316 CXX. ORCHIDEJX. [ Calochilus. 
base by a transverse raised plate across the base of the labellum, of 
which T see no trace in the two other species. Anther shortly and ob- 
tusely rostrate. 
Victoria. Heaths on Glenelg river, Robertson; Mount M'Ivor, Herb. F. Mueller ; 
Bendigo, Oldfield; and probably a specimen from Dandenong, F. Mueller, with the 
flower too far advanced for examination. 
3. C. paludosus, R. Br. Prod. 320. Usually more slender than 
C. campestris, with a long leaf and only 2 or 3 rarely 4 flowers, often 
long; petals not half so long, strongly veined. Labellum covered wit 
the long fringes or cilia, shorter and much crowded towards the base, 
sho i 
neither acuminate not rostrate.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 459; Endl. 
Iconogr. t. 14; Reichb. f. Beitr. 22. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, A. Brown, Woolls; Hunter’s river, R. Brown; 
Blue Mountains, Miss Atkinson. 
28. THELYMITRA, Forst. 
rather short, very broadly winged, the wings either reaching to 
the base of the anther with an erect usually thick entire lateral lobe 
or appendage on each side of it, or dilated at the end and united 
where they are united and sometimes are produced into a short tooth 
nective produced into a broad appendage sometimes elongated and 
entire or pruy bifid; pollen-masses granular, withou 
very small caudi 
One of the Australian species extends over New Zealand, New Caledonia, and the 
to New 
land; the genus is otherwise endemic in Australia. It is remarkable for the labellum 
perfectly resembling and taking its place as one of the petals, and quite detached from 
the column, from which it is separated by the annular base of the wing. 
