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NKW AUSTRALIAN OKCHIDS. 



broadly lanceolate, with fine points, but no glands. Petals light 

 red-brown, half a line long, nearly straight on the iij^iDer edge, but 

 broadly lanceolate on the lower, acute, the point bearing a gland. 

 Labellum articulate, on rather long claw, linear-lanceolate, blunt, 

 thickened, and glandular for about half its length tow^ards the 

 point, with two auricles on the edges about the middle, light red- 

 brown. Wings of column not covering the stigma, shortly bifid, 

 the upper tooth a little longer than the lower, acute, the lower 

 blunt. Stigma linear, with three small glands about one-third 

 from the rostellum, the part between them and the rostellum being 

 probably alone stigmatic. Anther short, with subulate point, about 

 one -third the length of the anther, and with a gland at the end. 



P. longisepalum, sp. n. — Stem stouter than most of the 

 group (except P. viride), about six or seven inches high. Bract 

 linear, acute, close to the flowers. Flowers not opening, brownish 

 yellow and green, in a rather dense spike of about one inch. Sepals 

 linear, blunt, a quarter of an inch long, without gland. Dorsal 

 sepals hooded, lanceolate acute, without a gland, one line and a 

 half long. Petals shorter than dorsal sepal, falcate, thick, with 

 gland on the inside of the blunt point. Labellum articulate, on a 

 long claw, thick, keeled below, smooth and flat above, linear, but 

 broader at each end than in the centre, suddenly contracted at the 

 end into a blunt thick point, red-brown. Wings of column 

 extending from the claw to the rostellum, overlaj^ping the stigma, 

 not bifid, hardly acute. Stigma linear, immersed near the ros- 

 tellum in the grains of the pollen-masses. Anther short, with 

 blunt point (not bearing a gland). 



P. attenuatum, sp. u. — Stem slender, about five inches. Bract 

 with subulate point, close to the flowers. Flowers hardly opening, 

 almost gibbous, red-brown and green, in spike of half an inch long, 

 and formed of about seven flowers. Sepals one line long, almost 

 gibbous, tapering into points, which cross each other, and are 

 terminated by a gland. Dorsal sepal a little more than half a line, 

 hooded, broadly lanceolate acute, without gland. Petals half a line 

 long, lanceolate acute, without gland, shorter than dorsal sepal. 

 Labellum not articulate, ovate-acuminate, smooth, unless it be 

 considered to be wanting, and only represented by the prolongation 

 of the column, which in others forms the hinge, red. Wings of 

 column covering the stigma almost to the end near the rostellum, 

 not bifid, blunt, slightly falcate. Stigma linear-triangular. Anther 

 short and flat, with very small gland at the apex. 



P. laminatum, sp. n. — Stem very slender, about nine inches 

 high. Bract sheathing, half an inch or more from the flowers. 

 Flowers opening, light red, in spike of more than an inch long, 

 formed of about twenty flowers rather far apart. Sepals one line 

 and a half long, lanceolate, with fine point, but no gland. Dorsal 

 sepal of the same length as the other sepals, hooded, broadly 

 lanceolate, with fine point, but no gland, the edges thickened, and 

 of dark red colour. Petals very slightly shorter than the sepals, 

 lanceolate acute, without gland, a dark red line running down the 

 centre and along the edges. Labellum articulate, on rather long 



