DOSSINIA. 375 



D. RACEMOSA, ii'ni;.— A desirable and I'roo-gi-owiug species. Loaves four 

 to six, radical, spreading lanceolate acuminate; scape erect, from 1 foot to 

 18 inches high or oven more when vigorous, somewhat flexuose, clothed 

 with numerous bracts, which are sheathing at the base, becoming smaller 

 upwards, and appressed, terminating in a many-flowered secund raceme; the 

 flowers are showy, of a rosy-purple hue, and measure some 3 inches across; 

 dorsal sepal helmet-shaped, acute, erect, gibbous at the back; lateral sepals 

 plain, spreading, oblong acute ; petals small, obliquely oblong, incurved at the 

 apex, and arching over the anther, of a deeper hue than the sepals ; lip sub- 

 filiforme, acuminate ; column erect, or ascending. — Cape of Good Hope. 



Via.— Bot. Mag., t. 702] ; Orchid Allum, viii. t. 3.56 ; Gard. Ckron., 3rcl ser., 1887, 

 iii. p. 593, f. 81 ; Juunt. of Ilort., 1883, xvii. p. 221, f . 25 ; Thi^ Gardm, 1891, xxxix. 

 p. lU,t. 786. 



D. TRIPETALOIDES, iV. E. Broii:n. — A very free-flowering species, requiring 

 the same treatment as D. grandiflora. The leaves are arranged in the form of a 

 rosette at the base, and are lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat coriaceous in 

 texture, and of a shining green ; stem erect, clothed below with large alternate 

 sheathing acuminate bracts, which, however, rapidly decrease in size upwards ; 

 it attains 1 foot or 18 inches in height, and bears a somewhat lax raceme of from 

 fifteen to thirty flowers, each bloom measuring 1 inch across, the sepals being 

 the portion of the flower most in evidence ; dorsal sepal helmet- shaped, which 

 tei'minates behind in a short conical spur ; the lateral sepals are large for the 

 size of the flower, oblong rounded, all creamy white, flushed more or less with 

 flesh colour, and dotted with crimson ; petals small, falcate ; lip linear, oblong. — 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



Fia.~OrcJi!d Album, x. t. 162 ; Uot. J/ar/.. t. 720G : Gard- Chron., 3rd ser., 1890, 

 vii.p. 7GS, f. 127. 



D. UNIFLORA — See D. geandiploka. 



D. VEITCHII.— A beautiful hybrid between D. rjrandiflora and B. mcemosa. 

 The flowers are intermediate in size between the two parents, of a pleasing rosy- 

 purple colour. Flowers in summer months. — Garden hylrid. 



Fig.— Jok™. (/7/i)rf.,1891,xxli.p. 165,f. 89 ; The G^a?'&n, 1892, viii. p. 408, t. 882. 



DOSSINIA, Morrcn. 



(Tribe Neottieae, mltrihe Spiranthcao.) 

 This genus is closely allied to Anoedochilus, differing chiefly in its 

 spnrless three-lobed lip, the claw of which is entire, and the middle lobe 

 dilately bi-lobed. Only one species, a Bornean plant, familiar in our 

 Orchid houses as A noedochilus Lowii, is known. 



Culture. — The cultural treatment is the same as that of Anoedochilus, 

 under which genus it is explained in detail. 



