1548 CXXVII. OECHIDE^. [Cymbidiwn, 



4. C. suave (sweet scented), R. Br. Prod. 831 ; Rentli. Fl. Austr. vi. SOS- 

 Stems usually slender, more densely covered with the imbricate strongly striate 

 bases of the leaves than the two preceding species, and these bases often split up. 

 into fibres. Leaves narrow, often above 1ft. long, keeled and strongly striate. 

 Racemes rather more dense than in C. canaliculatum, the sheathing scales at the 

 base of the peduncle more rigid and leaf-like, the flowers rather smaller, green 

 blotched -with red. Sepals and petals scarcely 5 lines long, rather acute. 

 Labellum narrower than in C. canaliculatuni , especially towards the base, 

 undivided or obscurely sinuate 3-lobed, the disk without longitudinal plates but 

 thickened along the centre. Column with 2 narrow wings. Capsule ovoid- 

 globular, scarcely lin. long. — Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 164; F. v. MuelL 

 Fragm. i. 187 ; Keichb. f. Beitr. 46. 



Hab.: Moreton Bay, C.SItiiart; Bockhampton, O'S/inHcs;/. 



This is the species usually found on forest Eucalypts in various localities. 



16. GEODORUM, Jacks. 

 (Referring to the flowers being near the earth.) 



Sepals and petals nearly equal, free, erect. Labellum erect, sessile at the base- 

 of the column but free from it, broad, concave and slightly saccate at the base, 

 entirely or scarcely lobed. Column short, erect, seuiiterete. Anther terminal, 

 lid-like, very concave. Pollen-masses 2, 2-lobed, waxy, attached to a very short 

 caudicle on a transverse gland. — Terrestrial herbs with a short creeping rhizome. 

 Leafy stems short, sometimes pseudo-bulbous at the base. Leaves rather large, 

 plicate and strongly-ribbed, the lower ones reduced to membranous sheathing 

 scales. Scapes from the base of the leafy stem, leafless except the sheathing 

 scales, terminating in a rather dense usually recurved raceme. 

 The genus extends over East Indian and the Archixielago. 



1. G. pictum (painted), Lindl. Gen. and 8i>. On-h. 175 ; Bentli. Fl. Austr. vi. 

 299. Leafy stems a few inches high, terminating in 2 or 3 ovate-lanceolate 

 leaves of 4 to 8in., tapering at both ends. Scapes from the axil of a membranous 

 scale close to the base of the leafy stem, shorter or perhaps sometimes longer 

 than the leaves, bearing membranous sheathing scales, several rather large at the 

 base of the scape, distant higher up. Flowers pink, rather numerous in a. 

 terminal raceme, reflexed only after the flowers have begun to expand. 

 Pedicels short. Bracts linear, white. Sepals and petals oblong, 4 to 5 

 lines long. Labellum broadly ovate, darkly veined, obtuse and emarginate 

 or very shortly 2-lobed at the end, the margin somewhat undulate, 

 the disk saccate at the base with 2 double raised lines or plates more or less- 

 marked at the base often evanescent upwards or confluent into 2 single ones and 

 terminating into a toothed or entire transverse callus below the end of the 

 labellum. Column short, the margin winged. Pollen-masses ovoid-globular,, 

 waxy, 2-lobed. — F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 24 ; Eeichb. Beitr. 46 ; Cymbidium pictwn, 



E. Br. Prod. 331. 



Hab.: Moreton Bay, Bcma^/s ; Eoclchampton, O'Skanesy, Thozei; Cleveland Bay, Bowman; 

 Wide Bay, BidiiHll ; Boekinghara Bay, Dallachy ; Port Denison, Filzalan ■ Taylor's range,, 



F. M. B.' 



17. DIPODIUM, E. Br. 



(From Dis, two, ijous, a foot.) 



(Leopardanthus, Blume ; Wailesia, Lindl.) 



Sepals and petals nearly equal, free, spreading. Labellum sessile, erect, 



adnate to the column at its base and then gibbous or produced into a very short 



pouch, the lamina 3-lobed, the lateral lobes narrow, the middle lobe longer^ 



oblong-ovate or rhomboidal, with a hairy or pubescent patch near the end. 



