354 CXX. ORCHIDEZE. [ Pterostylis. 
Me acute -— very ves oe Labellum-appendage 
hort and narrow, with 2 or 3 17. P. parviflora. 
Bids: d kde "Tateliam-appeniage very “short obtuse and 
Toi n . - 18. P. aphylla. 
Secr. 2. Catochilus.— Lower ibo; refleced from the base or recurved from 
middle, the short or narrow. Labellum-appendage entire and obtuse, tir ra 
almost obsolete 
Flower large, solitary. Labellum —— or filiform, 
bearded with long hairs, glabrous at the 
Leaves broadly lanceolate, crowded at the ase of the stem, 
diminishing upwards . 19. P. barbata. 
Leaves short eene acuminate, nearly equally distributed | 
along the . 0. P. turfosa. 
Flowers several under i in. long. 
a radical sep persistent or fading away before 
ring, those of the stem reduced to scarious sheaths. 
Sepals all obtuse, the in lip shortly 2-lobed 21. P. mutica. 
pak va ae or rarely Sog fine Tms the lower lip 
. . 22. P. rufa. 
Stems RIAM vithout a radical rosette, 
-Leay r linear- = eolate. Column-wings nearly 
pecie. . 23. P. longifolia. 
cm lanceolate. Column wings with an “oblong lower 
lo estern specie . 24. P. vittata. 
. ANTENNRA.— Lower lip of the flower erect, concave, the 
iN eem ng over the galea and embracing it by their: points, which 
often extend far beyond it. 
SERIES 1. GranpiFLor#.—Flowers large and solitary at the end 
of the scape or stem, or very rarely 2 (only 2 biflorous specimens seen 
out of many hundreds). Labellum oradin at the base into a linear 
appendage, curved up at the end and there terminating in 2 or 8 bristle- 
like lobes or ïn a tuft of cilia (penicillate). 
1. P. ophioglossa, R. Br. Prod. 326. Leaves in a radical rosette, 
shortly petiolate, ovate or broadly oblong, obtuse or mucronulate, 2 to 
y sede aa iy! bach i the transverse veinlets usually uniting in 
ards 
as long as the labellum, reflexed lobe of the wings oblong and obtuse, 
the erect lobe smaller lanceolate and acute. "adl Gen. and Sp. Orch. 
391; Reichb. f. Beitr. 35. 
A Port Curtis, R. Brown; Brisbane river, Moreton bay, F. Mueller, 
Fitzalan, Bailey. 
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