A contribution to the orchidology of Tasmania

Slightly hairy, very slender, about 6.5-15 cm. high, a cylindrical sheath at the base. The leaf incomplete in my specimens, narrow linear, almost glabrous, a1pparently rather long. Flowers 1-3; pedicels slender, rather long, subtended by a narrow acute bract. Segments of perianth somewhat similar, dusky and glandular-hairy on the outer side; lateral sepals spreading, elliptical, acute, about 1.2-1.5 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, 5-7-veined; dorsal sepal erecto-incurved, slightly concave, about 1.1-1.2 cm. long, 3 mm. wide, subacute, lanceolate; p·etals fal.co-elliptical, acute, spreading, 5-nerved, a:bout 1.1-1.2 cm. long, 2.5 mm. wide. Labellum clawed, nearly equal in length to the column, transv·ersely barred, 3- lobed; lateral lobes large rounded entire or slightly notched anteriorly, middle lobe triangular 1:ecurvEd with pectinate or denticulate margins; -caili in 4 rows, linear, bent, be-coming s~orter towards the apex. Golumn ereeto-incurved, rather Widely winged above, transversely barred. Anther shortly mucronate.