502 ORCHIDES. 



SARCOCHILUS, 



sublanceolata, obtiisa, ab ungue columnae omnino libera, cum sepalo al* 

 tero distincto pendulo parallela. Labellum carnosum, ungue longe pro- 

 ducto lineari erecto , cum basi columnae continuum, trilobum , antice 

 cornutum, mucrone inflexo, disco tuberculatum. Columna nana, semi- 

 teres , aptera , pollinia 4, in paribus globosis coadunata ; retinaculo li- 

 neari, Rostellum bifidum. 



Herba epiphyla ; radicibus longis tortuosis supra frulicum ramos repetentibus. 



Folia lanceolata, falcata, disticha, basi articulata. Racemus simplex, strictus, foliorum 



longitudine. 



Gtinnia aiislralis Lindl. 1. c: 



Hab. in Insula Van Diemen, in sinu Emu : Backhouse (hab, s. spec, com. cel. Gun.). 



Tola plania vix 2 pollices excedens. Sepala et petala luteo-viridia, Labelluni 

 verosimiiiter album, vel leviler rubescens, lobis lateralibus oblongis oblusis ; tuber- 

 culis 4, luteis, quorum 2 exteriores majores, 



Iluc monente ipso ill. auct. Fragm, phyt. Austral. L p. 243 : Sarcochilus Bar- 

 kleijantis F. Miill. 



34. SARCOCHILUS ADYERSUS Hook. fll. Bot, of New Zealand 241 : 



Caule brevissimo, foliis linearioblongis obtusis , racemis multifloris, 

 floribus minimis , sepalis petalisque late oblongis obtusis , labello con- 

 cavo, disco lineis incrassatis aucto apice calioso. Epidendrum adversum. 

 Banks et Sol. Mss. et Ic. 



S. parviflorus is a short steninied herb, with very long fibrons aerial roots, runn- 

 ing along the trunks of trees, Leaves threc to five, distichous, sliorlly .shealliing at 

 ihe base, coriaceous , linear oblong. blunt. IVa— ^Va inches long. Flowers very small, 

 (leshy, ratlier crowded in axillary pedunculate racemes, which are shorter. ihan ihc 

 lenves, while purple. Bracteae membranous , shorter than -the germen. Sepals 

 broadly oblong, blunt. lower broadest, united below lo the base of the lip. Petals 

 smnller. oblong, blunt. Lip continuous with the base of column . very thick and 

 fleshy, orbicular, very concave . niargins recurved, blunt, wilh a thick, lobed callus 

 at llie lowcr end; disk concave, with ihickened ridges. Column short. Anther two- 

 celled. Pollens four, waxy, globular , closely united in pairs, seated on a flat broad 

 canilicle. which is Gxed by a broad gland to ihe sligma. 



Northern Island. Opuragi. Banksjand Solander. Bay of Islands and Wairarapa. 

 Edgerley, Colenso. 



Obs. Sarcochili parviflori nomine ill. Ilook. fil, plantam priraum salutasse ex hcr- 

 b.irio Lindleyano intellexi. Jam lapsu quodam noraen in descriptione in Fl. Nov. 

 Zel. remansit. 



1406. TRIGOIVIBIOI Lindl. 



Bot. Reg, 1837. XXIII. 1923. 



Sepala aequalia, semiherbacea, in cyathum trigonum isocelem cohae- 

 renlia, apice patula, petahi cuiollina, duplo minora, venosa. Labellum 

 nanum, trilobum, cum columna iuliculalum, medio carnosum. Columna 

 nana, libera, semiteres, anthera unilocularis , poUinia 4, cohaerentia, 

 minoribus dorsalibus , in glandulam Iriangularem, sligma parvum tri- 

 angulare tcgenlem insidenlia. Herbac epiphytae amerjcanae rJiizomate 

 repentc florifero et pseudobulbifero. Folia coriacea. Pedunculi erecli uni- 



A. Perigonium cxternum cyathiformi connivens. 



1. TRIGOMDU.M LATIFOLIUM Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1837. XXIH. 1923: 



