DIPO'DIUM PUNCTA’TUM. 
~ DOTTED DIPODIUM. 
MONOCOTYLEDONE&. 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant a, 
NATURAL ORDER,. ORCHIDACES. 
GYNANDROSA, Artificial divisions GYNANDRIA, 
oF to which MONANDRIA, 
LINDLEY. this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS, 
No. 66. 
GENUS. Diropium. Roserr Brown. PERIANTHIUM patens, petalis se. 
qualibus. Lape tum subconforme, utrinque infra medium auricu- 
palisque equal 
latum, disco barbatum, basi saccatum et cum columna connatum. CoLumNA 
erecta, marginata, semiteres. ANTHERA menibrenkoea, bilocularis? Porxrnra 
2, oblique biloba, caudiculis duabus ee ee communi affixis. Lrvp.er: 
Genera and Species of Orchideous Plants, 1 
SPECIES. Diroprum punctatum. Ropert Brown. 
bus distantibus, labello recto 5 ics’ pubescente. "Did, p- 1 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, DIPoODIUM. Reicte spreading, 
petals and sepals equal. Lip nearly similar, having an auricle at- 
tached to each side below the middle, the disk bearded, saccate at 
the base, and united to the column. CoLumn erect, margined, round- 
ish. ANTHER membranous, perhaps two-celled? POLLEN Masses 
2, obliquely two-lobed, attached to a common gland, by two little 
stalks (caudicule.) 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, Drropips PUNCTATUM. A ter- 
restrial plant with a fibrous root, some of the fibres thick, succulent 
and horizontal, the rest slender and perpendicular. Stem about 14 
to 2 feet high, of a brownish purple, round, smooth, devoid of leaves, 
but having vaginating scales, which at the base of the stem are imbri- 
cated, higher up remote ; scales short, obtuse. INFLORESCENCE race- 
mose. FLowers purple. Raceme cylindrical, loose ; peduncles of 
a bright purple, at first erect, afterwards, horizontal or drooping. 
Perianta brownish purple, spotted with red or blood-coloured dots ; 
sepals and petals linear oblong, nearly equal. Laxzetium (lip) ob- 
long, three-lobed, pubescent at the base, in the central part of which 
is a furrow, saccate, connected with a short attachment to the base of 
the column; three-lobed ; lateral lobes narrow, falcate, recurved, they 
as well as the disk hairy, the central lobe oblong, flat, apiculate, con- 
— radicali- 
