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longer, and the petals purple at the base inside. The lip is much narrower. 

 -D. nohile Sanderianum, would appear to be very free-flowering " {Oardeners' 

 Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1888, iii. p. 554). 



Fig. — Seiclienbachia, ii. t. 58, 

 Syn. — D. noiile majut. 



D. NOBILE WALLICHIANUM, flbrt.— This beautiful variety has much taller 

 stems, darker foliage, and richer-coloured flowers than the type. It blooms during 

 the winter and spring months, and with care may be retarded until the summer, 

 when it makes a noble and valuable specimen for exhibition purposes. — India. 



Syn.—Z>. WalUcUi. 



D. NODATUM — See D. Aphrodite. 



D. OCHREATUM, Lindley. — K remarkably handsome deciduous species, of 

 drooping habit. The stems are about a foot long, stoutish, with thickened nodes 

 streaked and spotted with red ; _ the leaves are ovate-lanceolate acuminate, 

 oblique at the base, and sessile. The flowers are produced on the young growth 

 in March and April simultaneously with the leaves, the peduncles two-flowered, 

 the sepals and petals bright orange, the lip broad, roundish, cucullate from a 

 convolute base, villous, with a recurved margin, and a large sanguineous crimson 

 blotch in the centre. It lasts in beauty about a fortnight, and is best grown in a 

 basket with moss, and suspended from the roof. — India : Khasya Hills. 



Fig. — Bot. Mnq., t. 4450 ; Paxton, JIag. Hot., vi. p. 265, with tab. 



Syu. — J). Cambridgeanmii. 



D. OWENIANUM, O'Brien.— This was raised by N. C. Cookson, Esq., and 

 resulted from a cross between D. lAnawianum majus and D. Wardianum. 

 Mr. O'Brien describes it in the Gardeners' Chronicle as follows : — " The pseudo- 

 bulbs are stout and erect, showing markedly the swollen appearance below each 

 joint as seen in D. Linawianum ; the flowers are borne in twos and threes on 

 pedicels 2| to 3 inches in length, which carry the flowers free of the pseudobulbs 

 in a most graceful manner ; the flowers are over 3J inches across the expanded 

 petals, which are 1 inch wide, and slightly wavy at the edge; the sepals are 

 ligulate, the lateral ones pointed, and slightly curved back, white, faintly tinged 

 with lilac, and tipped with rosy-purple ; the petals are ovate-oblong, slightly 

 acuminate, pure white, tipped with rosy -purple ; the lip folded over the column 

 at the base, the blade broadly ovate, and terminating in a slightly recurved point 

 in the front ; the base of the labellum is blush-white, from which radiate purple 

 and dark purplish-crimson lines, which merge into a heavy blotch on the dark 

 yellow disk ; the anterior portion of the lip is pure white, tipped with rose-purple, 

 and the whole flower has a soft wax-like appearance " {Oardeners' Chronicle, 3rd 

 ser., 1893, xiii. p. 226). — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Gardening World, ix. p. 417 ; 6ard. Mag., 1893, p. 150. 

 Syn. — D. chUrontele Oweniamtm. 



D. PALLENS, Rort. Lawrence. — Sepals and petals white, tipped with pale rose; 

 lip yellowish-white, faintly tipped with rose at the apex. Flowers in January. 

 Sweet scented. It is a cross between B. Findlayanum and D. Ainsviorthii. — Garden 

 ' hylrid. 



