344 CXX. ORCHIDER. [ Prasophyllum. 
inner late ce occupying about 3 of the breadth and extending to 
the en appendages of the column almost as long as the petals, | 
acutely ibd « at e end. Rostellum rather long. Anther shorter, with 
short fine inflexed point difficult to see and sometimes wantin ng.— 
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orc 513; mane f. Beitr. 19. 
N.S. Wales. Port Jac Woo 
Tasmania. Oyster Ceres Mitigan; Southport C. Stuart. 
S. Australia. Port Lincoln, 4 
the inner ' plate with raised margins Pei ng t e greater part of its 
breadth. Column very short below ther, the lateral appendages 
about is line long, Msn te or 2-fid. er mucronate, rather long 
Stigma much shorter, with a minute rostellum.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. 
Orch. 513; Reich. 1 f "Beitr. 20; P.nudum, Hook. f. Fl. N. Zel. i. 242, 
Fl. Tasm. ii. 14, t. 113 (partly). 
Queensland. Rockingham bay, DEM, 
E: = Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brow 
Wilson’s » Promontory and W detai Port Wi Roten the lateral appendages of 
the feat almost ———— . Mueller ; Station Peak, Fullag 
Tasmani t, Archer 
Var.? mue wih a MEAM aolum, but the small narrow sepals and pet tals 
poe to ut ather those of P. rufum than of P. nigricans.—Port Jackson, Woolls, 
The gon is also in New Zealand. ^ Genoplesium Baueri, R. Br. Prod. 319, 
Reichb. f. Beitr. 21, of which no specimen appears to have been preserved, is founded on 
asophyllum, and appears to me rather to belong u^ me aj iig ge than to the following 
ed, re- 
Lig in e species correctly as to the po gs, E the Zia apait ana T 
18. P. brachystachyum, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 513. Nearly 
allied to P. migricans, with the same habit, but raat known by its 
much hehe lighter coloured flowers, whi h A re again distinguished 
of P. rufum chiefly by their siz ize. ikes 1 usually short and 
e acuminate, but with- 
out the distinct f igricans, scarcely dilated or slightly 
gibbous at the babes poen sepal shorter and broader, but not nearly 
so broad P. nigricans. Labe articulate on a short basal pro- 
I 
inn of the column, lanceolate, neither ciliate nor fringed; the inner 
plate forming thick raised lines within the margin. Column about as 
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