S2>athogIottis.] CXXVII. ORCHIDEiE. 154* 



the middle lobe scarcely longer, obovate, obtuse or emarginate, contracted much 

 below the middle, with 3 large prominent calli immediately above the lateral 

 lobes, hairy around and immediately above the calli. Column incurved, not 

 much shorter than the sepals, slightly dilated upwards. — Dletia Panlince, F. v. M. 

 I.e.; Fitzg. Austr. Orch. i. pt. G. 

 Hab.: Eockinghara Bay, Dallachy. 



2. S. Soutteriana (after William Soutter), Bail. Proc. Roy. Soc. Ql. xi.. 

 Leaves crowning the pseudo-bulbs 6 or 7, the outer one without lamina, the 

 others increasing in length until the centre one attains a length (including the 

 rather long petio'le) of 1^ or '2ft. width, at broadest part about fin., but usually 

 less, tapering to fine points, and to the petioles, and prominently marked by 

 numerous rib-like nerves. Scape slender; raceme about Sin. long, bearing 8 or 

 9 light purple flowers. Bracts lanceolate 7 or 8 lines long, pedicels about lin. 

 long. Sepals and petals about -5 lines long. Labellum f the length of the other 

 segments of the perianth, articulate to the base o£the column close to the lateral 

 lobes, which are oblong or slightly spathulate, and somewhat incurved, 

 and on the disk between them at the upper end 2 large, thick, erect, rather- 

 spreading glabrous calli ; middle lobe with a rather long claw, expanding into a 

 somewhat flabelliform blade; the claw with densely woolly margins. Column- 

 much incurved, dilated upwards, presenting, with the anther, an almost.': 

 hooded appearance. 



Hab.: Stony Creek, Cairns-Herberton Eaihvay line, L. J. Nugent ; Kameruhga, K. CoicJi-y: 



11. PHAIUS, Lour. 



(Alluding to the beauty of the flo-svers.) 



Sepals and petals nearly equal, free, spreading. Labellum, broad, producecJ 

 into a spur at the base, erect and convolute round the column, entire or 8-lobed 

 and more or less spreading at the top. Column semi-cylindrical, elongated. 

 Anther lid-like. Pollen-masses 8, nearly equal or 4 shorter, waxy, attached to- 

 the branches of a dichotomous caudicle, but no gland. — Terrestrial herbs, the- 

 leafy stems short and thickened into pseudo-bulbs or almost stemless. Leaves- 

 large. Scapes radical, tall, erect, leafless except sheathing scales imbricate at the- 

 base, distant on the stem and passing into the bracts. Flowers large and 

 shcwy. ' 



The genus is spread over tropical and subtropical Asia. 



1., P. grandifolius (leaves large). Lour.; LiniU. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 126 ;: 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. SOL Stems tufted, usually thickened into short psendo- 

 bulbs at the base, bearing 2 or S oblong or ovate-lanceolate leaves often abovfr 

 1ft. long, narrowed into a long petiole. Scapes radical, 2 to 4ft. high, bearing a 

 loose raceme of large showy flowers. Sepals and petals broadly lanceolate. If to- 

 near 2in. long, white outside, cinnamon-brown inside. Labellum nearly as long 

 as the- sepals, very broadly obovate, broadly and very obtusely S-lobed, or notched 

 or shortly acute in the centre, the margins undulate-crisped, white and shaded) 

 or streaked with crimson, loosely encircling ^he column at its base, the spur , 

 short narrow and usually curved. Column nearly fin. long. — Bletia Tankcrvillm, 

 R. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 192t; Phaius ait^trnUs, F.v. M. Fragm. i. 42; P. 

 leucophmus, F. v. M. Fragm. iv. i6S ; P. Carroni,¥'. \. M. PI. Burdek. Exped. 19 ;. 

 Fitzg. Austr. Orch. ii. Pt. 5. 



Hab.: Moreton Bay and Island, A. Cunningham, WGilUvray ; Rockingham Bay, A. 

 Cunningham, Dallachy ; Lady Elliott's Island, Bwdekiu Expedition ; in coastal .scrubs along 

 the whole coast. 



