Thelymitra. | CXX. ORCHIDEJE. 323 
Tasmania. Georgetown, Archer. 
S. — á Bey nme bay, Whittaker ; ; Tamunda and EPE F. Mueller. 
W. Austr ing George's Sound to Swan river, Wakefield, F. Mueller, 
fa, lst boll. Ath coll. n. 230, 5th coll. n. 116, ens 2181, and many others ; 
dii ard to Bremer and Esperance bays, Maxwell, D 
. 13. T. Macmillani, F. Muell. Fragm. v. bx Habit and foliage of 
T vds ib put perhaps nearer allied to 7. variegata. Sepals and 
petals about 4 in. long, appar ntly deep coloured (ut p). Colum 
wing awo into 2 lateral 1 divergin obes as long as the anther, 
an ctoria. Port Phillip, M ‘Millan; a AES specimen in Herb. F. Mueller.—The 
Species requires further investigation and may prove to be an abnormal form of one of 
the allied species or possibly a hybrid. 
14. 'T. variegata, Lindl. in s Benth. Stem not very stout, 1 ft. 
high or rather more, with 2 to 4 large flowers. Leaf with a villous 
sheath, the lamina usually glabrous, linear, much dilated at the base 
and often undulate. Sepals and petals lanceolate, shortly Mum 
dark-coloured p varieg gated. Column nea rly 
la: 
aldia variegata and M. spiralis, Lindl. Swan Riv. "i 50, Gen. and 
Sp. Orch. 385, 386; Thelymitra gerplarseian F. Muel Fragm. v. 97. 
W. Au strali ver, d, 1st coll. ; Kalgan river, Maxwell. 
form spiralis is fp sages a distinct vant ero ndulate or bid. "base of the leaf 
occurs in some of the larger as well as in the sail er and more slender specimens. 
15. T. venosa, R. Br. Prod. 914. A of some of the rather 
larger forms of T. imioides. Stem 1 to 2 ft. high, with a long narrow 
af and a raceme of 6 to 10 blue fob abe Sepals and petals I to 2 in. 
P long, veined as in 7. ixioides. Column broadly winged, with 2 long 
_ linear obtuse erect lateral lobes, not connected behind the anther and 
more or less spirally involute. Amnther scarcely acuminate, shorter 
than the c olumn-lobes. Ma edonaldia i ndl. Swan Riv. App. 50, 
iy e 
 Anthér acuminate and often Midler amit eo. E Lindl. 
Swan Riv. App. 50; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 886; Thelymitra venosa, 
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