Pholidota. | CXX. ORCHIDER. 291 
flexuose rhachis when the flowers are out. Pedicels about 3 lines long. 
Sepals ovate-lanceolate, about 3 lines; petals rather oo peri 
about as long as the sepals, the concave almost erect, 
bordered by the short broad. lateral lobes, the middle rohs ined than 
long, the margin undulate and more or less distinctly 3-lobed. Column 
about 1} lines long, the margins winged upwards. Capsule ME 
about j in. rd —Bot. Reg. t. 1213; Wight e t. 907;. F. Muell. 
Fragm. iv 163. 
Queensland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.—This species is common in E. India 
and the. Fever a the Australian tpe uvae slightly in the rather larger 
bracts. Dallachy describes the flowers as ye 
rosie K 2. VANDER. Taury lid-like, MONS usually deci- 
duous. Pollen-masses waxy, 4 in pairs, on a single r double caudicle 
itiha toa gland. piers Ces or terrestrial with ssi Ap rhizomes. 
7. TMNIOPHYLLUM, Blume. 
Sepals and petals nearly equal, erect or connivent, connate at the 
base. Labellum adnate to the column at the base and produced into a 
short spur or pouch, entire (or shortly 2- lobed ?). Column very short 
erect, WB. 2 teeth in front. ` Anther terminal, lid-like. Pollen-masses 
E in D pairs, with a short slender caudicle. "Gland minute.—E iphy- 
|. tical hats, ‘almost pineal os and leafless or with a tuft of linear leaves. 
Flowers minute, in small slender racemes. 
. The genus has been found also in Java and in Ceylon; the FE species is 
probably endemic 
T. Muelleri, Lindl. Herb, Stems dye scarcely ions 1 line 
inel eniting long linear a Bl roots, Aud x r 3 filiform scapes of 
Bra 
Sahelian linear, as ja as the sepals, and in the only flower I could 
examine appeared to be shortly 2-lobed at the end, with a minute toot 
between the lobes, 2 a ouch or spur obtuse, about 1 line long.— 
Sarcochilus Baileyi, F Il. Herb. 
Queensland. On trees near Brisbane, y. Hil, C. Prentice, Bailey. 
8. SARCOCHILUS, Br. 
(Thrixspermum, Lour.; Gunnia, Lindl.) 
als tals nearly equal, free, spreading, the lateral sepals 
Sai more or n aes at the base and adnate to the basal projection 
of the colum llum articulate at the end of the basal projection 
of the obit ted any spur at its base, S-lobid.d the eee lobes 
rather large, the terminal one (in the Australian s very 
short and tooth-like or cushion-like, with a solid fleshy dorsal pe AA 
