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Kingscote, Rocky River, vicinity of Cape de 

 Couedic, Sou'-West River, Harriet River. 

 Blooms September. 

 R, T. 40. C. deformis (R. Br.) — This probably shares the 

 place of honour with Diuris longifolia in being 

 the most common orchid on the Island, some 

 parts being literally converted into blue carpets 

 in September, when it is at its best. It became 

 scarcer as we skirted the Western Coast, but is 

 represented everywhere. 

 41. C. ovata (sp. nov.). PI. i., figs. 1 to 5 — I first 

 collected this orchid two years ago, but hesitated 

 to name it on account of a superficial resemblance 

 which it bears to C. leptochUa (Fitz.). The 

 labellum, however, is so entirely distinct and 

 characteristic in the two forms that it seems to 

 me the time has come for separating them. G. 

 leptochila does not seem to occur on the Island. 

 I have not seen the new species on the North 

 Coast, but have found it in considerable num- 

 bers on the South Coast about Wilson River 

 and the Eleanor. I have never met it on the 

 mainland. It blooms in SejDtember and October. 

 Description. — A slender species from 4 to 9 in. 

 in height. Leaf from 1-2|- in., hairy, narrow- 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate. Stem slightly 

 hairy with narrow lanceolate bract about the 

 middle, and another subtending the flower. 

 Flowers usually solitary, rarely two, very rarely 

 three, reddish-yellow. Lateral sepals about 1 

 in., clavate, proximal half dilated, caudse short 

 and fine. Dorsal sepal about f in., erect or 

 slightly incurved over column, clavate, narrow- 

 lanceolate. Lateral petals lanceolate, not 

 clubbed, rather shorter and wider than dorsal 

 sepal. Labellum ovate on a short claw, reddish- 

 yellow, with dark-red tip, moderately recurved, 

 with dark, divergent lines ; margin entire. Calli 

 very inconstant, as frequently in two as in four 

 rows, sometimes represented by a few minute 

 irregularly-placed bossings, occasionally entirely 

 absent ; generally small mammillary, except for 

 a few short clavate ones near hinge, rarely ex- 

 tending much beyond the middle of labellum. 

 Column less than ^ in., rather incurved, more 

 winged in its upper than lower half; two promi- 

 nent yellow basal glands. Anther point distinct 



