De 
Dipodium.| CXX. ORCHIDEX. 301 
into a very short pouch, the lamina 3-lobed, the lateral lobes narrow. 
the middle lobe longer, oblong-ovate or rhomboidal, with a hairy or. 
ranous margin variously sinuate or toothed. Anther lid-like. Pollen- 
masses 2, deeply 2-lobed (or 4 in pee ruri attached to separate 
caudicles "proceeding e. a rather lar — Terrestrial wt - 
leafy stems when present simple with. y orsa: leaves. on 
long leafless scapes or rg erect axillary peduncles, with Abin 
scales imbricate at the base of the scape or peduncle, the upper distant 
ones passing into small bracts. Flowers rather large, ve an spotted. 
Besides the two ap ip oa species which a appe ar mi =k endemic, there are a few from 
New Caledonia , the Eastern Archipelago, and East I 
No vien Scales not numerous, ed imbricate at cer base of 
the scapes eoo e s s n n n 1 D. punctatum. 
Stems rens linear-lanceolate leaves. ^ Peduncles axillary . . . 2. D. enstfolium. 
D. punctatum, R. Br. Prod. 331. A leafless plant with thick 
bro: roots and erect stem attaining with the racemes 1 to 2 ft., the 
sheathing scales few and loosely imbricate and obtuse at the base, dis- 
tant high er up. Flowers rather large, more or less red and usually but 
not always spotted with purple, in a t iy bvr e sometimes ver su 
short sometimes oceupying a third of ee m. Sepal s and petals 
oium 
the sepals, the inner face pubescent. Pollen-masses 2, deeply 2- 
latéral y attached below the subulate ends of the caudicles. cft 00 
. li. 92, t. 127; Bot. Reg. t. Me Py ame f. Beitr. 45; Den- 
drobium punctatum, Sm. Exot. Bot. i. 21, 
N. Australia. Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 623 M narrow pale coloured sepals and 
petals, ier s not spotted). 
las Brisba ane seal Moreton bay, F. Mueller; Condamine river, Leich- 
ed yoskheniptib, O' Shanesy; Armidale, Perrott; Burdekin river and Mount 
iott, Fi vá 
enim a and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; Macleay river, Fitzgerald; 
New ` s England, c. "Stua 
aes Upper Tarts and Dandenong Range, F. Mueller; Glenelg river, 
in; 
Tasmania. Circular Head, Gunn; Port Soren and Cheshunt, in stony and moist 
Faces irme r growing near Eucalypti, Arc 
Ranges near Mount bn. F Mueller. 
i "mre of the labellum t Leni to be very variable in shape and ex The 
closely allied New Caledonian D.-squamatum differs chiefly in the more keen imbri- 
cate appressed and acute cnin at the base of the stem. 
l. Fragm. v. 42. ms leafy, from a few 
| 2. D. ensifolium, F. Mue 
. inches to rens Ift. Pigh oa the racemes. per distichous, com- 
. Plicate or canaliculate, linear-lanceolate, acute, strongly keeled and 
