South Wales to Rockingham Bay, whereas D. punctata ranges 
from the former district southward to Victoria; the flowers 
are usually much smaller than those here figured, but Clarence 
Bay specimens have them quite as large. The plant figured 
here flowered in August last in the open border from tubers 
sent by Thos. Moore, F.L.S., Director of the Sydney Botanic 
Garden. a 
Duscr. Tubers as large as nuts, lobed. Stem eight to 
sixteen inches high, slender. eaves shorter than the stem, 
usually two only, sometimes one or none, very narrow, linear, 
concave; sheaths about two, loose or appressed. Bracts 
two inches long, erect, acuminate, loosely sheathing. Fowers 
about two, very variable in size, two-thirds to three and a half 
inches in diameter from the tips of the petals to those of the 
lateral sepals. Dorsal sepals ovate, obtuse, concave, white : 
lateral deflexed, sometimes two and a half inches long, green 
with a brown-purple central stripe. Pedals clawed, ovate, 
white, the claw brown-purple with white edges. Lip with 
two small subquadrate toothed lateral, and a large trapezoid 
mid-lobe, pale rosy-coloured or nearly white; disk with two 
raised lobed keels that are speckled with red. Staminodes 
falcate. Column very short.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with sepals and petals removed :—magnified. 
