396 CXX: ORCHIDER. AM 
about j in.; dorsal sepal and labellum nearly equal in length an nd | 
shorter has the petals. Lateral lobes of the column more frequently | 
dentate than in D. e but variable.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. - 
509; B f. Beitr. 13. 
Que and. Port PA owen and Shoalwater omms: R. Brown; Brisbane river, 
Cs apart Cunningham ; Rockhampton and vicinity, Bowman, Thozet, ME 
Daliad Downs, Law; Wide bay, Bidwill ; em Sand Bowman ; Rockingham bay, 
allachy on J 
Port Macquarrie, a aega Tweed river, C. Moore; New Zea- ; 
land, D jeder Ole river, Wilco , 
ingle specimen from Warwick in n Her b. F, Mueller has tent; long pr con lateral 
sepals, Rar the rest of the he: very siia the colour not m oned ; other dirin 
er, an ; 
lateral spes pode lin.long and rather broad. He lateral lobes of the ee E 
riable 
are very v n their ‘venation, sometimes broad at the apex and many-nerve 
o 
the column, one may e bud ov erlap t the lábelluin and the other be wholly inside, one ; 
with the nerve reaching almost to the apex, T eive with it visible only halfway up. — 
2. D. punctata, Sm. Exot. Bot. i. 19, t. 8. Stems 1 to 2 ft. high, 
or even more. Leaves usually 2, eer 8 to 6 in. long, with 2 empty - 
sheathing bracts above them Flowers 2 or 3, blue or purplish, often ~ 
dotted but not blotched like several of the yellow species, the acuminate | 
bracts often but not always exceeding the ovary. Dorsal sepal in the - 
typical form broadly ovate-oblong, 7 to 8 lines long; lateral sepals 
exed, very narrow, nearly 2 in. long. Petals broadly elliptical- 
a near y 1 in. long including a claw of about 2 lines. Label 
about as long as the dorsal sepal, "divided at the base into 3 lobes, the - 
middle lobe obovate-oblong, the lateral ones about one-third as long, 
oblong-falcate, varying in breadth, entire or crenulate; disk of the 
base; the 2 lateral ones ending somewhat abruptly and sometimes : 
ormin gan acute tooth below the middle of the lobe, the central one - 
not so prominent or obscure at the base, but dinida further along 
the lamina. ien lobes of the edum as long as the anther, lanceo- | 
late with undulate ther 
a domat, iy in Sc rad. Neu. Journ. i. En R. Br. Pr od. 9er 
Muell. in pere xxvi. ur 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 166, and Fl. Mixt. n. 627, 
and many TO. or river, Wilcox ; Nangas, M Arthur ; Mudgee, Woolls; on 
the Murrumbid 
Victoria. Port Ph billip, Gunn, F. Mueller; Wendu Vale, Robertson; Yarra, 
- Mount Alexander, Mount Abrupt, F. Mueller ; East Gipps' Land, Walter. 
