Dendrobium.] CXXVII. ORCHIDEiE. 1531 



■of fallen leaves. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, 2 to 4in. long. Racemes from tlie 

 uppermost nodes 2 to Sin. long, the flowers crimson tipped ■with green, crowded 

 almost from the base on pedicels of 3 to 6 lines. Bracts very small. Sepals 

 -ovate-lanceolate, not 3 lines long without the spur, which is 4 or 5 lines long, 

 straight, somewhat dilated towards the end and very obtuse. Petals rather 

 smaller than the sepals. Labellum with a long broad claw, expanded at the 

 apex into a concave complicate almost bood-shaped lamina, shorter than the 

 sepals, broader than long, entire or broadly and shortly 2-lobed. Pol]«n-raasses 

 -of the genus, closely cohering in pairs. Capsule waxy-white, lin. long promin- 

 -ently corrugated. — Calandria Smillia, Fitzg. Austr. Orch. i., Pfc. 7. 

 Hab.: Found in most of the tropical scrubs. 



22. S, ophioglossum (snake's tongue), H. G. Rekhh. Jonin. Linn. Svc. 

 XV. 118. Stems as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves thin coriaceous, oblong- 

 lanceolate, towards the apex acute and unequally bidentate. Racemes many- 

 flowered, two-thirds the length of the leaves. Bracts 3-angular, minute. Dorsal 

 sepal acute oblong, lateral ones within the cylindric spur towards the apex 

 ■constricted and curved. Labellum linear, apex 3-angular, broad, points obtuse. 

 •Column 8-dentate, lateral teeth rhomboid, the third 3-angular. 



Hab.; Cape Yorli, — . MoseUy o£ the Challenger Expedition. 



23. S. monophyllum (single-leaved), 7*'. v. 21. Fragm. i. 189 ; Bmtli. 

 FL. AuHtr. vi. 282. Stems from a creeping rhizome numerous, erect, thick, 

 narrow-conical, 1 to 4in. long, with very prominent ribs and furrows, at, least 

 when dry. Leaf terminal, oblong or lanceolate, flat, 2 to 4in. long. Raceme 

 fl,lso solitary and terminal, about as long as the leaf, with 2 or 8 or more yellow 

 flowers on pedicels of 3 or 4 lines. Bracts minute. Sepals broadly lanceolate, 

 :acute, about 3 lines long, besides the broad obtuse spur about 2 lines long and 

 -slightly curved upwards. Petals as long as the sepals but narrower especially 

 at the base. Labellum deep yellow, nearly as long as the sepals, the lateral 

 lobes small, the middle one broadly triangular or almost rhomboidal and obtuse ; 

 the disk without raised lines below the lobes, but 1 or 3 raised calli between the 

 lateral lobes, sometimes produced into short undulating raised lines or plates on 

 the middle lobe. — B. tortile, A. Cunn. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1889, Misc. 83, name 

 only, not D. tortile, Lindl. from Moulmein.; Fitzg. Austr. Orch. i. Pt. 6. 



Hab.: Brisbane Eiver, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, W. Hill; Glasshouse Mountains, 

 Beyerleij. Common on trees and rocks north and south. 



24. Ji. Schneiderae (after Mrs. H. Schneider), Bail. Occadonal Pap. on 

 QL FL. No. 1, p. 7. Stems or pseudo-bulbs rather dense, arising from a slender 

 •creeping rhizome, short-conical, about 6 lines long and 4 lines in diameter, of a 

 brownish colour and prominently ribbed. Leaves terminal, and, so far as 

 observed, always 2, often twisted, linear-oblong and unevenly emarginate, 

 length less than lin., width about 3 lines. Racemes filiform, terminal, 

 pendulous, 3|in. long, Isearing about 10 small greenish-yellow flowers ; bracts 

 minute, lanceolate. Pedicel with calyx-tube under 2 lines long, the latter bluntly 

 Tibbed. Segments of flower broadly ovate, incurved, the outer about 2 lines, the 

 inner ones rather smaller ; the outer edged by a red line which is net always 

 observable on the inner segments ; the spur much curved upwards and rather 

 large for the size of the flower. Labellum about 2 lines long, the lateral lobes 

 ■ending in a dark-coloured point beyond the middle lobe which is almost wanting, 

 or is very short and truncate. The disk thick, forming, with the abbreviated 

 middle-lobe, a cushion-like patch. Column short, the upper part around the 

 stigma marked by a red somewhat horseshoe-like line. Anther-lid white ; 

 pollen-masses pale-yellow. 



Hab.: Darlington Range, H. Schneider. 



Allied to D. monophyllum, differing, however, sufficiently to rank as a distinct species. 



