Victorian Plants. 



Length of the labellum fully triple that of its breadth 1767 



1767. Labellum rather dilated towards the upper end. 



Very slender ; leaf undeveloped or proceeding separately from 

 the flowering stem ; spike very short, somewhat distant 

 from the rudimentary stem-leaf ; flowers quite small, dull- 

 reddish ; paired calyx -lobes disjointed, somewhat bulging 

 and then contracted at the base ; paired petals streaked ; 

 labellum narrow- elliptical, conspicuously fringed ; fruit 

 oblique-ellipsoid. . P. fimbriatum. 



Labellum rather attenuated towards the upper end. 



Very slender ; leaf undeveloped or proceeding separately 

 from the flowering stem ; spike usually few-flowered, 

 with a rudimentary leaf close to it ; flowers rather small ; 

 paired calyx-lobes somewhat pale ; petals deltoid-lanceolar, 

 pointed, reddish, streaked ; labellum lanceolar-elliptical, 

 dark -purplish, conspicuously fringed ; fruit oblique -ellip- 

 soid. P. Archeri. 



SFIRANTHES. 



1768. Flowers small, with the exception of the white 



labellum red. 



Lowest or lower leaves often from broad- to linear-lanceolar, 

 upper gradually shorter and clasping, sometimes quite 

 diminutive ; spike elongated, bearing numerous closely 

 approximated spirally uniseriate flowers, often somewhat 

 beset with hairlets ; bracts hardly as long as the flowers or 

 shorter, rarely longer ; labellum upwards dilated, crisped 

 and denticulated ; fruit very small, quite turgid. 



S. Australia. 



1769. Calyx-lobes and petals bluish or violet or almost 



greyish ... ......... 1770 



Calyx-lobes and petals reddish or yellowish ... ... 1774 



1770. Appendages of the gynostemium bright-yellow, rough. 



Bather dwarf, slender ; lower leaf linear, channelled ; upper 

 leaves bract-like ; flowers few or two or one, violet-blue ; 

 appendages of the gynostemium firm, nearly elliptical, 

 somewhat distant, much longer than the interjacent 

 terminal plate ; fruit almost ellipsoid. 



T. Mackibboni. 



Appendages of the gynostemium terminated each by 

 a tuft of hairlets ............... 1771 



