Liparis.] CXXVII. ORCHIDE^. 1521 



■very few of them reduced to sheathing scales. Racemes long and rigid. 

 Pedicels short, erect or spreading, the flowers much smaller than in L. rcllco-a. 

 Bracts short. Lateral sepals about 2 lines long, broadly oblong-falcate, obtuse; 

 ■dorsal sepal and petals linear, about 3 lines long, the petals still narrower than 

 the sepal.- Labellum as long as the lateral segments, recurved from the middle, 

 broadly oblong, shortly embracing and adnate to the column at the base, obtuse 

 or retuse, the disk with 2 small prominent callosities. Anther-cells at some, 

 distance from each other in the anther-case. — Stwmia Uabenarina, F. v. M. I.e. 

 Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 



Very closely allied to the L. ferruginea, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1843, .55, from Eorneo and 

 Malacca, and perhaps a variety; but that species has a dark brown labellum showing its colour 

 in the dried state, and from a note in Herb. Liadley, has no calli on the disk, whilst the 

 L, habenarina has the labellum of the same pale yellow as the rest of the flower. — Benth. 



7. I.. Simmondsii (after J. H. Simmonds), Bail. Hot. Bull. 3. Stems 

 arising from an almost globose rhizome of 1 to l^in. in diameter, erect 

 terete, about 8 or 4in. high, diameter about Jin., green, not wholly covered by the 

 sheathing bracts, of which latter there are about 4, prominently striated, 

 the keel more so than the rest and elongated into a subulate point. Leaves 

 usually 2, ovate-acuminate, unequal sided, 5' to 7-nerved, petiolate, about Sin. 

 long. Peduncle and raceme terminal erect, about lOin. Flowers not seen. 

 Capsules elongated, erect, pyriform, about lin. long on pedicels of about 4 lines. 



Hab.: On sandy land bordering swamps, Eudlo Creek, Field Naturalists, March, 1891. 



This plant is probably nearly allied to Liparis atropwrpurea, Lindl. The flowers, however, 

 are wanted to prove its affinity. 



4. DENDROBIUM, Swartz. 

 (From dendron, a tree, and bios, life.) 



Sepals nearly equal in length, the lateral ones very obliquely dilated at the 

 base and connate with a projection from the base of the column into a pouch or 

 spur. Petals usually nearly the length of the upper sepal or rather longer. 

 Labellum articulate at the end of or (in species not Australian) shortly connate 

 with the basal projection of the column, concave at the base, with the margins 

 gradually expanded into 2 lateral lobes usually embracing the top of the column, 

 and a central terminal lobe usually spreading or recurved, or the lateral and 

 terminal lobes confluent in an entire concave or spreading lamina, the disk 

 usually bearing longitudinal raised plaits. Column not very long, winged or 

 toothed at the top. Anther terminal, lid-like. Pollen-masses 4, in collateral 

 pairs, usually equal and free or slightly coherent. — Ehizome tufted or creeping on 

 trees or rocks ; stems elongated and branching or simple and thick, sometimes 

 reduced to short pseudo-bulbs, and usually bearing both leaves and racemes or 

 1-flowered peduncles. Flowers often rather large and showy, rarely very small. 

 A large genus ranging over the warmer regions of both the New and the Did World. 



Sect. I. Oendrocoryne. — Stems simple' elongated or short and sometimes thickened into 

 oblong psejido-bulls, bearing 2 or more flat or channelled leaves at or near the end, the lower part 

 with scarious thin sheathing scales which usually soon wear away, leaving annular scars. 

 Racemes 1 to 3, apparently terminal or nearly so (owing to the arrest of the terminal shoot) or 

 only in the upper axils. 



Petals obovate, broader than the sepals. Peduncles often long. Flowers 



pink, lilac or white, usually very showy. Basal pouch of the flower 



forming a double spur. 



Stems usually slender. Leaves lanceolate. Petals J to IJin. broad. 

 Labellum middle-lobe very broad and obtuse 1. D. higihhum. 



Stems somewhat stout. Leaves broadly lanceolate. Petals broadl.v- 

 cuneateor obovate. Labellum middle-lobe blunt-triangular, longer 

 than broad, slightly undulate ....". '2. B. siiperbiens. 



Stems stout. Leaves broad emarginate, thick coriaceous .... 3. D. Fit:igeraldii. 



