Pterostylis.] CXX. ORCHIDEJX. 357 
N. S. Wales. Cudgee, E. Cunningham; Grose river, Miss Atkinson, apparently 
oe wg species, although the basal appendage of the labellum has no tuft of cilia at 
e end. ^ 
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple,2. Brown ; abundant in shady places, J. D. Hooker, 
and others. 
usually only 4 in. and rarely 4 in. long & single empt 
eathing bract, which as well as the one subtending the terminal 
pedicel is usu o te and spreading than in P. pe lata 
e 
Galea as in that species but little above 4 in. long, erect, abruptly 
curved towards the end, but obtuse or scarcely acute in front. Lower 
tooth, the lower lobe oblong and obtuse.—Lindl. Gen. . Orch. 
391; Reichb. f. Beitr. 37; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 19, but not the plate 
114 B, which may perhaps have been taken from P. concinna. 
Victoria. Wendu Vale, Robertson ; Port Phillip, F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; Woolnorth and Circular Head, Gunn ; 
Bagdad, Miss Forster; Oyster Cove, Milligan; Southport, C. Stuart. 
ustralia. ount Gambier, Mrs. Wehl. : 
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond (doubtful); Blackwood river, Oldfield ; 
Monjerup, F. Mueller; Upper Hay river, Miss Warburton. 
8. P. p idalis, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 53, Gen. and Sp. Orch. 388. 
Very closely allied to P. nana and the flower almost identical in size 
na, and t 
P. pedunculata in which the lanceolate bases of the lobes are separated 
= by an acute sinus.— P. barbata, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 5, not of Lindl. 
eichb, f.) | 
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond ; Gordon river, Oldfield ; Lake Muir, Muir. 
9. P. cucullata, R. Br. Prod. 327. Usually a low plant, rarely 
much above 6 in. with a single large flower. Leaves crowded at the 
base of the stem and sometimes s iris rosulate, often larger than in 
any other species, ovate or oblong-elliptical, 1 to 3 in. long, passing into 
_ lto3 empty almost leaf-like bracts, the one subtending the terminal 
_ pedicel very loosely sheathing, ovate-lanceolate, above 1 in. long. Galea 
