Acianthus, | CXX. ORCHIDER. 371 
Tasmania. Circular Head, Gunn; Cheshunt, Archer; Southport, C. Stuart; 
Um" St 
faceres Lofty Range, F. Mueller, 
. „Some specimens from Port Phillip, F. Mueller, have very much reduced e 
either with much enlarged or with very small bracts, all probably abnormal stat 
viridis, Hook. . Fl. Tasm. ii. 372. A small grim the e corinne 
ow the m 
long and very obtuse. La 2 lines lon ng, | essile, rhomboidal, 
paneave, slightly undulate, e ed with 2 calli at the 1 base but I could 
t clear rly see them in the only flower I could examine. Colum 
t as in Caladenia, Pollen not seen 
pip. Base of Mount Wellington, Gunn, Oldfield. 
40. ERIOCHILUS, R. Br. 
Tec or very n 
Anther erect, not mucronate, 2-celled, the outer valves large, folde 
over and concealing the small inner valves; pollen at eMe powdery 
granular but much less so than in crm and usually seen in 4 
distinct and almost smooth masses in each cell, contracted at one end 
into points or short cau dde .— Terrestrial glandular-pubescent or hairy 
rarely glabrous herbs, with small underground tubers. Leaf solitary at 
the base of or higher r up the stem, ovate or ficit. Flowers pink or 
white, 1 or more nearly sessile on a scape or peduncle, without empty 
bracts above leaf, each flower subtended by a short loosely sheath- 
ing ovate bra 
The genus is pd to Australia. In all the flowers examined in which I have 
found the pollen-masses still in situ, their consistence has been much more solid and 
less granular than in any of the allied genera except Acianthus. F. Mueller, however, 
odas n the fresh state no difference between the pollen of Hriochilus and that 
eat t ie Mite 2 Sanaian pub Labellum without : 
broad. Ste andular-pubescent. um withou dione t 
lateral lobes, iu midi rs ovate-oblon "e 5 tern species. 1. E. autumnalis. 
Labell llum with small erect lateral lobes, the middle lobe nearly 
estern species. 
Leaf maeri Stem villous i 1 un UN scaber. 
‘ Leaf narrow. Stem glabrou . 8. E. tenuis. 
o lef mae Sh way up the stem, "Plant nearly glabrous. Western 
Labellum middle-lobe ovate-oblong. Flowers rarely above 3 . 4. E. dilatatus. 
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