1558 CXXYII. OECHIDEiE. [Galeola. 



rootlets at the nodes opposite the bracts, terminating in long pendulous panicles. 

 Flowers of a brownish or golden yellow, in short racemes or branches of the 

 panicle, quite glabrous and smooth. Bracts at the base of the pedicels and 

 branches ovate-lanceolato, acute, 1 to 2 lines long and those of the flowerless. 

 stems scarcely 3 lines. Pedicels and ovary 8 to 4 lines. Sepals (j or more lines long, 

 oblong-lanceolate, the dorsal one incurved, the lateral ones slightly falcate ; petals 

 as long as the sepals but linear. Labellum white, witti transverse coloured bands, 

 scarcely so long as the sepals, sessile, very broad, erect, concave, almost convolute; 

 obscurely 3-lobed, the lateral lobes or obtuse angles short, erect and entire, the 

 middle lobe very short and broad, spreading, undulate-crenate ; disk of the erect 

 part with 2 raised longitudinal lines separated by a broad pubescent centre and 

 ending in a transverse callus, the lamina or middle lobe pubescent on the surface 

 at the base and bearing sometimes irregular undulate calli. Anther with a large- 

 broad convex or almost hood-like dorsal appendage, 2-celled in front ; pollen- 

 niasses 2, without caudicles, deeply 2-lobed, but the lobes closely approximate and 

 the consistence almost as waxy as in Dendrohiitm . — Fitzg. Austr. Orch. i., Pt. 3 ; 

 Dendrohium canny tho ides, A. Cunn. in Lindl. Bot. Eeg. under n. 1828 ; Ledperia 

 aphylla, F. v. Muell. Fragm. i. 239, ii. 167 ; Erythrorcliis aphylla, F. v. Muell- 

 Fragm. ii. 167. 



Hab.: Southern localities inland and coastal. 



2. G. foliata (scales leaf-like), F. r. M. Fragm. viii. 31 ; Bcnth. Fl. Austr. 

 vi. 307. Climbing habit the same as that of G. casaythoides, but much more- 

 robust and higher, the panicle or flowering portion of the plant very much larger, 

 and the bracts subtending the branches often 1 to 2in. long, but retaining the 

 ovate-lanceolate shape, the broad stem-clasping base, and with the colour and 

 consistence of bracts rather than that that of true leaves. Sepals and petals 

 lanceolate, 1 or more inches long, the petals much narrower than the sepals. 

 Labellum broadly obovate, more contracted at the base than in G. cassythoides, 

 the erect part broadly cuneate, with two raised lines along the centre but glabrous- 

 between them, the two lines converging into a single one on the lamina, this. 

 lamina or upper spreading portion of the labellum very broad, the margins 

 undulate-crisped, the surface oi the whole labellum on each side of the smooth 

 centre fringed with several lines of small linear calli rather than hairs, the lines 

 transverse on the claw, longitudinal or diverging on the lamina, strongly scented 

 like wild bee honey. Anthers with the broad dorsal appendage of G. cassythoides- 

 but flatter, and the pollen distinctly granular, in two masses deeply divided intO' 

 somewhat distant oblong lobes, giving the mass somewhat of a horseshoe shape. 

 Capsule 7 to Sin. long. SeeJ winged. — G. Ledyerii, Fitzg. Austr. ii., Pt. 2 ; 

 Ledgeria foliata, or Erythrorohis foliata , F. v. Muell. Fragm. ii. 167. 



Hab.: Not uncommon in the coastal scrubs both north and south ; about old rotten stumps of 

 trees. 



24. CORYMBIS, Thou. 



(Flowers in corymbose panicles.) 



(Corymborchis, Thou.) 



Sepals and petals nearly equal, linear and dilated above the middle, all 

 spreading or the dorsal one more erect. Labellum about as long, narrow, 

 channelled, dilated at the end into a short recurved lamina, the disk with two 

 longitudinal raised lines. Column elongated, terete, elavate at the end, with two 

 erect lateral lobes, the stigma and rostellum acuminate, as long as the anther. 

 Anther erect behind the stigma, acuminate, 2-celled ; pollen granular, 



