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A shorter more robust plant than E. mucronata. Stems I 4 foot lugh, slightly compressed. Leaves 2 4-3*
^ O'- rigid, rarely simple, usually with many
ergm„ many-flowered distichous branches. Brads crowded, imbricated. Floivers white, speckled. Sqaais broadly
oblong. Petah ovate. Labellum broad, obscurely three-lobed, retuse.
Gen. I I . D E N D R O B IUM , L .
P e rm M i i foHola membranacea, p atentia. Sepala la teraba majora, obliqna, cum pede columnæ connata
L a le llnm pede columnæ articiüatum v. connatum, sessile. Columna semiteres, basi longe producta.
Anthera 2-loculans. P o lhm a 4, per paria collateraba.— Herbæ epiphytieæ, caulescentes.
A very large Tropical Asiatic genns, of which several species are found in Australia and Polynesia, and one in
New Zealand. B. Cmninghamii is a tufted epiphyte, with masses of cylindrical white roots on trunks of trees ete
and numerous, pendulous, slender, wiry, polished, branching stems, 1 -2 feet loug. Leaves numerous, distijhous.’
1 U inch lo n g ,^ broad, hnear, acuminate, striated, pale green, three-nerved. Flowers J inch broad, in axiUary
slender, branched, two- or more-flowered racemes, which are shorter than the leaves. Pedicels slender, bracteolate’
Leafets of the perranth nearly equal in length. Sepals acute, upper narrower, lower broad, united at the base to-
gether and with the base of the hp. into a blnnt prominent spur. Petals oblong, blunt. Zip continuous with the
base of the column ; claw long, connate with the lower sepals ; lamina three-lobed ; outer lobes smaU, middle broad
retuse or trúncate bro.Mer than long, undulated ; disc with five lam e llie -T h is speeies is alUed to the Polynesia!
B. i,forum, Sw.. of Otaheite. (Name from M p o r . a tree, aud ft„r, life; in allusion to the epiphytical habit.)
1. Dendrobiam Cunninghamii, L in d i.; caubbus pendubs fasciculatis ramosis gracüibus teretibus
ohosis, folus distichis hnearibus acuminatis stria tis 3-nerviis, peduncubs gracüibus 2 -4-floris folio breviori
bus, sepabs ovatis acutis, petabs oblongis subacutis, labeUo 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus parvis obtusis in te r
medio amplo nndulato retuso, disco 5-lamellato. LinAl. in Bo t. Peg. sub 1756. A. Cunn. P rodr ’ d bi
florum, A . Rich. F h r . non Swartz. Epidendrum biflorum, Forst. Prodr. E . ramosum. Ba n k s et S o l M S S
e t IC.
H ab. Th ro u g h o u t th e Islands, as far soutli as Stewart’s Island, B a n k s and Solander, etc.
Gen. I I I . B O L B O PH T L LUM , Thouars.
Sepala su bæq u ab a; la teraba obbqua, pede columnæ co n n a ta ; p e ía la plerumque minora. Labellum
pede columnæ articulatum, unguionlatum, sæpius in teg ram e t posticum. Columna nana, antice 2-cornis
in æ q u a b a .-H e rb æ ep ip h y tic« ; rhizomate repente, pseudo-
This genus abounds throughout the Tropics, but few species have been found south of those limits The New
Zealand B.pggmoeum is one of tha smallest, and forms flat mossy masses of interwoven creeping rhizomata and long
fibrous roots on the limbs of trees. Pseu.do-bulbs rounded, the size of a pepper-corn. Leaf solitary sessile
Imear-oblong. conaeeons, 4 inch long, grooved down the middle. Plowers very minute, solitary, ou a ’bracteate
pedicel nsmg from the base of the psendo-bnlb. Ovary short, tu rp d , gibbous, hairy. Upper sepal hooded, subacute
; feferai very broadly ovate, acute, united with the claw of the labellum into a blunt prominent spur Petals
bnear-oblong, blunt, shorter than the sepals. Lip with an artionlate, ovate, blnnt lamina; disc with thickened lines
dow^n the centre. Column very short, with two prominent teeth in front. (Name from /3oX/3os, a bulb, and fiv/Kou,
1. BolbophyUum pygmarum, L indl. ; rhizomate intertexto repente, pseudobnlbis depressis, folio lineari
oblongo subacuto, pedúnculo 1-floro bracteato fobo æquüoiigo, ovario tu rg id o perianthioque minimo pilosis.
sepalis la te ovatis acutis^ petalis minoribus obtusis^ labelli lamina ovata obtusa, disco sublamellato. L in d l.
