Bolbophyllum.) CXX. ORCHIDEX. 289 
into a short broad pouch. Petals scarcely half as long as the sepals. 
Labellum nearly as long as the sepals, linear, thick and channelled, 
tapering and slightly recurved towards the end.—Dendrobium exiguum, 
F. Muell. Fragm. v. 95. A 
N. S. Wales. Blue Mountains, Caley, Woolls ; northward to Hastings river, 
Beckler; Richmond and Tweed rivers, C. Moore; Bellinger ranges, Fitzgerald; 
southward to Illawarra, A. Cunningham. 
Var. lachyi. Pseudobulbs rather larger and more ovoid. Flowers white, the 
sepals and labellum rather broader than in the N. S. Wales specimens and the petals 
. rather larger, but the specimens imperfect. 
ueensland. Boddüghdda bay, Dallachy. . j 
` The species is very closely allied to the New Zealand R. pygm«us, but that has 
depressed-globular pseudobulbs and apparently differently shaped flowers, with a more 
ent spur or pouc 
usually abo in. long. Leaves solitary, narrow-oblong, contracted 
at the base, mostly 1 to 2 in. long, the midrib prominent underneath 
in um es including the peduncle 6 high 
* mg, wit 
spreading, oblong, thick and ques grooved on the upper surface. 
lumn short, with 2 prominent teeth.— Cirrhopetalum Elise, F. Muell. 
ragm. vi. 120, t. 57. 
| N. S. Wales. Blue Mountains, C. Moore; Vale of Clwyd, Vicary; Clarence 
. river, Beekler; New England, C. Stuart.—Although technically approaching Cirrho- 
etalum in the shortness of the dorsal sepal, this has not the peculiar inflorescence and 
abit of that genus, nor yet all its essential characters. 
5. PHREATIA, Lindl. 
(Plexaure, Endl.) 
or connivent, the lateral ones dilated at 
Sepals nearly equal, erect: 
he basal ar ene of the column, forming a 
the base and adnate to t 
oduced at the base, the membranous margin of the apex entire. 
P 
 tichous, their persistent bases loosely imbricate. Flo 
minute, on exceedingly short pedicels, in axillary racemes. 
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