Levenliookia.] Lxni. stylidie^. 35 



petiole, the leafy bracts similar or rather narrower. Tedicels sliort or scarcely 

 exceeding: the leaves. Calyx a little more than 1 line long. Corolla-tube 

 shorter than the calyx-lobes (longer, Sonder) ; lobes obovatc, contracted at 

 the base but scarcely clawed, about 1 line long, equal (or 3 shorter, Sonder), 

 apparently white, with a yellow, somewhat glandular throat; labcllum on a 

 short claw, the small, hood-shaped, pale or slightly-coloured lamina much 

 shorter than the lobes. Cohnnn slender. Stigma obovate, entire (2-lobed, 

 F. Mueller). — L. creberrhna, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 121. ' 



Victoria. Very common in pastures, both in the plains and in the mountains, from the 

 ■n-eptern limits of Gipps' Land, F. Mueller, 



S_ Australia. Very common round St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller, 

 W. Australia. Swan River, Drmnmond^ \st Coll. «. 516, i'mw, m, 2252; Stirling 

 Range, F. Mneller. I can discover no difference whatever between the W. Australian and 

 the Victorian specimens, nor have I'been able to trace the 2 lobes of the style described by 

 -T. Mueller in the latter. There may be, however, in this respect some slight sexual 

 difference. 



3. I*. Sonderi, F. Muell. Fragm, i. 18. Glandular-pubescent, 1 to 

 2 in. hit;h, simple in all the specimens seen. Leaves petiolate, orbicular, 1 

 to \\ lines diameter, the leafy bracts rather smaller and narrower. Calyx 

 about 1 line long-. Corolla-tube slioi'ter than the calyx-lobes, and the lobes 

 out little exceeding them, obovate and nearly equal. Labellum with a 

 very short claw, the hood-shaped lamina of a deep purple and nearly as long 

 as the lobes. Style distinctly 2-lobed. — Coleodyles Sanderi, F. Muell. in 

 Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 46. 



Victoria. Violet Creek, Wilhelmi. Scarcely differs from Z. dubia iu the larger deep- 

 coloured labellum. 



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4. la, panciflora, Benth, in Hueg. Enum. 74. Glandular-pubescent, 

 especially in the upper part, 2 to 3 in. high, simple in all the specimens seen. 

 Leaves ver\^ few and small, petiolate, ovate or orbicular, the leafy bracts 

 oblong-spathulate and still smaller. Plowers few, on rather long pedicels, in 

 ^ very short, terminal raceme. Calyx nearly 2 lines long. Corolla-tube 

 exceeding the calyx-lobes ; lobes white, streaked with red, obovate-oblong or 

 spathnlate, 2 of them 3 lines long, the 2 others rather shorter; labellum on 

 a short claw, the lamina much shorter than the other lobes, broadly liood- 

 shaped, of a deep purple, with long, entire, uncoloured appeiulages at the 

 l>ase and a fringed appendage in the terminal notch. Style shortly 2-lobed 

 01* quite entire, the colunin usually with a membranous dilatation imme- 

 diately under the anthers.— DC. Prod. vii. 838 ; i. stglidioides, Y. Muell. 

 -Fragm. vi. 77, 



^-Australia. Kin;: Gcorcc's Sound to Stirling Raw^^e, Iluegel, Collie, OlJfield, 

 ^- Mueller. " ^ 



5. L. leptantliaj BentJi. Very slender, 1 to 3 in. high, usually simple 



and hirsute with a few small scattered hairs. Lower leaves obovate, upper 

 ojies lanceolate, 1 to 2 lines long, narrowed into a short petiole. Flowers 

 very few, iji g short, simple raceme or cluster. Calyx scarcely above |- line 

 jpng- Corolla-tube slender, nearly 2 lines long, the lobes obovate, about \\ 

 "lies long, narrowed into a short cla^v ; labellum very short, the purple hood- 

 ^^^ped lamina deeply notched. Column very sliort. Stigma entire, not 



^^ceeding the anthers. 



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