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5. Stem, slender, leafy. Lateral sepals attached 

 to column. Lip with crests on its face. 

 Stems very short, leafy. Lip concave, middle 

 lobe solid. 

 B. Plants with 1 or more leaves. 



Plants leafless. Flowers numerous, brown. 



7. Leaf solitary (-2 in Caladenia bifolia). 

 Leaves 2 or more. 



8. Leaf solitary, broad, membranous. 



Leaf solitary, slender, flat or terete ('2 broad 

 in Caladenia bifolia). 



9. Flower 1. 

 Flowers few. 



10. Flower sessile, purple, large. Sepals long, 



filiform. 

 Flower with a long stalk. Sepals broad, 

 upper concave. 



11. Sepals and i)etals acuminate or awned. 

 Sepals and petals linear, obtuse. 



12. Leaf tubular. Flowers many, minute, lip 



below. 

 Leaf rounded, linear or flat, but not tubular. 



13. Flowers many, minute, with lip uppermost. 

 Flowers few, pink, blue or yellow. 



14. Leaf flat. Flowers 1-4, pink. Lip glandular. 

 Leaf, rounded, thick. Flowers 1 or more, 



yellowish or blue. Lip, sepals, and 

 petals all similar. 



15. Flowers solitary. 

 Flowers more than one. 



16. Flower large, green, helmeted. Lip narrow. 

 Upper sepal arched. Lip with large purple 



gland. 



17. Flowers numerous. Upper sepal oblong. 

 Flowers several. Upper sepal helmeted. 



18. Lip with 5 ridges. 

 Lip 3-lobed. 



*Not further described. 



Dendrobium, p. 124. 



*Sarcochilus. 

 7 

 Gastrodia, p. 124. 

 8 

 15 



12 

 10 

 11 



Corysanthes. )). 125 



*Adenochilus. 

 Acianthus, p. 124. 

 Cyrtostylis, p. 125. 



Microtis, p. 125. 



13 

 *Prasophyllum. 



14 

 Caladenia, p. 125. 



Thelymitra, p. 12(5. 



16 

 Pterostylis, p. 126. 



*Chiloglottis. 

 *Spiranthes. 

 18 

 *Lyperanthus. 

 Orthoceras, p. 127. 



Genus Earina. 



Epiphytic herbs. Leaves, narrow, leathery, numerous. Flowers in terminal 

 spikes, white, lip touched with yellow. Sepals and petals almost equal in 

 shape; lip 3-lobed. Pollen masses 4. Fruit a capsule. (Name from the 

 Greek signifying SiJring-floioering ) . 



Earina mucronata (The Sharp-pointed Earina). 



Leaves strap-shaped, 4in.-6in. long, ^in. broad, marked with whitish 

 longitudinal lines. Flowers in slender panicles, white, jin. broad, lips spotted. 

 Fragrant. Root fibrous, fleshy. Both islands. Fl. Oct. -Dec. 2 sp. 



Earina suaveolens {The Fragra^it Earina). 



Leaves linear, alternate, 2in.-3in. long, Jin. broad, rigid. Flowers in 

 short, stiff racemes, larger than in mucronata. Sepals oblong. Petals ovate. 

 Lip broad, 3-lobed, with two orange spots. Peduncle twisted, spotted with 

 black dots, as are the backs of the sepals. Both islands. Fl. April-June. 



