Drymoda
(from drymodes, woody; plants epiphytal on branches of trees). ORD. Orchideae. A genus which contains--so far as is at present known--only the species described below. It is one of the smallest and most curious of Orchids, and, until it flowered at Kew in 1871, was only known by a drawing made by Griffiths in the Malayan Peninsula, in 1835. It grows in a warm house, on pieces of hard wood to which the bark remains attached. D. picta (painted). fl. solitary, surmounting a slender scape 1in. to 1 1/2in. long, proceeding form the rhizome under the preceding bulb; 2/3in. long from the dorsal sepal to the lip, inclined or horizontal; dorsal sepal small, acute, yellow-green; lateral sepals yellow-green, with dull purple bands forming wings at the apex of a long, curved, green, purple-spotted stipe, which projects from the base of the column; the latter furnished with two long yellow purple-spotted wings. Pseudo-bulbs clustered, discoid, dull green, with a minute central mammilla from which springs a very deciduous leaf. Moulmein, 1871. (B. M. 5904.)