PTEROSTYLIS FOLIATA. Native of Victoria, Tasmania and New' Zealand. 
This is a very slender plant which gets its name from the fact that the leaves, 
which are comparatively large, grow up the stem, giving it a. much leafier appear- 
ance than most of the species. Flower small, green, the tip of the hood dark 
brown. The extended tips of the sepals erect. Tongue large, oblong, the tip 
being blunted and recurved. Flowers Winter and Spring. 
PTEROSTYLIS FURCILLATA. Native of New South Wales. 
Similar to P, decurva, but with basal leaves (usually only two). Tongue slightly 
notched. Flowers in Autumn, 
PTEROSTYLIS GRANDIFLORA. Native of Queensland, New South Wales and 
Victoria, 
One of the handsomest species. Stem from 6 to 12 inches long, furnished with a 
number of long, narrow, pointed leaves. Flowers solitary, in colour rich green 
marked with rich red brown. Tips of the petals widely dilated. Tips of the sepals 
erect, extended into tails gracefully curved. Tongue long, the tip club-shaped. 
Grows in mountain gullies. Flowers in Winter and Spring. 
PTEROSTYLIS LONGIFOLIA. Native of Queensland, New South Wales, Vic- 
toria, South Australia, and Tasmania. 
A tall slender plant, the stems being a foot high or more. These are clothed with 
a number of long, linear, lanceolate, pointed leaves, up to 2 inches long, the middle 
leaves being longer than those at the top and the base. Flowers, from three to 
seven on the stem, small, green tipped with yellow and red. Lower sepal pendent. 
Tongue thick and glandular, and very sensitive. Flowers in Winter and Spring. 
PTEROSTYLIS MITCHELLII. Native of Queensland, New South Wales, Vic- 
toria, South Australia, and Tasmania. 
A slender, multiflowered species growing from a small rosette and reaching from 
3 to 10 inches in height. Up to eight flowers are borne on the spike. These are 
green or greenish-white flecked or lined with red-brown. The fine tails of the 
lower sepals are divergent. Tongue narrow and slipper-shaped, and clothed with 
a few hairs. Flowers in Winter and Spring. 
PTEROSTYLIS MUTICA. Native of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, 
South Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. 
A variable species which is most often short and robust in form, but is sometimes 
tall and slender and, rarely, short and slender. It grows from a basal rosette of 
leaves which usually are in the process of decay by the time the flowers are 
opened. The spike bears up to 15 small green flowers readily identifiable by the 
tongue which points inwards. Flowers in Winter and Spring. 
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