964 CXX. ORCHIDEJ. [ Pterostylis. 
from Port Jackson, appears to me to be merely a tall-growing luxuriant state of the 
Loup short- m nted fo: 
river specimens have the sepa'-points Seid 4 in. long, and i o specim n Her 
F. j^ one rii: Queensland, Bowman, the os er ae Salt Cade preter 
F. Mueller, these points vary from 3 to Spade 1 in. in length. 
23. P. longifolia, R. Br. Prod. 327. Stems rather slender, but 
often 1ft. high or rather more, without any radical rosette, the lower 
leaves reduced to short sheathing scales, those at and above "the middle 
of the stem linear or linear- lanceolate, acute or acuminate, from under 
1 to above 2 in. long, very (REM sheathing at the base. Flowers 3 to 
7, in a terminal raceme. Galea 5 to 7 lines, more or less incurved above 
, acute or with a 
short point in front; lower lip reflexed, 4 to 5 lines long, oblon n8, 
process at the end, the basal R very shor übt use an Pal y 
erect. Column-wings very broad, nearly mure or ER hatchet- 
shaped, the EUM ‘ciliolate or entire.— Lindl. Sp rch. 388; 
i ok. f. Fl. Tasm. ii, 22, t. 117; Reichb. f. Beitr 
S. Wales DRE ackson to the Blue Mot € vee [650 Sieber, n. 160, A. 
and "ya Cunningham, and care others ; Illawarra, Backhouse. 
ictoria. Forest Creek, Mount Disappoi lota; Wilson’ 8 Vct depart Nangaita 
range, &c., F. Mueller ; Grampians, Fisher; E. Gipps' Lan "i vet : 
RM. , Common in dry soil in forest land, "D. 
S. + Mount Lofty range, between Mount ponas and Rivoli bay, 
F ale. 
"The species varies much in the length and breadth of the leaf, in the size of the 
flowers, he length of the lobes of the lower lip and the precise form of the heme 
especially of its terminal appendage, and it seems sometimes Malo f io pass into 
P. vittata. 
24. P. vittata, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 58, Gen. and Sp. Orch. 389. 
Allied to P. longifolia and like that phere without any rosette of “radical 
leaves to the flowering stem, but usually a stouter and much more leafy 
iem Stems 8 in. to above 1 ft. high, often angular in the dried state. 
ves lanceolate, narrow or broad, ‘acute, usually clasping the stem — 
ah rounded auricles, the lower one or two reduced to sheathing 
es. Flowers in a more compact raceme than in P. longifolia, the 
bracts more leaf-like. Galea 5 to 6 lines long, broad, very much 
curved near the base and above the middle so as to be quite helmet- 
