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Labelhim, with dark-purplish or reddish-brown blotchings, 

 especially on its under-surface. 



Lateral appendages of column subulate, reaching rather 

 higher than the anther tip. Stigmatic surface extensive and 

 somewhat heart-shaped, with rosfcellum placed high up in 

 front of and below the anther. « 



The leaves of this species are relatively longer and wider 

 than in D. setae ea; the lateral lobes of the labellum are not 

 so wide, and the clefting does not extend nearly so deeply ; 

 the middle lobe is not so markedly stalked ; the two raised 

 lines are much more widely separated : and the lateral ap- 

 pendages of the column are relatively longer. In other re- 

 spects, the two species closely approach each other. 



Caladenia gladiolata, ^p. nov. PI. xxvi. 



A somewhat stunted hirsute species, varying from 3-7 

 inches high, found at Hornsdale, near Appila-Yarrowie, Sep- 

 tember 10, 1907, in poor soil. 



Leaf. — Hairy, varying in shape and size from ovate- 

 lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate. 



Bracts. — Two, one subtending the flower. 



Flower. — Usually solitary, rarely two; greenish-yellow 

 with red markings ; varies in diameter according to size of 

 plant. 



Pe^«/s.— Linear-lanceolate, rather shorter than sepals; 

 yellowish-green, with red stripe down centre. 



Seyals of about equal length and appearance ; lateral 

 ones flattened throughout, constricted about one-third from 

 distal end, the distal third being fluted, reddish-brown in 

 colour, glandular- and bayonet-shaped (from which character 

 the species has been named) ; reddish vein running down 

 centre of dilated proximal two-thirds. Dorsal sepal incurved, 

 with rather clavate point. 



Labellum on a movable hinge, ovate, recurved at tip. 

 Lateral lobes semicircular, usually entire or slightly dentate 

 anteriorly ; yellowish-green. Middle lobe, reddish-brown, 

 crenulate. No sign of veining on labellum. Calli large piri- 

 form, dark reddish-brown, in 4 crowded somewhat irregular 

 rows, occupying posterior two-thirds of middle lobe. 



Column widely winged in its upper part, wings taper- 

 ing off towards the base, much incurved. Anther shortly 

 pointed, horizontal. Two oval glands at base of column. 

 Stigmatic surface just below the anther. 



This Caladenia is a near ally of C. cl a rig era and C. 

 teanelata, Fitz., both eastern species. From the former it 

 differs in the absence of clavate points to lateral sepals, in 

 the shape and appearance of the calli, in the wide winging 



