t ats RETENIR ER 
nl ML MEC lr didus 
EA LE dicus 
| On s cures Sepals pe points," “Labellam i broader than 
Drakea) —— .CXX. ORCHIDER. 369 
the stigma erect and sometimes nearly as long as the anther.—Endl. in 
Pi. ine ii. 10. 
W. ralia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. ; Cape Leschenault, Oldfield ; 
King George's Sound, £F. Mueller, Muir ; known under the name of Hammer Orchis. 
39. ACA, R. Br. 
o 
the petals, sessile or Me 80, salda the margin entire, the disk 
smooth or pee ose, with or without 2 a nate calli or tubercles at the 
base. Column erect or es semiterete or 2-winged. Anther 
broad, erect, 9-celled, with broad outer valves, the connective some- 
mes produced into a sho int; pollen granular, but less so than in 
Besides the Australian 5s s whi ni are gern mic, there is one from New Zealand. 
The ge enus ig otv allied to Caladenia, but without the calli and fringes to the labellum 
of "ha genus, a different olii and the pollen in two at least of its species appear to 
be of the m solid consistence of that of hilus. 
Pem m Muret Sepals with fine points. Labellum oblong- 
a ate. 
Flowers rt ith a filiform point of T PRI 
ipli o À Dorsal sepal De with a z VOR | 
"duda 3 to 10; Dor áal sepal with i oint ander 9 
Dorsal ques ovate-lanceolate. Labellum with 2 deco lines 
on the surface 2. A. fornicatus. 
eve shpal lanceolate, ‘contracted at the base. Labellum 
mooth on the surface 8. A. exsertus, 
4. A, viridis. 
* A. caudatus, R. Br. Prod. 991. Stems slender, sometimes fili- 
rarely above ] in. long. Flowers 1 to 3, of a dark colour, on sho 
E pedicels within small bracts, Dorsal sepal tapering into a filiform point 
aj —Lin 
. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 397 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 25, t. 119; Reichb. f 
itr. 26. 
varyi ng from 4 to ae : in. long, not very broad in the lower part, 
ig contracted Again the base; lateral Xp shorter, filiform, 
Pparently more granular than in the two following species. 
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