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SARCOCHILUS. 



S. Fitzgeraldi. 



Stems very short, usually -with 3 — 5 linear-oblong leathery leaves 

 3 — 5 inches long. Peduncles slender, drooping, longer than the leaves, 

 6 — 9 or more flowered. Flowers an inch in diameter, on white pedicels 

 (and ovary) sheathed at the base by a small subulate bract ; sepals and 

 petals similar and sub-e<|ual, spreading, oval, obtuse, white densely spotted 

 with rose-purple toAvards the base ; lip shorter than the other segments, 



Sarcocliilus Fitzgeraldi. 



saccate, three-lobed, the side lobes erect, roundish oblong, white spotted 



with rose-purple ; the front lobe small, sub-conical, gibbous below, bright 



yellow. Column very short. 



Sarcochilus Fitzgeraldi, F. Mul. Frag. VII. p. 115 (1870). Fitzgerald. Orch. 

 Austral. I. part 2. 



One of the rarest and most attractive ol' Australian orchids. It is 



dedicated by Baron Ferdinand von Milller, Director of the Botanic 



Garden at Melbourne, to the excellent monographer of Australian orchids, 



Mr. Robert Fitzgerald, of Sydney, who has given the following account 



of it : — '' It was discovered by myself in a deep gorge of the mountaius, 



