950 — CXX. ORCHIDER, [ Microtis. 
is no specimen in his herbarium, but only a tracing of Bauer's drawing of it; the 
Eastern specious he mistook for it appear to me to be referrible M. porrifolia. 
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85. OR saan TEN R. Br. 
hor 
or duos into a large concave débil in or fringed lamina closely 
reflexed. Colum n short, erect, variously: thickened under the stigma 
Flower solitary, sessile within the leaf or very ate ‘pedicellate, pe 
small subtending bract usually close to the leaf. 
The genus is also in New Zealand and soe "rad I ipelago. The Australian 
mos are all - emic. lcannot a v h Reichenbach f. in reviving Salisbury's 
name of 9 e und of. prio of general publication. It has been univer- 
sally rejected as havi n suit pitoogl? described a d figured, and falsely charac- 
zed from the éuipeetión of a drawing of Bauer's with Brown's name attached to it, 
s was well known at the time, and was published on authority which could not be and 
was not denied. In the following descriptions ave been obliged to take from 
Bauer's m ished drawings some details which it was impossible to verify from dried 
cimen 
Dorsal pu with a narrow linear claw as long as the eal 
lamina. ae without basal spur, the tube broad, 
lamina very shor 1. C. unguiculata. 
Dorsal "on gradu wm contracted towards the base. Labellum 
slightly 2-gibbous at the base, the lamina large, reflexed, con- i 
e denticulato, or fringed - . 2. C. fimbriata. 
Dorsal sepal with a broad base. "Labellum 2-spurred at the base, 
broad an Mai ee boue with a irem recurved con- 
vex margin . 8. C. bicalcarata. 
1. C. unguiculata, R. Br. Prod. 328. Leaf rather more ovate than 
in the two following species. Ovary rather long. Dorsal sepal abruptly 
contracted into a linear claw of 2} to 3 lines erect at the base and then 
much incurved, the lamina nearly orbicular, concave, about 3 lines 
diameter ; lateral sepals and petals — GÀ ar, sometimes nearly as 
long as the dorsal one but variable. Labellum rather longer, the tube 
ovoid, oblong, incurved, somewhat inflat de not unlike that of the 
corolla of pi species of Digitalis, the orifice very shortly and pe mc 
expanded into a denticulate lamina, with a "v ngitudina. broad 
line inside. Column very short. simie he wings qao a lower 
oblong reflexed lobe, as in several. species of sitate —End). Iconogr. 
t. 18; Corybas wnguiculatus, Reichb. f. Beitr. 
N. s. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, A. we 
I have only n" three specimens of this species, all very small, one in Herb. R. 
Brown in the same sheet as one of C. bicalcarata (referred by Reichenbach f. by mis- 
take to C. pruinosa, C unn;) the two others in Herb. A. Cunningham, also mixed with 
