368 CXX. ORCHIDEJE. [Drakea. 
recurved auricles, with a short triangular lobe at the base of each on 
the upper side. Stigma without - or only with a very short terminal 
point.—Spiculea ciliata, Lindl. iv. App. 56, with a woodcut, 
Gen. and Sp. Orch. 428; Endl. in a Pl Preiss. ii. 10. 
WV. Australia. Swan river, wiesen. 1st coll., 4th coil. n. 325. 
Queensland. Brisbane river, Misit bay, Y. Hill, F. didis C. Prentice; 
resign bay, Dallachy. 
C. Prentice collected in June, 1867, a specimen with bis maya An oo proceeding 
from a taft “of lanceolate leaves 2 or 3 in. lo ong. These may have been the or eei 
leaves of the plant, which appear usually ata different t time of year fr gai the flower 
but in this instance the plant had probably aia abnormally at the feafing time. 
3. D. elastica, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 55 with a woodcut, Gen. and Sp. 
Orch. 428. Tat " radical, broadly doe gules etl or almost is cn 
attached, broadly ovate but very convex and the sides emis y 
y 
folded back so as to conceal the under sicko the upper surface covered 
with short thick hairs or calli except the smooth tip, the lower lobe 
or appendage solid and fleshy, half as long as the upper one. Column 
e as long as the sepals, abruptly incurved in the mid le, wi 
w wings produced into auricles at the base and somewhat 
dilated under the anther, the basal projection of the column sup we l 
the labellum about 3 lines long and linear like the claw. ; Rostellum 
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