i Chiloglottis. | CXX. ORCHIDEZ. 391 
of it and descend along the claw, the thick ones are usually few and the 1 or 2 in 3 
reflexed ones are often = prominent ; sometimes also there are a pair of small ones 
near the base of the claw: 
2. C. Gunnii, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 387. Often a smaller plant 
than C. diphylla, but not so slender. Leaves rather larger and broader, 
sometimes nearly 2in. long. Scape usually short, but in some 
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ani ed Circular Head, Cheshunt, Hobarton, Gunn, 
Ar cem ied idi Mentem Ln ' C. Stuart; summit of Ben Lomond, at an elevation' 
of 5000 ft., Milligan 
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Sp 
46. GLOSSODIA, R. Br. 
i» and petals nearly equal, quim Labellum sessile, undi- 
26 not fringed, without calli or plates on the disk, but, at its base, 
metimes nite into 1) linear clavi: calli or appendages ere 
eun the column and from half to nearly its whole length. Column 
erect, often incurved, 2-winged. Anther erect, 2-celled, = outer 
small point. Pollen-masses granular.— Terrestrial herbs usually hairy, 
iim small underground tu bers. Leaf solitary, oblong or lanceolate, 
within a scarious sheath close to the ground ; flowerslto 2 on an 
iin scape, leafless except an empty sheathing bract at or below the 
"ép and a similar bract under each pedicel. Flowers erect, blue or 
he genus is limited to Australia. It is closely allied to the section Pentisia 
Caladenia, but the peculiar position and form of the calli, constant in all the species 
and probably performing some special function in the fertilizing S eiue oe justify its 
tan as a soo us, rather than merging it into nia, as pro vomit: by Reichen- 
2. 
Secr. 1. i bescent base. Column- 
wing not at Pr or pen em virus pire ate base e the anthers. Eastern 
Sepals and petals 7 to 10 lines i Labellum- d l 
"= um-appendage single : 
dilated and 2-dentate at the PUDE major. 
Sepals and petals 4 to 6 um long "Labellun-appendages 2, linear. 3 
clavate, scarcely united bé base . G. minor. 
Bac eutheran VIRUS HU M — a roe C p ex- 
tending Sos the anther d forming a hood over 
Flowers usually 2, dee blue. hoes shorter ha the a 
Dixiclate 6 Büne : E G, Bronis. 
