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Mierotis.] ` CXX. ORCHIDEX. 349 
faleate, acute, concave but less hood: sha Apes than in M. Perera 
and contracted at the base, 14 to 2 lines = or in some 
pa arts, and yo. a pair of marginal calli below it. Column with 
very prominent narrow auricles.—Lindl Gen. and Sp. Orch. 396; 
up ja Beitr. 23. 
tralia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Oldfield, 
FL Mueller oe others ; sere in to Esperance bay and Cape Le Gran d, Maxwell; 
Swan river, Dr "ummond, 1 coll. 
e specimens from various collectors have smaller flowers, with a narrower 
5. M. atrata, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 54, Gen. and Sp. Orch 395. 
The smallest of all the species, NET only 3 to 4 in. high and rarely 
exceeding 6 in., of a bnght when fresh, but usually dryin 
gang p especialy the flowers. Leaf usually short, but the long sheat 
almost to the inflorescence. Flowers minute, in a rather dense 
ie of 3 to 13 in. Dorsal Ton concave, very obtuse, about j line 
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strie.—Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 6; M. minutiflora, F . Muell. Fragm. 
i. 90. 
Victoria. Portland, Allitt ; near og Adamson; Grampians, F. Mueller. 
stralia. King George's Sound, R. Brown; near Perongerup an d Mount 
: W. Au 
. Clarence, F. Mueller ; Sieh river, Drummond, 1st coll, n. 852, Preiss, n. 77408. 
6. M. pulchella, R. Br. Prod. 921. Stem slender, under 1.ft. high. 
Leaf narrow and short. Spike not dense, rarely 2 in. long, the bracts 
very small and the pedicels AK short, the flowers arog of a yellowish 
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bearing a - oblong thickening towards the end. Capsule ovoid.— 
Reichb. f. Bei 
Ww. vba pet George's Sound, R. Brown, mmond, n. 307 
` Lindley does not appear to have examined this very distinct species, of which there 
