Galeola.] CXX. ORCHIDEZ. 307 
to the stems of tree throwing out adventitious rootlets at the nodes 
pci the bracts, eee in long pendulous panicles. Flowe 
a brownish or go ellow, in short racemes or branches of th 
panicle, quite glabrous - en Bracts at the base of the pedicels 
and branches ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1 to 2 lines jong and those of the 
flowerless stems scarcely 3 lines, Pedicels and ova ary 3 to 4 lines. Sepals 
5 to 6 lines long, oblong-lanceolate, the dorsal one incurved, the lateral 
ones slightly fale ate; petals as long as the sepals but linear. Labellum 
white with transverse coloured bands, scarcely so lon pals, 
sessile, very broad, erect, concave, " almost convolute, pon! 3- 
lobed, "the baci jd lobes or obtuse angles short, erect and e e, the 
middle lobe very short and broad, spreading, Sulat crie po of 
the erect part with 2 raised longitudinal A eddie by a broad 
consistence mpl as waxy as in Dendrobium.— Dend 
. Cunn. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. under n. 1828 ; praia RN F. Muell 
Fragm. i. 239, ii. 167; Erythrorchis aphylla, F. Muell. F ragm. ii. 167. 
- Queensland. Moreton v F, Muell 
N. S. Wales. Hastings n Moke, Beckler ; New England, C. du! 
 & The species is very closel the Javanese G: altissima, which, judging 
Eom Mae's e's figu mul decr —- (onde Erythroreli has the same pollen; but 
nee specimens, to be sufficient differences in the flowers to 
E big distinct s ; Well pmi e Caroi not as species. I have only seen the 
ses in one flower, e they were certainly very much like those of a 
hey are distinctly feeribig. as waxy by F. Mueller, and by Blume in 
ips as “ solidiuscula 
consistence of bracts rather than of true leaves. Sepals and pe 
. long, the petals much narrower than the. sepals. 
roadly obovate, more contracted at the base than in G. cassy-, 
| w, f dong wading) 3 diverging on the lamina. Anthers with the broad 
^ppendage of G. cassythoides but flatter, and. the e med 
