304 CXX. ORCHIDEJE. [ Spathoglottis. 
16. SPATHOGLOTTIS, Blume. 
Sepals and petals nearly equal, free, aee Labellum articulate 
at the base of the column, concave or saccate at the base, deeply 
8-lobed, the middle lobe contracted at the ba and bearing prominent 
tubercles or calli. Column erect , free, more or less dilated or 2-winged 
wards. Anthers terminal, lid- like, 2-celled. Pollen-masses 8, of 
which 4 usually smaller, waxy, with very short separate caudicles with- 
out any common gland. — Terrestrial herbs with subterranean tuberous 
rhizomes. Leaves usually long, plicate and strongly ribbed. Racemes 
on erect scapes, leafless except sheathing scales. Bracts usually rather 
rge. 
lar 
The 
MIS Tut. €— allied to one ranging over the Archi ipela 
l. Fragm. vi. 95. "Tubers small. _ Leave 
is dispersed over tropical Asia; the only Anstralian species perhaps. 
ago. 
cate sid Jesi ri be ; Scapes cre or aom a short 
raceme of “purple” flowers.  Bracts lanceolate, abou t lin. long; 
KESAN about lin. Sepals and etale about 5 lines long. Labellum 
about as long, very short and concave below the lobes, the lateral lobes 
cami La slightly spathulate and incurved, the middle lobe scarcely 
EA mran, -e or emarginate, contracted much below the 
not much € than the sepals, slightly dilated upwards.—Bletia 
. Le 
Que imi berto bay, Dallach ek near the S. plicata, Blume (S. 
ddkcind, ‘Gri if ), but the flowers are rather smaller, and the shape of the — lobe of 
the labellum different. The few flowers seen were, dove nt in a good st. 
17. PHAIUS. Lour. 
~ Sepals and petals nearly equal, free, spreading. Labellum broad, 
produced into a spur at the base, erect and convolute round the column, 
entire or 3-lobed and more or less spreading at the top. Column semi- 
puces elongated. Anther lid-like. Pollen-masses 8, nearly equal 
or 4 shorte T, waxy, attached to the branches of a dichotomous caudicle, 
but no gla sind. Trj strial herbs, the leafy stems short and thickened 
into pseudobulbs or almost stemless. Leaves large. Scapes radical, 
tall, erect, leafless except sheathing scales imbricate at the base, distant 
on the stem and passing into the bracts. Flow wers large and show 
over tropical and subtropical Of the two Aaii 
species or de Me is the same as an Archi ipdladé obe, one, ‘the other may be endemic, 
but is not sufficie own. - 
Sepals and petals ras inside 8€ TQUE © be el E Hi randifolius. 
Sepals and petals yellow mmda . $2.0 xi x ioi» ernaysi. - 
; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Oreh i do Stems 
. P. grandifoli 
tufted usually thickened jas short pseudobulbs at the base, bearing 2 — 
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