Prasophyllum.| XX. ORCHIDER. 339 
in a thick bepillesestringed callus. Column rather long, the lateral 
Shpondagpa adnate ne side, falonte, acute, entire. Anther short. 
alia. ee odi s Sound, F. Mueller; Harvey river, Oldfield ; also 
i Disha collection, but our specimens too much injured for positive identification. 
6. P. patens, R. Br. Prod. 318. Stems usually tall but varying from 
1 to 3 ft., the length of the eaf also. very variable. Flowers usuall 
smaller than in P. elatum, larger than in P. fuscum, of a iud uma 
green, the labellum bordered with white, but neither the size nor the 
shade of colour constant. Ovary obovoid or sho ortly oblong. Sepals 
lanceolate, acute or obtuse, pepe 4 lines long, = lateral ones quite 
free, the petals of the same length but more obtuse and much more 
petal-like in consistence. deut as long as the fines sessile but 
oblong, o 
almost lanceolate, but always shows a conaibh [Mnt N of a: e 
argin, the inner plate not very nrg ae much narrower than the, 
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l, t. 111; Reichb. T Beitr. 19. 
Queensland. Armidale, Perrott 
ales. Port Jacks on, 7 Bro Woolls, and others; in the interior, 
Non as, JM Arthur ; Mudgee, Taylor; New iE ey Q. Stuart; southward to Two- 
. fold hey and Mürniy river, F. Mueller. 
oria. Wendu Vale, Robertson; mouth of the Nano Allitt; Port Phillip, 
Gunn ; ci lng Cobras mountains, Wimmera, F. er. 
Sheng a. Abundant in moist ground throughout “the island, J. D. Hooker and 
à X3 Australia. From Mount Gambier to St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller and many 
. others, 
P. tru m, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 513, Host, t: f Tasm. ii. 12, t. 109, dis- 
q tinguished t oy [^ slightly prominent lateral tooth o column appendages and by the 
. inner plate of the labellum terminating abruptly a lite Rug the bend and not dying 
on the amina, does not appear to me to be separable even as a mar dai for 
differences in these respects may be observed almost from specimen to specia 
um, R. me n d. 318. A very variable nei neca 
E lateral sepals nearly as iln narrow, free or in Sealy connate sd 
1 " emit etals rather shorter » "a labels = m ae 
E e sepals, narrower than in P. patens, the erec very concave, 
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