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Dichaea (From dicha bifarious)

(from dicha, bifarious; the leaves are in two rows). ORD. Orchideae. A genus of epiphytal stove Orchids, natives of the West Indies and tropical America. Flowers greenish, solitary, inconspicuous, axillary. Leaves small, ovate-oblong or linear, arranged in a two-ranked manner. Stems short, erect or creeping. There are about a dozen species known, only one of which, perhaps, is in general cultivation. D. picta thrives in a warm part of the Mexican house, if grown on a block of wood, with a little moss attached, to prevent the tender roots from drying too much.

D. picta (dotted). fl. light leek-green, with purplish dots, axillary; lip unguiculate, sagittate, without any crest; flower-stalks purplish; sepals cuneate-oblong, acute. l. distichous, numerous; laminae linear-lanceolate, acuminate, oblique, nearly perpendicular, glaucous. Trinidad, 1870. A very interesting and elegant little plant. (Ref. B. 84.)