Tab. 7630. 



CALADENIA carnea. 



vae. alba. 



Native of E. Australia and Tasmania. 



Nat. Ord. Oechide^. — Tribe Neottie^k. 

 Genus Caladenia, R. Br. ; {Benih. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 612.) 



Caladenia (Eucaladenia) carnea ; gracilis, sparse pilosa, tuberibus globosis 

 folio elongate- anguste lineari, floribus 1-3, sepalis petalisqne lateralibus 

 consimilibus pollicaribus lanceolatis subacutis, sepalo dorsali erecto 

 lineari-oblongo lateralibus deflexis paullo breviore, petalia deflexis, labello 

 parvo sepalis vix dimidio breviore, lobis lateralibus latis apice rotundatis 

 glabris, termiDali parvo ovato obtuso recurvo callis clavellatis marginato, 

 disco inter lobos laterales callis globosis sessilibus v. stipitatis bi-multi- 

 seriatis ornato, columna alata, anthera rostrata, polliniis late obcordatis 

 bilamellosis. 



C. carnea, R. Br. Prodr. p. 324. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid, p. 417. JEndl 

 Iconngr. t. 57. Hook.f. Fl. Tasman. vol. ii. p. 29, t. 124 A. Beichb.f. 

 Beitr. Orch. p. 28. Bentli. Fl. Austral, vol. vi. p. 386. Fitzgerald 

 Austral. Orchid, vol. i. Synops. p. 1. Ic. Caladen. t. 4. 



C. alata, B. Br, I. c. Lindl. 1. c. 418. Hook.f. 1. c. p. 30, t. 125 A. Reichb f. 

 I. c. 29. 



0. angustata, Hook.f. I. c. t. 125 B. 



PArethusa catenata, Sm. Fxot. Bot. vol. ii. p. 29, t. 104. 



Yar. alba; sepalo dorsali columnaque virescentibus, sepalis lateralibus 

 petali=que albis roseo viridique irroratis. C. alba, Br. I. c. p. 323. Fitz- 

 gerald, I. c. 



Caladenia carnea is a widely distributed species in 

 Australia from Rockhampton, under the tropic of Capri- 

 corn, to the southern shores of Tasmania, and westward to 

 St. Vincent Gulf in South Australia, varying a great deal 

 in hairiness, and in the size and colour of the flowers, 

 in the number of the calli on the disk of the lip, and 

 in the breadth of the wings of the column. Bentham 

 recognized three varieties ; a typical one with pink sepals 

 and petals, transverse bars of rose colour on the lip and 

 column, and two rows of calli on the lip ; a var. alba, with 

 white flowers, and a var. quadriseriaia, with pink flowers 

 and four rows of calli on the lip. In Tasmania, where I 

 collected it in 1841, I recognized three forms, regarded 

 by myself and by Mr. Archer, whose beautiful drawings 

 are reproduced in the " Flora of Tasmania," as species, 



December 1st, 1898. 



