THE MOST USEFUL ORCHIDS 89 



sepals, petals and lip, the latter segment having also a broad yellow 

 disk. 



D. Dearii is a beautiful Orchid with stout stems two feet or 

 three feet high, and persistent leaves. The white flowers, each 

 with a yellow-green mark on the lip, appear in late Summer and 

 are produced in racemes, four or five together. It was found in 

 the Philippine Islands in 1882. 



D. Devonianum was found on the Khasia Hills by Gibson, 

 when collecting for the Duke of Devonshire, and was sent to 

 Chatsworth in 1837. ^^ ^^^ slender stems about three feet long, 

 and the flowers appear from the nodes along the greater part of 

 their length. Though the flowers are not large (about two inches 

 across), they are produced with great freedom, and a large plant in 

 a basket is a fine picture. The colour is creamy-white, but the 

 petals are purple tinted and the broader petals are tipped with deep 

 magenta-purple, while the lip is blotched with orange at the base 

 and has a purple tip and fringed margins. A deciduous Spring 

 flowering species. 



D. Falconeri, from Assam, grows from two feet to three feet 

 high, and flowers in Spring. The flowers are white, all the 

 segments being tipped with purple, while the lip has a purple base 

 and orange markings. In the variety D. F. albidulum the white 

 flowers are delicately suff'used with pale purple. 



D. Farmeri is an evergreen species closely allied to D. densi- 



Jiorum, but the numerous flowers are not so closely set upon the 



pendulous racemes as in the latter species. Each flower is about 



two inches across, straw-yellow, flushed with pink, with a large 



golden disk on the lip. It flowers in Spring or early Summer. 



D. FiMBRiATUM is a tall grower, its stems often reaching a 

 height of four or five feet. It is deciduous and carries its flowers 

 in loose pendulous racemes in the Spring. The rounded flowers are 



