when well grown, and bears its flowers in racemes of twelve or more together, 

 which proceed from the top of the old stems. The flowers are large, butlnot 

 equal in size to those of B. moschatum; the sepals and petals apricot-yellow, and 

 the slipper-shaped lip of a deeper golden yellow with an orange-coloured spot on 

 each side near the base. It blooms during the summer months, lasting a week 

 in perfection. This is best grown in a pot with moss and peat. — Iiidia. 



Fia.— Orchid Album, iv. t. 165. 



Syn. — D. Calceolus, Hort. ; D. cupreum. 



D. MOULMEINENSE.— See D. inpundibuluh, 



D. MURRHINIACUM, JJc/i6./.— This hybrid was first flowered in 1888 by E. 

 H. Measures, Esq., of Streatham, and is said to be a cross between B. mobile and 

 B. Wardianum. The pseudobulbs resemble those of the last-named parent. The 

 late Professor Eeichenbach says of it :— " The flower is equal to that of a good 

 B. Wardianum, snow white, with purple tips to the sepals and petals ; the lip has 

 a large purple obcordate blotch at the base of the disk, with some lateral darker 

 stripes, and a light purple apex." — Garden hybrid. 



