puce _- 
Cryptostylis. | OXX. ORCHIDEE.  — 335 
. S. Wales. Springwood, Ji. Cunningham, a single specimen ; Kurrajong, Mrs. 
Tedin two siad specimens. 
93. PRASOPHYLLUM, R. Br. 
Flowers reversed. Dorsal sepal lanceolate or broad, concave, usually 
arched over the column and sometimes adnate to it at the e ensis 
sepals as long or longer, lanceolate or linear, free or more or les 
ort 
Flowers expe! coloured, often pale or greenish yellow, coe e 
humerous in a terminal spike, vis 
as to appear very spreading orr 
des the Australian species there are pu in New Zealand, one of T appa- 
rently identical with an Australian one. The habit of the genus and many of its 
characters are ey are of. Microtis from which it differs in the revers = omer, ‘the more 
The lateral sepals in two or three instances have been described as 2.dentate. I 
have never found them so, and believe the error to have arisen either from a slip of a 
on referring to lateral sepals instead of the lateral appendages of the column, or the 
Writer to have meant the lip composed of the two combined lateral sepals. 
Secr. 1. Euprasophyllum.— Labellum sessile at the base of the column. 
Flowers ey above 3 lines long. Ovary elongated, narrow. 
zr ants. Lateral sepals connate at least in the 
Labellum with a broad gibbous thickish base, the inner 
late broad, eger — reaching beyond the 
ind. Leaflamina lon 1. P. australe. 
Labellum with a pecie narrow but obtuse base, the inner 
p broad, but commencing only about the middle. 
eaf-lamina very short and erect . 2. P. flavum. 
Labellum slightly contracted at the ba se, "the inner plate 
covering the greater part of the surface with its broad 
detached margins. Lukasia lng . . . . . . 8&.P. datum. 
species rc P brevilabre. 
Labellum gradually curved; Western species 11 5. P. hians. 
