Lyperanthus. | CXX. ORCHIDEX. 375 
spreading or recurved. Labellum abov f as long as the sepals, with 
a short broad erect concave claw, the lateral lobes obsolete, the middle 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, apparently rare, Caley, A. 
Cunningham, Miss Atkinson, Daintree, Fitzgerald. 
49, BURNETTIA, Lindl. 
Anther erect, 2-celled, the outer valves broad; pollen-masses granu- 
ar.—Terrestrial herbs with small underground tubers, leafless at the 
üme of flowering except empty sheathing scales. Leaf solitary at a 
different time of year. Flowers few. 
, ihe genus is limited to a single species endemic in Tasmania. It is very near Cala- 
denia, with which Reichenbac roposes to unite it, but from which it differs in 
habit and in the longitudinal plates on the labellum, as well as in the consistence of the 
Perianth and its more connivent segments. i 
l. B. cuneata, Lind 
iin. high, with several sheathing empty scales, the lower ones short 
and imbricate, the upper ones distant, loose, often 3 in. long, o gute 
png into the acute bracts subtending the pedicels. Leaf (whic 
Tasmania. Rocky Cape, Gunn; Woolnorth, Oyster Cove, Macquarrie Harbour ; 
Milligan ; Southport, C. Stuart. 
