Caladenia.} CXX. ORCHIDER. oe 
lateral lobes when present d the middle lobe or upper part of the 
einne labellum recurved, t Ari re often fringed e or aT zs 
into a point. Pollen-masses granular.— Terrestrial herbs, usually 
len, with small underground tubers. Leaf solitary, linear-lanceolate 
or oblong, from within a "anm sheathing scale close t und. 
Flowers solitary or very few in a loose raceme, on 
leafless except a small narrow gemi scale or empty wor about 
the middle, and a similar bract under each pedicel, and in one species 
the radical leaf and empty bract are deficient. Flowers sou erect, 
variously coloured. 
Besides the Aust ipe species which are all endemic, there are three from "New 
Zealand, or two onigi r the C. bifolia to Chiloglottis. The ¢ genus is a difficult - 
one, not only as to the ene o of t Sinita to be assigned to species, especially 
from dried specimens, in which the precise e of the labellum tan cen not be ascer- 
pem : : itrary. V ight almost 
equally well does generically some of the fo owing sections, sapeciallf ‘Leptoceras 
nd Pentisia, or with Reichenbach fil. add to them by the in incorporation of Glossodia, 
and some others. 
Secr. 1. Leptoceras.—Sepals acute or rather obtuse, the dorsal one erect or in- 
curved aid concave. ee erect, linear-clavate, longer than the sepals (not exceeding 
them in the other sectio 
depen much longer than the EPE Labellum not — the 
18 2 to 4 row alli 
Petals réther longer Tha the sepals. Lalellum. very broad, 
nged at the end, the disk without calli . 
1. C. Menziesü. 
1:6. NEF 
Secr. 2. Shen hilus.— Sepals eia or Si acuminate, the dorsa 
incurved a meave, erect behind the co or refleced with it. peur ped, 
with deeply veloiiead diverging veins, oa ided o or with @ very 8 and obscure 
n scarcely eic Labellum on a short claw, not 
ged; calli in 2 rows, the lower ones linear-clavate, the : 
3. C. Cairnsiana. 
up Sori 
Sepals shortly ac ninate. — Labellum on a lon ng claw, ‘not 
fringed; calli few long and clavate, the lower re con 4. C. multiclavia. 
Sepals ee all reflexed as well as the oiii. 
Labellum on a short c beer rv short, Ir and : 
Mad crowded . . C. discoidea. 
short points, the dorsal one 
» Onda i in acuminate, with o lp pr 
isk with 2 or more rows 
ie incurved, Labellum inconspicuously veine 
Papal polit usually long. Lateral lobes of the e fringed 
oothed, sometimes passing into t e middle lo i 
afi ow-linear. Calli of the labellum in 2 rows . 6. C. fllamentosa. 
Leaf linear-lanceolate. Calli of ~ label i in 4 to 6 rows - C. Patersoni. 
Sepal-points n sually long. args f the labellum very 
prominent = entire ; calli in es h Prot , 
Leaf narrow-lin Eastern specia. -o n er nne S C. clavigera 
