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of labellum peltate and versatile, on a rather wide watch- 

 spring claw which is articulated to the end of the columnar- 

 foot; reddish-brown to deep purple in colour; divided by the 

 insertion of the claw into a short wide lobe with two 

 hemispherical protruberances on its upper-surface, and a much 

 longer truncate conical lobe covered with purple glandular 

 excrescences on its upper-surface ; under-surface yellowish, 

 concave ; margins of the longer lobe involute and covered with 

 reddish-brown glands. Column yellowish-green, about the 

 same length as sepals and petals, base extended into a 

 horizontal "foot" about 4 mm. long; wings extremely wide 

 and dilated, adnate to the "foot," forming a boat-shaped sac. 

 Anther quite small. Stigma reniform, just below the anther. 



Found growing in sandy soil along with Drakaea 

 glyptodon, Fitz. Drummond states: "This plant is rare, and 

 where it grows it is not easily found, its whole appearance 

 being that of charcoal, among which it usually springs up."" 

 (Swan River Appendix, liv.) The Ravenswood specimens did 

 not resemble charcoal, neither did they grow on burnt ground. 



Drakaea. 

 D. ciliata, Reich, f. 



Western Australia: near York, O. H. Sargent,. 

 November, 1905. 



Mr. Sargent notes in regard to this orchid : "Sandy soil, 

 soaking-wet in winter, and very dry in summer; the leaf is 

 thick, fleshy, and scarcely complicate when living; it folds 

 together as it withers and dies, when flowering commences in 

 November." 



D. elastica, Lindl. 



Western Australia: York, O. H. Sargent, September^ 

 1907; Gosnells, Mrs. W. E. Cooke, 28/9/06; Tukurua 

 (Albany district). Miss Bryce Maclntyre, 21/10/11 : Diamond 

 Tree School, near Jarnadup, Miss I. Knox-Peden ; River 

 Murray, Ravenswood, Rogers, 1/10/19. 



Grows in sandy soil. 



D. glyptodon, Fitz. 



Western Australia: Gosnells, Mrs. W. E. Cooke,. 

 28/9/08; Diamond Tree School, near Jarnadup, Miss I. 

 Knox-Peden; Mount Melville, Albany, on the sandy bank of 

 creek, Rogers, 20/9/19; Ravenswood and Pinjarra, growing 

 plentifully in sandy soil, Rogers, 30/9/19. 



