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only one or rarely two stamens, these and the style united into an 
one-sided column, pollen-masses in one or more pairs, the one- 
celled ovary and fruit enclosed in and connate with the tube of the 
calyx, the fruit 
bursting into 
three valves 
and containing 
innumerable 
seeds, mostly 
very minute 
without albu- 
men and fixed 
to the axis of 
the valves. 
The delicate 
Sarcochilus 
parviflorus may 
be found on the 
branches of the 
Musktree in 
the Cape-Otway 
Ranges, _— the 
Dandenong - 
forests, on the 
Genoa and pro- 
bably elsewhere 
in deep gullies, 
where Ferntrees 
luxuriate. The 
genus received 
its name from 
the thick (some- 
what _ fleshy) 
consistence of 
the labellum. 
While in Den- 
drobium the two 
Fie, LILI, 
Fig. LII.—(Dendrobium striolatum).—1, five of the sepals 
and the labellum ; 2, side-view of labellum-portion of calyx; 
3, genitalia~column; 4, anther-cells; 5, pollen-masses, all 
enlarged, 
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