Diuris.] CXX. ORCHIDE. à 329 
the D. lanceolata, Lindl.; but I have found many intermediates with slight differences 
in other characters variously combined. ; 
D. pallens, Benth. A small Pun very nearly allied to D. pedun- 
eulata, but distinct as far as I am able to judge from dried specimens in 
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obes still smaller in proportion than in that species, the raised lines or 
plates of the disk converging and ending in a single line along the 
cg but fringed with small calli instead of being pubescent or 
ciliate, 
N, S. Wales. New England, C. Stuart. 
D. abbreviata, F. Muell. Herb. Habit rather more of D. maculata 
than of D. pedunculata, to both of which this species is allied. Leaves 
rather narrow. Flowers pale-coloured when dry, more or less blotched, 
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column at the base, oval-oblong and op u art. Labellum 
3-lobed from above the base, the lateral lobes small, triangular or lan- 
ceolate, faleate; the middle lobe much longer, bro u con- 
obe, quite smooth and glabrous. Lateral lobes of the column acute, 
entire or denticulute, the wings continuous in front with the raised 
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Queensland. Armidale, Perrott; Darling Downs, Law; also a specimen from 
Port Bowen, marked D. dubia, in Herb. R Brown, appears to be this species. 
N. S. Wal New England, C. Stuart. 
- 9. D. setacea, R. Br. Prod. 316. Stems under 1 ft. high. Leaves 
usually very narrow-linear or filiform and rather short. Flowers 1 to3, 
lobe, the labellum being thus characterized as bicarinate by Brown and 
unicarinate by Lindley. Lateral lobes of the column narrow acute, 
as long as the anther.—Lindl Gen. and Sp. Orch. 508 ; Reichb. £ 
. Beitr. 12; D. filifolia, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 51, t. 8 B; Gen. and Sp. 
