tracted at the base, the hairs limited to a line along the middle. Co- 
LUMN erect, roundish, truncate, glandulose at the margin; clinandri- 
um with little teeth. S71iema short, transverse. POLLEN MASSES two, 
furrowed behind, with two little stalks (caudicule) attached toa sublu- 
nate or crescent-shaped gland. : 
Porutar AND Geocrapuicat Notice. The orchidaceous plants 
which we have hitherto figured, have been of the kind termed epiphy- 
tes, but the present species is a terrestrial one. This character might 
have been predicted of it in some degree, from its native place being 
in a higher latitude than the former subjects of our plates. A reduction 
of temperature attends this removal from the equator, and the air is no 
longer capable of holding in suspension a sufficient quantity of aque- 
ous vapour, charged with the materials of nourishment for plants grow- 
ing on the branches of trees. All the orchidaceous plants of Europe 
are terrestrial, and deck our meadows and slopes, instead of hang- 
ing from the spreading arms of trees, like most of those of tropical 
countries. The closer vicinity of New Holland, and Van Dieman’s 
Land, to the Southern Pole, likewise causes the orchidaceous plants of 
that region to seek nourishment directly from the earth, and they are 
consequently terrestrial. This species is found in New South Wales, 
near Port Jackson, and likewise in Van Dieman’s Land. The leafless 
character seems common to the genus, existing in the only other known 
species, Dipodium squamatum, a native of New Caledonia. ~ 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. This accession to 
the charming orchidaceous plants under culture, was imported by the 
Messrs. Loddiges, in 1835. To their liberality we owe the opportunity 
of figuring it, having blossomed in March, 1837. It grows in a pot, 
standing on the shelf of the conservatory, not requiring a stove heat. 
DeERIvaTIOn OF THE NaMEs. 
Diropiem, from Arg dis, two, and ove rodog, a foot, referring to the two 
stalks of the pollen masses. Puncratum, from punctum, a point or dot, in al- 
lusion to the dots on the flowers. 
SyNONYMEs, 
Denprosium punctatum. Smith: Exotic Botany, I, 21,plate 12. Robert 
Brown: Prodromus Flore Nove Hollandie,p. 331. Lindley: Botanical Reg- 
ister, folio 1980, 
