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cibus radicantes. Folia 11—5" longa, lineam vix crassa, sparsa. 
Vaginz mox in fila eapillaria solut». Pedicelli circiter 3" longi, 
basi braeteola spathulata circiter 1" longa przditi. Sepala in 
statu sicco flavescentia, ex inventore albida ; supremum trinerve, 
cireiter 9" longum. Petala circiter 1" lata: Labellum obovato- 
cuneatum, albidum, fere semunciale, superne 2" latum; lobi 
laterales integerrimi, vix lineam longi ; medius lobos muticus ; costa 
flavescens, ad labelli apicem extensa, lineis tribus prominentibus 
crispatis eristata. Columna 2" longa, apice circum antheram 
denticulata.  Pollinia quatuor, geminatim connata, cylindraceo- 
ellipsoidea, flava, 1" longa, leviter curvata, facile separabilia. 
Fruetum non habeo. 
Sarcochilus Hillü. 
Dendrobium Hillii, F. M. Fragm. Phyt. Austr, i. 88. 
Caule brevissimo, foliis linearibus canaliculatis acutis v. imis 
lanceolato-linearibus planis, pedunculis tenuissimis racemoso pluri- 
floris, sepalis parvis albis v. roseis petala ovalia paulo superantibus, 
lateralibus rhombeo-ovatis, supremo ovato, labelli sepalis superati 
breviter biearinati albo-barbati lobis lateralibus brevibus obtusis, 
lobo medio carnoso pzne linguiformi. 
In silvis ad sinum Moreton Bay, W. Hill; ad flumen Clarence, 
H. Beckler. 
. Radices elongate, flexuoso- v. 'tortuoso-filiformes, procurrentes. 
Folia 13—4" longa, 1—11" lata, v. ima ad latitudinem 2-21" extensa, 
quasi triquetra, basi articulata. Racemi 1—2" longi. Pedicelli 
bracteolam cymbiformi-lanceolatam lineam cireiter longam acutam 
superantes. Sepala circiter 2" longa, fere cymbiformia, subtilissime 
trinervia. Labellum (olim statu tantum mutilato visum) albidum, 
sesquilineare, callis duobus aureis supra carinatum. Columna 
brevissima, rosea.  Anthera mobilis, bilocularis,  Polliniorum 
paria duo, globosa, pallida. Capsula trigono-cylindracea, j-11- 
pollicaris. 
LirrACE X. 
Agrostocrinum. 
Sepala sex, petaloidea, subzqualia, quinque-nervia, ovato- et 
lanceolato-oblonga, integerrima, basi in tubulum connata, parte 
inferiore persistentia, parte superiore post anthesin contorta et 
tandem decidua. Stamina sex, wqualia. Filamenta brevia, linearia, 
glabra. Anthere recto, tenui-filiformes, biloculares, basifixze, poro 
apicali aperte. Stylus filiformis. Stigma minutum, indivisum. 
Capsula truncato-ovata, pergamena, loculicide-trivalvata, vix an- 
gulata, apice impresso-triloba. Semina e basi cujuslibet loculi 
dua, erecta, estrophiolata, ovata, plano-convexa. Testa crustacea, 
levissima, 
CT. 
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