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Calochilus. | CXX. ORCHIDER. 315 
terminal raceme, ate or yellowish, with more or less of purple espe- 
cially the labellum 
The genus is limited to Australia. In the column it is nearly allied to Thelymitras 
but differs widely in the M nth. 
we dente Column-wing quite open in front, with a Pu 
side within ira anterior angles or lobes . 1. C. campestris. 
Aster Mir rostrate. Column-wing aal y with a ‘gland on 
y side as in C. campestris, and open in fro t, but connected E 
y à transverse raised line across the base je i = ellum . . 2. C. Robertsoni. 
Andi very obtuse, Column-wing without any gland, o open in 
ront. Labellum with 2 short MP pa inramarginal e erect 
es or auricles near the base . . : ; 3. C. paludosus. 
F. Mueller r to sy nak : ph? wis S pei 
the name of Ls "Rugs j a 
C. campestris, R. Br. Prod. 820. Stem usually rather stout, 
ie: under 1 ft. to in o 14 ft. high, with = rather long leaf and 3 to 
flowers, but sometimes with the Tmbit o C. paludosus. Sepals in iie 
typical form 4 to 5 lines long, the petals much shorter. Labellum } in. 
or more, obovate or “obovate-o oblong, the margins and surface 
covered with long purple fringes except near t where (i 
ame typical form) there is a raised plate or thickened :surface quite 
smooth and extending more or less along the centre of the ow part 
of the labellum, and the end is produced into a linear or lane 
smooth often flexuose point varying muc olumn-win 
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rostrate upwards.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 459; Bot. Mag. t. 3187 
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 15, t. 106 A; Reichb. f. Beitr. 21; C. herbaceus 
Lindl. l.c. : 
Capea Shoalwater bay, R. Brown (belonging probably to the var. grandi- 
a). 
.N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown n, Woolls. TS 
atthe tay a ky Ca s Woo Inorth, Lira — Sorell, Archer; Huon river, 
odia wey vend Mi igan; ; Southport, C. Stua 
iflora. Flowers 1 to 3, aedi = nin nde common form, and altogether 
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2. C. Robertsoni, Benth. A stout species, with the habit of the 
arger specimens of C. a but the leaf usually.broader. Sepals 
acuminate, fully }in. long in the specimens seen; petals also acuminate, 
more than half as peas abellum fringed all over, the terminal smooth 
point short. Column-wings with a more or less distinct gland on quem 
side in front as in C. campestris, but the i wings connected at the 
