Caladenia.| CXX. ORCHIDEX, —— 389 
W. Australia. Point Henry, F. Mueller; Lake Muir, Muir; Swan river, 
_ Drummond, 1st coll., Preiss, n. 2191. ` À 
| Var. albiflora, Flower white, with the lateral lobes of the labellum rather more 
] prominent.—S. Australia, F. Mueller. 
. 25. C. sericea, Lindl. Sw. Riv. App. 52, and Gen. and Sp. Orch. 418. 
Usually softly villous, the hairs especially on the leaves shorter more 
at least half as long as the sepals, contracted at the base, cuneate up- 
wards, nearly equally 3-lobed at the end, the lateral lobes erect, shortly 
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b, the lowest ones sometimes united in linear or oblong plates. 
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll, also n. 119; King George's 
Sound, Muir; Upper Hay river, Miss Warburton, 
Secr, 5. PexTISTA.—Sepals and petals nearly equal, all obtuse and 
spreading. Labellum and column very short. Calli of the disk small 
and numerous, in longitudinal rows. 
As observed by Reichenbach fil., this section in its perianth connects Caladenia with 
Glossodia, but the calli of the labellum are entirely those of the former, without the 
remarkable basal appendages of the latter genus, 
26. C. gemmata, Lindi. Sw. Riv. App. 52, and Gen. and Sp. Orch. 420. 
Loosely hairy and 6 to 8 in. high when 1-flowered, rather taller when 
2-flowered. ‘Leaf ovate or ovate-lanceolate, rarely above 1 in. long. 
Flower rather large, of a soft deep blue. Sepals and ges broa y 
and 
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. With a prominent point.—Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 8; C. pellita, Endl. l.c. 
— (Reichd. f). | 
. _ W. Australia. King George's Sonnd to Swan river, Drummond, Oldfield, F. 
Mueller, and others, Preiss, m. 2193 (mixed with Glossodia Brunonis, according to 
Reichenbach f.) aswell. 
27. C. ixioides, Lindl. Sw. Riv. App. 52, and Gen. and Sp. Orch. 420. 
Closely resembles O. gemmata in habit stature and size and general 
structure of the flower, and possibly a variety only, but the flowers 
(from the dried specimens) appear to have been yellow, the labellum is 
. Not so broad, more acuminate and sometimes obscurely 3-lobed, and the 
calli of its surface are more prominent, almost lin 
. W, Australia, Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. 
