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D. SCULPTUM, Rchb.f. — A cliarming species, in habit somewhat resembling 

 D. formosum, but the stems are shorter and not quite so stout. The leaves arc 

 oblong acute, slightly downy. The flowers are produced from the top of the 

 matured bulbs, and average from four to five in a ra-ceme ; the sepals and petals 

 are pure white, and the obovate emarginate lip of the same colour, with a distinct 

 orange blotch in the centre, the base of the lip being marked on each side by 

 numerous minute transverse rugae. These flowers measure about 2 inches across, 

 and, although not so large as in D. formosum, will be found more valuable for 

 cutting. It blooms at various times of the year, and lasts a good while in 

 perfection. — Borneo. 



Fig. — Xenia Orcli., ii. t. 146. - 



D. SENILE, Parish. — One of the most curious of Orchids, quite dwarf in habit, 

 the stems fusiform, 6 inches long, covered as are the two or three leathery obovate 

 leaves with short white hairs. The flowers are of a bright yellow colour, the 

 three-lobed lip having besides a green blotch on each side of the disk, which is 

 deep orange ; they are abundantly produced in pairs, and continue in full beautj- 

 for a considerable time. — Moulmein. 



Fis. — Sot. Mag., t. 5520 ; Xonla Oreh., ii. 1. 155 ; Bateman, Second Cunt. Orch. PI., 

 t. 147. 



D. SMILLIAE, von MiXller. — This beautiful Dendrohe is described by the late 

 Professor Eeichenbach in the Gardeners' Chronicle, x.s., 1886, xxvi. p. 552, as 

 follows : — " The buds stand all transverse, nearly rectangular on the main axis. 

 Their rose peduncles and stalked ovaries, chins, and bases of sepals, make a 

 neat contrast with the light green of the other parts of the sepals ; the open 

 flowers are bent donTi, and form a light green mass, embellished by the dark 

 tips of the sepals and petals, and the much darker calceolar apices of the lips." 

 A splendid spike was received by us from W. E. Brymer, Esq., of Dorchester, 

 from which the above description was drawn up. It contained over a 

 hundred large flowers, and measured 4 inches high, and 2^ inches broad. — 

 Queenslaiid. 



D. SPECIOSUM, Smith. — ^A very old species which flowered in the Liverpool 

 Botanic Garden as long ago as 1831. The flowers are small and do not expand 

 fully, for which reason it has never found much favour in the eyes of Orohidists. 

 It produces large dense many- flowered spikes of yellowish- white fragrant flowers. 

 • — Eastern Australia. 



Fig.— Sot. Mag., t. 3074 ; Sot. Seg., t. 1610. 



D. SPECIOSUM BANCROFTIANUM, Rchh. /.—This variety was introduced 

 by Dr. Bancroft. It has more slender flowers than the preceding, and the lip is 

 paler. — Australia. 



D. SPECIOSUM HILLII, HooJe. — A bold-habited and rather striking variety, 

 but the stems, which are stout terete and many ribbed, are fully twice as long as 

 those of D. speciosum, surmounted by four to six elliptic or oblong thick leathery 

 dark green leaves, and the terminal racemes of flowers are much longer and more 

 graceful ; the long narrow sepals and petals are narrower and of a creamy- white. 



