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nity of Port Jackson, where it was discovered by Mr. Brown, 
and introduced to the Royal Gardens at Kew by Mr. Atian 
CunnincHam in 1828. I am indebted to W. T. Arron, Esq. 
for the drawing here represented, taken from a plant which 
flowered in that rich establishment in 1830. This is rather 
more luxuriant than the native specimens in our Herbarium, 
which we possess from Mr. Brown himself (gathered in 
1803,) Mr. Ricnarp Cunnineuam, and Dr. Sieser. By 
this last-named botanist, it is incorrectly called P. acume- 
nata. 
Descr. The root is a descending fibre, about the thick- 
ness of small twine, bearing at the extremity two small, 
pea-shaped tubers. Sometimes a second fibre is thrown 
out, four to five inches long, in a horizontal direction, and 
slightly thickened at the apex. Leaves radical, ovate. 
Scape four to six inches high, slender, erect in our culti- 
vated plant, bearing three to four sheathing bracteas. 
Flower erect, beautifully varied with purple-brown, green 
and white, galea acute. Lower sepal with two much atten- 
uated segments, longer than the galea. Labellum strap- 
shaped, emarginate, purple appendage ; with a glandular tuft 
of hairs at its extremity. Column about as long as the lp, 
green ; wings white, with two filiform appendages at the 
top on each side the anther. 
Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Back view of ditto. 3, Side view 
of the Column and Lip. 4. Front view of the upper part of the Column:— 
magnified. 
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