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Dendrobium speciosum prope urbem Towomba varictatcm quoaJ 

 florum colorem cremoream producit, cuulibus quoque paucipolli- 

 oaribus, foliis minoribus, racemis brevioribus iuterdum ad rioref 

 pancos depauperatis. Aliuti varietatis, nempe D. Hillii, defiui- 

 tioucm in bujus operis volumiue tertio, png, 39, dedi. 



Plerostylis semlruhra, 

 P. nana, J. Hook. FI. Tasm. tab. cxiv. (Sect. Antennasa.) 



Unlflora, foliis radicalibus louge petiolatis lato- v. rotundo-ovatis, 

 caulinis 1-2 angustis bracteiformibus, labiis calj/cis sursum intense 

 rubrisy labii iuferi erecti laciniis e latiore basi lincari-setaceis 

 labium superum sensim acumiuatura amplexantibus, Inhelli lamina 

 indivisa glabra oblongo-lanceolari apicem versus licte rubraj ap- 

 pendice labelli lobulis paucis perangustls terminata. 



In truncis arbori-filicum prope Apollo-Bay, C- Walter ; in 

 Tasmania ad bases tractus Western Mountains, W. Arclier. 



Planta 3-poIlicaris v. altior. Folia l-l^"]onga. Siuus labii 

 inferi acutus, edentatus. Apex appendicis in labello haud rite 

 penicillatus. Fructus non visus. 



Species floribus pulchre semirubris inter congeneres siugularis, 

 ut Chiloglottis Guuuii (qua3 uuperrime ia moute Guilielmi a cl. 

 SuUivan collecta) semper caudices Dicksonia? antarcticai vel 

 Alsophila; australis inhabitans, a P. concinna pra?ter calycis 

 colorem jam labello apice integro diguoscenda ; a P. naua labio 

 supero acutiore. sinu labii inferi nec amplo et truncato ueque 

 dentigero separanda. Jara mensibus Julio efc Augusto igitur primo 

 vere floret. 



CYrERACE^. 



Carex hidica, * 



Linn. Mantiss. 5T4 ; Nees in Wighfs Contribut. 123 ; ?vIunro in Sccmann's 

 Eot. of the Herald, 423 ; Boott Illustr. of Carex t. 250-254 ; C. Bengha- 

 lensis, Roxb. Flor. Indic. iii. 572 ; Benth. Elor. Hongkong, 401 ; Boott 

 g Illustr. tab. 240-243 ; C. Talida, Nees in Wighfs Contrib. 123, 



Elatior, foliis late linearibus marj^ine scabris, spicis paniculatis 

 patentibus breviusculis v. perbrevibus sessilibus aplce masculis, 

 bracteis florum femineorum pallide fulvescentibus in aristulam 

 lamina^ (Bquilongam productis^ stigmatibus tribus, fructibus obtuse 

 trigonis squarrosis e viridi fuscescentibus sensim longeque in 

 apicem la^vem breviter bidentatum angustatis» 



In Australia orientali calidiore ; Eaves. 



Carex Pseudo-Cyperus (L. Sp. Pl. 1387; R. Br. Pr. 243; 



Boott Ilhistrations of the genus Carex, iv. 140-141, t. 451 et 



j 452 ; C. excelsa, Poeppig in Kuntb. Eiinm. ii. 502 ; C. retrorsa, 



Nees in Linna?a, x. 204 ; C. cognata, Kunth, Enum. ii. 502 ; C. 

 Ha^nkeana, Presl. Reliquiae Haink. iii. 203 ; C. Lechleri, Steud. 



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