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dicles as long as tlie gynostemium , connected with it only the base, 

 oliliquely n.tirow elliptical ; anthcr iiiiimtely poiiitod, red, tmiiinp black ; 

 poUiniH two, clavate, .sulphuryellow, tlieir corjmscles in two lous ; fruit 

 obliquoly clavate-ovate, nearly thrice longer thaii broad 



Bctween the Yarra aud the Dandenong Ranges; G. Frtsnch. 

 Attains a height of 1'/« feet. 



In stature and aspect this well-niarked species is niuili like tlie larger 

 State of l'.fuscuiii, with which it also agrees is size of flowers; the 

 approach to P. elatum is much less. The species in named after the 

 youtfnl cüllector, who lias filially inhered froni one of the priucipal founders 

 of the Field-Natnralists' Club bis ardour for formiug, by searches of bis 

 own, Zoologie and pbytologic collectious , and instituting observations 

 thereou. 



'l'he species uiight be mistaken for /'. hrevllahre; but an authentic 

 speciuien, received from Mr. F. Abbott, the Director of the Botanical 

 (iardens of Hobart, with which Mr. W. Archer 's drawing in the „Flora 

 Tasnuanie^i" well accords, proves that plant to diflfer in the nnpaired calyx- 

 lobe being narrowor, the labelluin less curved inward in its lower portion, 

 nearly as long as the other (notwithstanding the specific name), more 

 nmply niembranous and the olevation at the bend much less broad ; uaore- 

 over, the coloration of the flowers is different, although the Upper calyx- 

 lobes are also completely severed. In the „Flora Australiensis," VI., 338, 

 Keutham has included more than one species uuder the name P. hrevi- 

 lahre. The writer has ventured, to reduce in the first „Systematic Census 

 of Anstialian Plauts", Fourtli Supplement, page 4, and in the „Second 

 Census," page 190, the genus Corunastylis to Prasophyllum, althoughe he 

 had no specimens, on which observations could be instituted of bis own. 

 If Ihe structure, delineated by Mr. Fitzgerald („Australian Orchids", 

 II., part 3) with accustomed splendour and fidelity, is not of aberrant but 

 of normal growth , the genus-characteristics would rest on the incrassed 

 number of tuber.s, on the terminally much appendiculated anther with 

 much incurved connective-membrane , on the resemblance of the paired 

 petais to staminodes, the latter seemingly being absent, unless they replace 

 nndeveloped petals, and on the remarkable elongation of the style ; this 

 htrujture indeed is very curious, and from this, not from statural resem- 

 blance, the specific name apostasioides was derived. I regard Apostasiaceae 

 as a distinct order, intermediate between Orchideae and Burmanniaceae.] 

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 Böhraerwaldes. (Deutsche botanische Monatsschrift. Jahrg. VIII. 1890. No. 1. 

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