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petiolatum, ante anthesin emarcidum, mensibus 2-3 inflorescentia 
precoeius; flores numero 1-5 variantes; sepala extus nigro- v. 
fusco-rubra, intus albida, posterius striatum ; columna membranea ; 
pollinia 4 gracilia, pulverea, fragillima ; species mihi apparet 
Lyperanthis aptius congener quam sui generis ; forsan in Australia 
felice reperienda ; Eriochilus autumnalis, inter sinus St. Vincent's 
Gulf et Moreton's Bay per amplum terre tractum satis abunde 
oceurrens, alpes etiam adscendens ; E. scaber vel species finitima 
ad flumen Murchisonii obveniens ; E. multiflorus, cujus specimen 
servavi pedem altum a Kalgan, et alterum biflorum e collectione 
Oldfieldii a fluvio Murchison's River; Glossodia major, a sinu 
Spencer's Gulf ad montes Novz Anglie dispersa ; G. minor, mihi 
solummodo ex ericetis inter flumina Womboyne et Genoa et por- 
tum Twofold Bay cognita, qux amb: species forsan nomine G. 
orientalis combinandze ; G. Brunonis à fluvio Vasse's River usque 
in regiones occidentales sinus Great Australian Bight evidenter 
sat abunde divergens; Microtis viridis (M. parvifloram, M. 
mediam, M. raram, R. Br. Prodr. 321 ; M. arenariam, Lindl. Gen. 
et Spec. Orchid. 396 ; M. pulehellam, J. Hook. Flor. Tasm. i. 24, 
tab. exviii. A. ; M. frutetorum, Schlecht. Linnzea, xx. 568 am- 
plectens) a sinu Spencer's Gulf per Australiam felicem et Neo- 
Cambriam frequens, septemtrionem versus montes Flinders's Ranges 
et flumen Burnett's River attingens et nisi fallor occidentem 
versus ad flumen Murchison's River extendens; M. atrata, ex 
Australia occidentali et a fluvio Glenelg's River, a basi montium 
Grampians et a portu Phillipi nota, forsan veram M. pulchellam 
Brownii representans ; M. alba, saltem a Kalgan ad promontorium 
Cape Le Grand expandens. 
Thelymitra porphyrosticta. 
Preter vaginam breviter denseque pubescentem glabra, folio e 
basi latiore amplexante v. cucullata sensim lineari et acutato, 
scapo unibracteato 1—3-floro, pedicellis bracteolam zquantibus v. 
demum superantibus, sepalis petalis labelloque rubieundis auran- 
tiaco-tinetis purpureo-variegatis et maculatis, column«e lobis late- 
ralibus glaberrimis lanceolatis breviter unguiculatis integerrimis, 
lobo medio brevissimo lacero-cristato, anthera terminali aurea o 
longa lobos labelli laterales :quante erostri. — c 
Ad margines paludum prope flumen Salt River et in vallibus 
humidis prope Kalgan. Maxw. beg 
Herba sesquipedalis v. humilior. "Tuber antiquum ellipsoideum. 
Folium 2-3" longum.  Braetea infra medium scapi sita, circiter 
uncialis, basin versus tubulosa. Bracteole 1-1" longe, simpliciter 
acute, haud acuminatm. Sepala 8-10" longa, lanceolata, acuta, 
presertim marginem versus in colorem aurantiacum vergentia, 
. maeulis magis minusve tincta. Columna lata violacea v. purpurea, 
