324 CXX. ORCHIDEJE. [ Thelymitra. 
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 4, t. 109 A, as to the Tasmanian plant, not of 
E.B r 
(T EE vacet Cireular Head and Rocky Cape, Gunn; Jeny and Port Sorrell, 
Archer; Macquarrie Harbour, Milligan; Southport, C. Stu 
Hooker reduces this to the Port Jackson T. venosa, but it appears to me sufficiently 
distinct in the smaller flowers, the. acuminate anther, acil differently shaped lateral 
lobes of the column. 
29. EPIBLEMA, R. Br. 
Sepals and petals all pes equal and T de hi Labellum ungui- 
culate, the claw with 2 erect thick lobes, the lamina ovate, concave, 
with a tuft of linear processes on the di ane near the base. Column Mel 
short, with erect petal-like thin lateral lobes or appenda 
nected behind the anther. Anther erect or aight bent jae "dió 
cells distinct, with a short recurved point. Apa granular. 
— short.— Terrestrial glabrous herb, with the habit of TAelymi- 
Leaf narrow-li Flowers few in a terminal raceme. 
mu genus is limited to the single species endemic in Australia. 
l. E. grandiflorum, R. Br. Prod. 315. Habit of the slender forms 
of Thelymitra ixioides. Stem erect, 1 to 14 ft. high, with one long 
narrow linear leaf and 1 or 2 smaller des leaves or sheathing scales. 
IT 2 to 5, Pow in a short raceme, the bracts shorter than 
Mich s ss united under the labellum ^ a broad base, and the 
peta e ovate-lanceolate. Labellum as long as the sepals, the claw 
a u "dinis long, the 2 appendages erect rounded and closely parallel, 
the processes of the disk of the labellum long, slightly clavate, ascend- 
ing, % age mes one or two of them deflexed and clasped by the 
appends f the claw. Lateral eppence es of the column broad, 
ap s ars 2 lines long.—Lindl. jen Sp. Orch. 523 ; Endl. in 
is c "bond Reichb. f. Beitr 
€ King George's cds A R. Brown, A. Cunningham, Baxter; 
Swan river, n Drummond ist coll., Preiss, n. 2219 ; Cape. Le Grand, Maxwell; Lake 
Muir, Muir 
90. DIURIS, Sm. 
Dorsal sepal erect, rather broad, closely embracing the column at the 
base, the upper part open ; lateral sepals preuding or d almost herba- 
chao nati the T. lobe iudi contracted at the ase, 
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