306 CXX. ORCHIDEJE. [ Calanthe. 
outer leaf, 2 to 4 ft. high, the flowers rather crowded near the summit. 
Pedicels spreading, 4 to lin. long, recurved after flowering. Sepals 
and petals white, obovate-oblong, gently 5 lines long, the petals usually 
broader and more contracted at the base than the sepals. dabe um 
much longer, the spur cn hes n.long and usually pubescent, the 
imina rn lobe d with the middle lobe deeply bifid, the 4 lobes SUME 
and sometimes nearly equal, ee variable in breadth as well as in the 
M. pd. to which they are divided, the callosities of the disk 
ellow. Capsule obovoid-ob Am ADM li in. long. —Bot. Reg. t. 720; 
ot. Mag. t. 2615. 
iconsland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy; Brisbane river, Moreton bay, F. 
Hastings Dye. PENA ; Richmond river, Henderson; Tweed 
sive Guilpoples Wc arra, A. Cun 
Th tralian specimens, pen uting the australis, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 
Ciitho, Bor 8, foren generally to have the lobes of the labellum rather broader than 
In 
TRIBE 4. AneTHusex.—Anther lid-like, incumbent, usually deci- 
dk "Pollen granular or mealy. Terres trial or rarely epiphytes. 
Stems in the Australian genera or sections leafless at the time of 
flowering. 
19. GALEOLA, Lour. 
(Erythrorchis, Blume; Ledgeria, F. Muell.) 
a a ar pow aey — in length, didum or open, 
dors 
incurved round. "the eu n p lateral lobes f> ti short and erect or 
with 2 raised longitudinal lines 
Anth like, incumbent, with a broad flat or convex dorsal appen- 
dage, 2-celled. Pollen granular-farinaéeous or almost waxy, in ly 
2-lobed distinct masses, without any caudicle or gland.—Leafless epi- 
ed 
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3: 
owers in terminal usually pendulous panicles. | 
the branches and panicles small or large, but always concave and half- . 
stem-clasping 1 
Besides the Australian species, one of which is closely allied to a Javanese one; the pr 
re bes or three others from East India, the Archipelago, and ue obi m New Cale- 
genus appears to have been quite corredtty. referre d by chenbach Li 
tho ulscla of Loureiro, and I should also concur,in the retention nt Cyrtosia, Bl., a8 — 
istinct. 
Bracts scarcely lin. long. Labellum pubescent inside betwee 
the raised lines which end in a transverse callus. Pollen at g 
s . 1. Q. cassythoides. 
Bracts 1102 in. . long. Labellum glabrous Between the raised 
lines which converge into one, we lamina on each side — : 
with diverging lines fringed with small pene hairs, . 2. G. foliata... 
