en 
Orchidee.) FLORA OF TASMANIA. 
DisrRrs. New South Wales and Victoria. 
A very different-looking species from the preceding, larger, taller, with more campanulate bright blue flowers, 
the scape usually without flexures.—Stem 1-2 feet high. Bracts two, appressed, with short laminæ; upper outer 
segment of perianth shorter than the inner, two lower longer. Lip obovate, rather expanded. . Column with its 
bifid apices linear, involute, notched at the tips. Anther with an acuminate bifid apex and papillose base.— This 
varies with white and blue flowers. Lindley describes 7. venosa, from Bauer's drawings, as having serrulate seg- 
ments of the perianth; this is not the case with my Sydney specimens, but Archer tells me that the lip has some- 
times small notches along the margin. The Australian specimens have sometimes six flowers, each nearly an inch 
across. —PLATE CII. 4. Fig. 1, section of leaf; 2, side, 3, back 4, front views of column; 4, papille of anther: 
—all magnified. 
§ 2. Column three-lobed at the apex, the middle lobe notched or entire, the lateral projecting forwards and crenulate. 
4. Thelymitra carnea (Br. Prodr. 519); caule gracili subflexuoso 1-3-floro, floribus roseis parvis, 
column apice triloba: lobo medio rotundato crenulato lateralibus porrectis carnosulis crenato-dentatis ver- 
rucosisque, anthera subacuta.—Lind/. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. 519. (Gunn, 756, 757.) (Tas. CII. B.) 
Has. Near Hobarton, Gunn; Georgetown and Cheshunt, Archer.— (Fl. Dec.) 
Distrıg. New South Wales, Victoria, and Swan River. 
A. small, slender species, a span to 18 inches high, with the scape strict, or having a strong double flexure, 
bearing one narrow-linear leaf at the base, and two closely appressed bracts. Flowers two or three, flesh- or rose- 
coloured, small, 4 inch across. Segments of perianth acute. Column with a three-lobed apex, the middle lobe trun- 
cate or rounded, crenulate, the lateral projecting forwards and upwards, rather thick, toothed and warted. Anther 
short, blunt.—Except by wanting the feathery apices of the lateral lobes of the column, I cannot distinguish dried 
specimens of this from small ones of 7. izioides and T. nuda.—Prare CII. B. Fig. 1, section of leaf; 2, side, and 
3, front view of column; 4, basis of anther :—all magnified. 
$ 3. Column three-lobed at the top, the lateral lobes produced into feathery arms, the middle lobe trifid or notched. 
Anther wholly hidden in the column. 
5. Thelymitra nuda (Dr. Prodr. 314); caule strictiusculo 1-10-floro, floribus pallide czeruleis 
roseisve, columnze apice 3-lobz lobo intermedio fornicato rotundato bifido v. emarginato margine integer- 
rimo laterales breviter porrectos plumosos superante, anthera inclusa apice rotundata apiculata.—T. pau- 
ciflora, Br. /. c. T. arenaria, versicolor eí graminea, Tindi. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. 519-521. (Gunn, 58, 
935, 942, 101 in part, 940, 943, 937.) (Tas. CIII. A.) 
Var. 8; columnze lobo intermedio truncato crenulato.—An species distincta ? 
Haz. Abundant throughout the Colony, in various soils and localities. —(Fl. Nov.—Jan.) (v. v.) 
DisraIB. New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia; New Zealand? 
Stems usually a foot high, and three- to six-flowered, but of all degrees of stoutness and slenderness, and 
sometimes 2 feet high, at others 6 inches. Flowers a pale delicate blue, tinged with pink, or passing into pink. 
Column dark purple-towards the apex; the middle and lateral lobes generally yellow; the middle lobe rounded, 
notched, or bifid, its margins more or less inflexed, quite entire; lateral lobes short, more or less feathery. For the 
var. 8 I am indebted to Mr. Archer: it may prove a distinct species, but we have very few specimens.—PLATE 
CII. 4. Fig. 1, lateral, and 2, front view of column; 3, anther; 4, hair of column :—all magnified. 
6. Thelymitra angustifolia (Br. Prodr. 314); caule robusto stricto 4—10-floro, floribus pallide 
ceruleis, columns apice trilobe lobo intermedio fornicato rotundato emarginato v. bifido margine lacero 
fimbriato laterales breviter porrectos plumosos superante, anthera inclusa obtusa breviter apiculata.— 
T. aristata, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. T. grandis, Müller. (Gunn, 101 in part, 941, 939.) 
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