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- Pterostylis.] .CXX. ORCHIDEE, 365 
Shaped, with a short point in front directed downwards ; lower li 
rather broadly ovate, voe than the galea, concave, recurved, with 
short acuminate lobes ellum on a rather long claw oblong, about 
2 lines long, slightly o and emarginate or 2-lobed at the end, 
e margins ciliate, the basal appendage n more than an obtuse 
thickening of the base of the un ina, and usually with a thick seta or 
linear tooth on one or both margins just edes the base. Column-wings 
with an oblong lower lobe — vows at the end, hien rà of the 
dl. in Pl. Preiss 
S. Australia? Some specimens from ande le range, F. m "E p in e i.d 
barium sors others of P. longifolia from Third "Creek, under the name of P. pri 
sima appear to np se fad a vittata. 
ustralia, Drummond ; King George’s Sound and rr 
districts, Maxwell, Poe $ "2201, 2202, Muir, ‘Miss Warburton; ; Vasse river, Oldfield ; 
Hampden, Cla ~~ 
Thay a hea e to ascertain whether the form of the column-wings be as con- 
sandy y distinct om that prevailing in P. longifolia as it appeared in the few flowers 
exam 
37. S CARDAMA, R. Br. 
The genus is ie to Australia. Allied to Drakea, it is readily known by ne 
large e pet allike wings of thè column, — a kind of pouch open or closed by 
elastic wittons of the lid-like labellu 
Spe bed the labellum and lateral iod inserted at the base of the : 
n . 1. C. major. 
Claw « of the labelicm and lateral sepals inserted at the end of a basal 
projection of the c n. 7 
Leaf narrow linear. "pan ERES ee 
Leaf o ovate or lanceolate. Western species oe e nigrita. 
l. C. major, R. Br. Prod. 329. Leaf radical, linear or narro 
lanceolate, 9 2 to ái in. long. Stem often above 1 ft. bi h, with a singlo 
closely appressed empty s seva bract below the midd dle, and 1 to 4 red 
owers on very short pedicels, the subtending bracts 2 to 4 lines D 
Dorsal sepal narrow-linear, rather thick, channelled, erect or incurved 
