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of which the limits are not very easily defined, but which extends 

 from New South Wales to Japan in one direction, and from the 

 Feejee Islands to Southern India in the other. Amon^ the stations 



Calanthe veratrifolia. 



within this region in which it has been detected, Illawarra 

 (N. S. Wales),* Rockingham Bay and Moreton Bay in Queensland, 

 Amboyua, Java, Cochin China, Ceylon, and the Neilgherry Hills have 



In New South Wales it is usually found near the l)anks of streams growing,' in decayed 

 ve};eta1)le matter of so loose a texture that the plants may be iniUed from the soil without 

 digfring. -Gard. Chron. XX. (1883), p. 722. 



