153 TWO NEW AUSTRALIAN ORCHIDS, 
man-Bang and Vahl were the real authors of the plant, but not its 
publishers. Perhaps this was what led Dumortier to re-name the 
lant. 
: P. renurrouius H. B. K. Nov. gen. et <p. i. ie as ase gi 
This is merely a form or perhaps variety of P ere 
is a var. tenutfolius Mer. et Koch, Deut. Fl. 1823, ts petlthatis). 
tenuifolius F. ier itt in herb. Berlin ~ litt! is a good species, dis. 
persed over South America as far south as Cordoba, in the 
co adsorb, (Hisesarystrad !), chic Prof. Philippi will, it is 
ed, describ 
P. tenuifolius Rafinesque, Medical Reports ii. 46 (1811), 
may es, it seems impossible to say (I know of no specimens in 
Europe or America), unless it can be shown conclusively what he 
meant by the reference ‘“‘ P. lucens Michx. fl. bor. Amer. nec non 
Linn.” 
Rafinesque’s names have seldom been taken up by recent 
authors, bat where his references and ae aes point to some 
a aiereesstsr that can be examined and shown to be his plants, they 
must be restored on the ground of priority, notwit oe the 
Saisie. extent of "his plant-naming of after years 
(To be continued.) 
TWO NEW AUSTRALIAN ORCHIDS. 
By R. D. Frrzeeratp, F.L.S. 
ELOPETALUM, gen. nov. — Sepals nearly — the 
teral ones connate with a projection | of the column, tals 
absent. Labellum thick, attached to the basal projection a the 
column, near the end, entire and sh into a claw, but not 
ulate. Column short-winged and toothed at the top, ~ with 
-like SE HON j 
a + just below the tooth. Anthers terminal, 
capping the masses, Pollen-masses 2, globular, Schodhug) 
above a sm: Fosiallatn; but not connected with i Flowers 
reversed, numerous, terminal on filiform se ce which issues 
from below the pseudo-bulb. Small bracts at the bases of the 
icels, larger and leafy on the peduncle. Herbs with creeping 
rhizomes connecting the iaved conical furrowed pseudo-bulbs. 
lopetalum bracteatum, sp. n. — Rhizome sit en 
forming a mass. Pseudo-bulbs globular or conical, with s 
seven vertical ridges, much marked after the leaves fall off. fulves 
solitary on the pseudo-bulbs, oblong, channelled along the centre, 
thick, contracted at the ba met 3 in. long by 4 in. wide. peter 
orm, from 14 to 2 in. long, bearing 8-10 leafy bracts, 
spective of the bracts below the flowers, and about 12 siwabh th on 
ort pedicels. Bracts on peduncle sagan. acute, transparent, 
colourless, 2 lines long, mai line broad. Flowers reversed, without 
h i ateral se 
8 lines long, united for it. line. Dorsal al 
