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leaves, seems also referable to P. curta, not without some approach t« 

 P. cucullata. 



P. curta occurs in the Australian Alps (Stirling), Brodribb-River 

 (Merrell), Loddon (Dickinson). 



Again P. curta comes in floral characters, particularly the labellum, 

 near P. obtusa. The development of stem-leaves on expense of the 

 radical leaves is no specific note, to separate P. pyramidalis from P. nana. 



In the Botanical Magazine, plate 3,085, P. nutans is figured as 

 posse^sing a glabrous labellum, and Bentham describes that organ as 

 naerely ciliolate, as indeed it appears when viewed from beneath ; the 

 surface however is copiously beset with minute hairlets, by which 

 peculiarity this species is still more easily distinguished from several 

 allied congeners. The lamented Mr. Fitzgerald gave also in this instance 

 a faithful illustration, as we all know, for his süperb work. His 

 P. hispidula can however not be specifically separated. P. nutans has 

 been sent from Mt. Dromedary by the late Mr. Reader, from the Peel- 

 River by Mr. Musson, Glenelg-River (Eckert), Ovens-River (Miss Henley), 

 and from Hume-River (Jephcott), Maeleay-River (Miss Carter), The ripe 

 fruit and matured seeds of all our native orchids should be studied 

 specially for possibly nevv diagnostic notes. P. curta is delineated in 

 Guillemin's „Icon. Plant Austral.", on plate II. Extends to Peel-River 

 (Ch. Musson). 



P. cucullata as well as some other congeners are very variable as 

 regards the length of the thin attenuation of the lower calyx-lobes ; grows 

 also at Mt. William (Sullivan), and Hume-River (C. French, jun.), Snowy- 

 River (Baeuerleu). Occasionally flowers smaller. Mr. Ch. French, sen., 

 fouud this near Port-Phillip, in somewhat peaty Melaleuca-thickets, drawn 

 up to fully five feet. The distinctions between P. cucullata and P. furcata 

 -are probably not specific. 



P. concinna has sometimes the radical leaves dispersed upwards, 

 two or three being placed on the stem. It flowers here in June. At 

 the Derwent sometimes the stems attain a length of nearly one foot 

 (Rodway). 



P. pedaloglossa flowers near Brighton-Bluff already early in April, but 

 really as a vernal plant, when along with it Eriochilus autumnalis and 

 E. fimbriatus are simultaneously in bloom (Ch. French, jun.) 



P. pedunculata occurs also on the base of Mt. Kosciusko (Ch. French, 

 jun.), at Loutit-Bay (Mrs. Beale) and on the Clyde (Baeuerlen). Leaves 

 always remarkably dark-green above. P. semiruira is most closely allied 

 to this, and occurs also on sandy coast soil at Kardinia-Creek ; flowers in 

 July and August. 



P. nana has lately been found on the Lachlan-River (Josephson), 

 at the Grampians (D'Alton), Upper Yarra (Walter), Murray-Desert 

 (Tepper). The form distinguislied as P. pyramidalis extends to 

 Geographe-Bay (Miss Bussell). This species flowers here from June to 

 August. 



P. grandiflora or a very closely allied plant has been gathered at 

 Western-Port, where it flowers in June, but at Kardinia-Creek and at 

 Morbunya in August. Delineated by Bauer and Guillemin. P. Baptistü 

 approaches in many respects P. grandiflora. It has become illustrated in 

 Sir J. Hooker's Bot. Mag. on plate 6,351. P. reflexa occurs also on the 

 Lower-Yarra (Miss Coghill) and at the Genoa (Baeuerlen); was found 

 flowerirjg as early as June on the Loddon (M'Kibbin). 



P. prcecox differs irrespective of some other marks from P. reflexa in 

 the less poiuted labellum. Flowers at Port-Phillip already in May 

 and June, but seemingly also under exceptional circumstauces in 

 October (Ch. Fiench, jun.) Mr. C. French, sen. gave many extensive 

 notes on Victorian orchids in Wing's „Southern Science Record" long ago. 



P. obtusa flowered once on the Upper Yarra as early as April, at 

 Port-Phillip it blooms usually in June and July, at the Genoa in May 

 (Reader); extends to East-Gippsland (Howitt), Whittlesea- Ranges (Dixon). 

 Mr. French found it once two-flowering. 



