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MICROTIS PARVIFLORA. SMALL-FLOWERED 
Microris. 
Class and Order. 
GynanpriA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipem. § Arernuses. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium ringens, foliolis lateralibus exterioribus ses- 
silibus, labello suppositis ; interioribus subsimilibus, ad- 
scendentibus. Labellum dissimile, oblongum, obtusum 
basi callosé. Anthera columnam infundibuliformem posticé 
terminans, auriculo membranaceo utringue aucta (unde 
nomen.) Masse Pollinis utriusque loculi bine, pulvereex, 
basi affixe stigmatis apice soluto—Herbe glabre. Bulbi 
indivisi, nudi. Folium caulinum unicum, Jjistulosum, teres, 
vagind longd. Spica multiflora. Flores parvi, virescentes, 
v. albi, labello indiviso v. bilobo. R. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Microrts * parviflora ; perianthii foliolis inferioribus revo- 
lutis interioribusque linearibus, labello lineari-oblongo 
integerrimo : marginibus nudis; disco dimidii superioris 
ecalloso, spice floribus omnibus approximatis. Br. 
Microtis parviflora. Br. Prodr. v. 1. p. 321. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 713. 
Sent by Attan Cunnincuam, in 1824, with others of 
the very curious terrestrial Oncuinex of New South Wales 
to His Majesty’s Garden at Kew, where it flowered in 
October, 1828, when the drawing, which Mr. Baver has 
obligingly communicated to us, was made. In September 
of the present year the same plant flowered in the green- 
house of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, among a box of 
rare Orcuipe# sent by Mr. Ricuarp Cunninenam from the 
Same country, the preceding year. In the colony of Port 
Jackson, 
_* From pixpos, small, and #; 2rd, an ear, from the small auricle on each — 
side the column, 
