Phaius.] CXX. ORCHIDEJ. 305 
or 3 oblong or ovate-lanceolate leaves often yxp 1 ft. long, narrowed 
into a long petiole. Scapes radical, 9 to 4 ft. high, bearing a loose 
raceme of large showy flowers. Sepals nid petals broadly lanceolate, 
1i to near 2 in. long, pras utside, cinnamon-brown inside. Labellum 
Mag. t.1994; Phaius australis, F. Muell. F ragm. i 
Muell. Fragm. iv. e P unis F. ‘ual Ph enS ET 19. 
Queensland. More or and island, A. Cunningham, M'Gillivray ; Booking 
ham gà a: A. Cunningham, D allachy ; prs Elliott's island, Burdekin Ex MAAE 
- S. Wales. Macleay river, Fitzgerald; Tweed river, Herb. F. Mueller 
2. P. ornaysli; Ronl. ; Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1873, 361. me: 
stature foliage and inflorescence of P. grandifolius, from which it is 0 
to be distinguished by the colour of the flower of a pale yellow inde, 
ihe labellum also yellow edged with white. The spur of the labellum 
. appears in the two flowers accompanying the wild specimen to be rather * 
straighter than in the common species, but curved in the cultivated 
plant. Reichenbach refers it to P. Blumei, distinguished by the labellum 
acute not notched in the centre, but this appears to vary much from 
2 to specimen.— P. Blanes var. Bernaysti, Reichb. f. in Bot. Mag. 
Z Moreton bay, Bernays. 
18. CALANTHE, R. Br. 
. Sepals and petals nearly equal, free, spreading, Me lateral sepals 
sometimes shortly adnate to the labellum at the base. Labellum con- 
nate at the base with the column in a sort of cup, u saalis produced into 
a ppor rat the base, the lamina spreading, lobed or undivided, the disk 
t 
Richer" lid-like. Pollen-masses 8, tapering to the base and there 
fixed to a divisible gland — Terrestrial DP saman. or nearly so. 
1 "White or 
he genus di d tropical Asia and the islands of the Pacifie, with one 
E Mexican me. Pago sig eret species extends over the Arinae and ne 
1 East Indian Peninsula. 
1 C. v ratrifolia, Asap in Bot. Reg. under n. 573, ‘Rhizome 
3 sory hber] with fre of 2 or 3 leaves, sometimes forming a very 
. Short ‘stem or pseudobulb at the base. Leaves 1 to 2 ft. long, ovate- 
Bine. plicate undulate and deed ribbed, tapering into a petiole 
which is 8 again dilate ted at the base Scapes us onmi 