Gen. et Sp. Orchid. A . Cunn. Prodr. Epidcndrum, B a n k s et Sol. M S S . et Ic.
H ab. T h ro u g h o u t th e Islands, as far so u th as Du sk y Bay, B a n k s a n d Solander, etc. N a t. name,
"B iri-P iri,” Col.
Gen. lY . SARCO CH ILU S, B r .
Pe rianthium c a rnosum; sepala subæqualia, obtusa, la teraha basi cum labelli basi c o n n a ta ;/)e¿¿í¿Éí
minora, o b tu s a ; labellum columna continuum, ecalcaratum, calceiforme, lobo intermedio carnoso solido.
Columna brevis, erecta, semiteres. A nthera 2-locuIaris. PoUinia 4, ceracea, p e r paria arete cohærentia, in
caudicula latiuscula, glandulæ stigmatis affixa, sessiha.— Epipbyticæ ; caule brevi ; foliis distichis.
A small genus of New Holland and Malayan epiphytical plants, of which one species inhabits New Zealand.—
S. parvijlorus is a short-stemmed herb, with veiy long fibrous aerial roots, running along the trunks of trees.
Leaves three to five, distichous, shortly sheathing at the base, coriaceous, linear-oblong, blunt, inches long.
Flowers very small, fleshy, rather crowded in axiUary pedunculate racemes, which are shorter than the leaves, white
speckled with purple. Bracteæ membranous, shorter than the germen. Sepals broadly oblong, blunt, lower broadest,
united below to the base of the lip. Petah smaller, oblong, blunt. Lip continuous with the base of the column,
very thick and fleshy, orbicular, very concave, margins recurved, blunt, with a thick, lobed caUus at the lower
end ; disc concave, with thickened ridges. Column short. Anther two-ceUed. Pollens four, waxy, globular, closely
united in pairs, seated on a flat broad candide, which is fixed by a broad gland to the stigma. (Name from crop^,
jlesh, and a lip.)
1. Sarcochilus adversus, Hook. fil. ; caule brevissimo, foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis, racemis multifloris,
floribus minimis, sepalis petalisque la te oblongis obtusis, labello concavo, disco lineis incrassatis aucto apice
calloso. E p id en d rum aclversum. B a n k s et Sol. M S S . et Ic.
H ab. N o rth e rn Islau d . Opuragi, Ba n k s and Solander. Bay of Isian d s and Wa irarapa , Edgerley,
Gen. Y. PR A SO PH Y L LUM , B r .
P e rianthium ringens ; sepata distincta v. basi cohærentia ; p e ta la inæquilatcralia ; labellum posticum
unguiculatum, indivisum, ecalcaratum. Columna trífida, laciniis lateraUbus (stamiuodiis) membranaceis
integris bifidisve. Anthera dorsalis ; loculis 2 approximatis. P o llin ia 2, apice stigmatis affixa, pulverea.
— Herbæ terrestres monophyllæv. a p h y lloe ; f l o r i b u s c a u l e vaginato j foliis fls tu lo s is ; radice tuberosa.
Terrestrial Australian, Tasmanian, and New Zealand plants, with fleshy round tuberous roots and simple stems :
leafless, or with one fistiilar leaf. Flowers spiked, green, small, spreading. Sepah distinct, or the two lower united
below. Petals smaller, with the nerves nearer one margin. Lip superior, clawed ; lamina thick and fleshy, without
lobes, appendices, or spur. Column tiifid ; lateral lobes erect, large, membranous, entire or divided. Anther
placed behind the column, two-celled. Pollens two, granular, two-lobed. (Name from irpaa-os, green, and <f>vXXov,
a leaf.)
1. Prasopliyllum Colensoi, H o o k .f ll.; caule supra medium foliato, folio racemum superante, ovariis
obovatis tumidis, bractea parva obtusa pedicellum æquante, sepalis obtusis posticis basi counatis, labello
breviter unguiculato trulliformi apice incrassato subacuto, anthera obtusa, columnæ lobis lateralibus brevissimis
inæqualiter 2-lobis.
H ab. N o rth e rn and Middle Islands, common. E a st Coast and interior, Colenso. Canterbury, L y a ll.
Root a round tuber, with thick fibres at the croivn. Stem erect, a span to a foot long, sleuder or robust, with
a membranous sheath at the base, and one long leaf, sheathing half-way up. Raceme many-flowered. Flowers small,
sweet-scented ; bract as short as the pedicel, blunt ; ovary obovate, gibbous. Perianth -i—a inch long. Lower
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