272 NEW OR RARE ORCHIDEX. 
(Tas. CXXXIV.—CXXXVL) 
NEW OR RARE ORCHIDE. 
In pursuance of the plan proposed in a late number of this 
Journal, I have the pleasure to offer figures and descriptions 
of 3 Australian Orchidee, which (not having, so far as I am 
aware, been yet cultivated in our gardens) I am enabled to 
do by the kindness of Mr. Richard Cunningham, who 
knowing the interest that the botanists of this country feel in 
that beautiful family, has, almost immediately on his arrival 
at Port-Jackson, directed his attention to them. Many of 
the species will probably ere long, through his exertions, be 
cultivated in our green-houses. 
ACIANTHUS. Br. 
Perianthium subringens, foliolis anterioribus aristatis, later- 
alibus labello oppositis, inferioribus minoribus, situ variis. 
Labellum dissimile, foliolis brevius, indivisum, porrectum. 
basi bicallosum, disco inappendiculato. Columna semiteres, 
apice inauriculato. Anthera terminalis, persistens, loculis 
approximatis. Masse pollinis in singulo loculo quatern®s 
v. binge bipartitse.— Herbze terrestres, glabelle. Bulbi indi- 
visi, solitarii, nudi, caudicem descendentem? radiciformem 
terminantes, novello pedicellato. Caulis unifolius et ipsa bast 
vagina brevi inclusus, supra ebracteatus. Folium profunde 
cordatum, acutum, trinerve, reticulato-venosum, subtus 
Flores racemosi v. solitarii, rufi. Br. 
A. fornicatus; floribus racemosis, aristis perianthio qua- 
druplo brevioribus foliolis interioribus erectiusculis, labello 
longitudinaliter papuloso, columna inclusa. (Tas. CXXXIV.) 
Br. Prodr. v. i. p. 321. Lindl, Gen, et Sp. Orchid. p. 25: 
