84 Alfred J. Ewart : 



Heads on stalks of usually 5 or more cui., 1 to ^ cm. lon^f, 

 and nearly as broad as long. Basal and outer bracts small, 

 sessile and obtuse, the inner larger, developing pronounced claws 

 with glands on the outer surface, and liecoming more pointed ; 

 all with shining transparent unwrinkled and unfringed laminas. 

 Outer rows of florets, female, ligulate, pale to brownish-yellow, 

 with usually three blunt points, projecting beyond the bracts. 

 Inner disc florets tubular and hern)aphrodite, with five shorf> 

 blunt, equal teeth, 'i'hese in both florets are usually tipped with 

 red. Pappus of about eighc or ten flue bristles, minutely fringed 

 but not plumose, present on all the florets. 



The plant appears to come between P. Lessoni, and P. rugata. 

 It is easily distinguished from the recently described P. (ieorgei 

 of Diels, by the facts that the outer florets are ligulate, the leaves 

 are never opposite, and the inner scales have curved glandular 

 stalks. The smooth scales distinguish it fi'om P. rugat;i, and its 

 size and the colour of the florets from P. Lessoni. 



Ptekostylis reflkxa, R. Br., var. intermedia, n. var. 

 (Orchidaceae). 



This plant has been referred at different times to various 

 species and was finally classed by Baion von Mueller as a variety 

 of P. obtusa. Although closely related to P. ohtusa it differs 

 from that species in various features. The leaves on the evanes- 

 cent basal rosette are three-veined instead of flve-veined, and the 

 two lateral veins are often very faint. The leaves ai-e also 

 smaller and more orbicular. The flowering stem is covered with 

 fine closely-set short papillae, especially short and dense on the 

 stalk and ridges of the ovary, and on the undei- surfaces of the 

 leaves. The upper leaves on the flowering stem are often more 

 than an inch long and nearly (juarter of an inch broad, the edges 

 finely denticulate, and contracted to a subulate brownish, often 

 curved tip usually one-eighth of an inch or more in length, but 

 less developed on the basal leaves. The iabellum is lanceolate. 

 strongly contracted in its upper third to a i'eddi.sh-l)rown entire 

 tip. TIh^ l)asal appendage is curved and irregularly fringed with 

 cilia along its distal third, the terminal cilium being larger than 

 the rest. In other respects the plant bears a close resemblance 



