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Microtis MEDIA. MuppLe-sizep Micrortis. 
Sie ie Sa ee a es 
Class and Order. 
GynanpriA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipem. § AreruusEa. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium ringens, foliolis lateralibus exterioribus ses- 
silibus, labello suppositis ; ixterioribus subsimilibus, adscen- 
dentibus. Labellum dissimile, oblongum, obtusum, basi 
callost. Anthera columnam infundibuliformem posticé 
terminans, auriculo membranaceo utrinque aucta, (unde 
nomen.) Masse Pollinis utriusque loculi bine, pulveree, 
basi aflixe stigmatis apice soluto.—Herbe glabre. Bulbi 
indivisi, nudi. Folium caulinum unicum, Jfistulosum, teres, 
vagind longd. Spica multiflora. Flores parvi, virescentes, 
v. albi, labello indiviso v. bilobo. R. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Microtis media; perianthii foliolus inferioribus revolutis 
oblongis acutis : interioribus linearibus obtusis, labello 
oblongo-cuneato apice retuso : dimidii superioris disco 
verrucoso-incrassato marginibus calloso -tuberculatis. 
Br. 
Microris media. Br. Prodr. v. 1. p. 321. Spreng. Syst. 
Veget. 0. 3. p. 713. 
‘“* When Capt. Kine returned from New South Wales in 
1823, he brought home with him turfs of the Cer#atotus of 
King George’s Sound, at which port he had touched in his 
assage ; and that curious vegetable having flowered at 
€w, an opportunity was afforded of publishing a coloured 
figure of it in the Botanical Magazine (t. 3119.) From 
the sod that contained the Australasian Pitcher-plant sprang 
up, unexpectedly, our present subject, which produced its 
Owers in 1825, and thus enabled Mr. Bauer, (to whom a 
