362 CXX. ORCHIDEE. [Pterostylis. 
or narrow. Basal appendage of the labellum-lamina entire and obtuse, 
or sometimes almost obso 
19. P. barbata, Lindi. Swan Riv. App. 53, Gen. and Sp. Orch. 388. 
Stems 1-flowered, fro ader 6i arly 1 ft. high. Leaves 
crowded at the base of the stem, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute 
or shortly acuminate, 3 to 1 in. long, sometimes extending halfway up 
the stem, sometimes almost rosulate at the base, passing more or 
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points ; lower m linear, p spreading recurved or reflexed, the lobes 
TOW us de points. — Labellum 4 to ii in. long, 
linear-terete or filiform, Banat with long yellow lah except at the 
end, where it bears a broad glabrous nearly square complicate entire 
or toothed appendage, and at the base where it is glabrous, thickene 
the lower part of ‘the column very narrowly winged.—P. squamata, 
Lindl. Gen. and Sp: Orch. 388 ; Hook. f£ FL Tasm. ii. 90, t. 116, not 
of R. Br. 
Victoria. Wendu Vale, Robe dier. : 
Tasmania. Common in sandy s L4 JD. Hooker and others. 
s. o apu acres Mount Lofty Made F. Mueller. 
tralia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. ; King George's Sound, Muir ; 
7. (Stem F. Mueller. 
The species is also in New Zealand, 
P. turfosa, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 5. Stem short, slender, 
135 2d Leaves short, linear, dioa, ‘all nearly SM and equally 
distributed along the stem, the upper one or bract subtending the 
terminal pedicel rather larger than the others. Galea erect, much 
like that of P. barbata but with a long filiform point, the linear lower 
lip also with long points to the lobes. Labellum linear-terete, bearded 
with long rid hairs as in P. barbata, the end unknown, being broken 
off 
w. tralia. Stirlin bine Had n. 2632.—1 have not seen any specimen ; 
the above character is taken írom a sketch and description sent to me by Reiche nbach 
fil, and drawn up by him from the only known specimen now in the pa Herbarium 
21. P. mutica, R. Br. Prod. 328. Leaves in a radical rosette at the 
base of the flowering stem sometimes but not usually withering away 
at the time of flowering, ovate, very s geng petiolate or almost sessile, 
mostly $ to fin. long. Ste m 4 to Šin, high, with 1 to 5 empty sheath- 
ing bracts, ‘besides Es subtending the pedicels, all obtuse or the 
