274 CXX. ORCHIDEX. | Liparis. 
dorsal sepal and. petals linear, about 3 lines ns. the petals still 
narrower than the sepal Labellum as long as the lateral sepals, 
recurved from the middle, broadly Jesi ipia embracing and 
adnatb to the column at the base, obtuse or retuse, the disk with 2 
small proisinex —Ó Anther-cells at some distance from eac 
uell. l.c. 
other m the anther-case.— Sturmia habenarina, 
Queensland. Rockinghanı mi Dalla. Very bil "alid to the L. ferru- 
ginea, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, 55, from Borneo and Malacca, and perhaps a 
variety; but that species d a dark brown labellum seating its colour in the dried 
state, and from a note in Herb. Lindley, has no calli on the disk, Mein the L. habe- 
narina has the labellum of the same pale yellow as the rest of the flow 
2. OBERONIA, Lindl. 
Sepals free, nearly equal and erect, or the dorsal one smaller and 
reflexed. Petals narrower or shorter than the sepals, Labellum 
sessile, concave, entire or variously divided, often cushion-like or 
keeled at the base and usually embracing the column. Column a ver 
short, EUN Wege at the base, the apex with angular margins. 
Anther li = like. Pollen masses 4, waxy, closel 
- be irs Ps in Ron f alling away in one ud sometimes oblique and 
distichous, —— ant. Flowers j 
dense ra arca pedicels bae the bracts sm 
The genus is eren over ee Asia the Indian Archipelago — west- 
ward to the Mascarene islands, and paced to the South Pac Of the two A 
t 
alawis, from which it differs but very little in the structure of the flowers, but th 
vegetative characters and geographical distribution appear to be sufficient to maintain 
it as distinct, 
Bracts ovate, fringed-ciliate. We we, OION GARED S ^ 0. iridifolia.. 
Bracts lanceolate, fine-pointed, wis 2d odi fa boinaigos . Q. palmicola. 
1. O. iridifolia, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 15, and Fol. beg Leafy - 
stems very short and thick, Ay fone ening toli in. Leaves 3 to To 
dele 
n 
2-lobed at the end, about jJ line long, Sepals smaller. Capsule 1} to 
2 lines es long, prominently angled.—Malawis iridifolia, Reichb. f. in Walp. 
Ann 
Brisbane river, F. Mueller; Rockhampton, 
Que . eapeciell? Crocodile 
hs heuer Thozet, Q' Shanesy, Dallachy ; also in East India and 
the Archi- 
2. O. palmicola, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 24. A small delicate — 
Mule species with the habit of some of the smaller E. Indian on 
