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C. PECTINATA, n. Sp. 



A robust plant reaching 60 cm. or more in height; stem 

 hairy with one acute bract; leaf narrow-linear, very hairy. 

 Flowers about 6-9 cm. in diameter, yellowish with reddish 

 markings on perianth segments and labellum. Lateral sepals 

 spreading ; dilated in their proximal ends, thereafter 

 contracted into long and rather rigid clavate points, total 

 length about 5 cm., dilated part about 2 cm., greatest breadth 

 about 5 mm. ; a reddish stripe (not very intense) down the 

 middle , of the dilated part, with often a subsidiary one on 

 either side; dilated part almost glabrous, clubs dark and 

 glandular. Dorsal sepal erect or slightly incurved; its^ 

 proximal end dilated and concave, but narrower than in the 

 case of the lateral sepals ; points clavate ; in other respects and 

 measurements similar to the lateral sepals. Lateral petals 

 spreading or reflexed backwards ; narrow lanceolate ; yellowish 

 with red stripe down the centre; points very acuminate, but 

 not clavate; about 3 '5 cm. long and about 4 mm. in the widest 

 part. 



Labellum on a short claw, erect in lower half with 

 recurved tip; yellow in posterior two-thirds with crimson or 

 dark reddish-brown apex; ovate-oblong or broadly ovate- 

 lanceolate; about 2 cm. long (when extended) and 11-12 mm. 

 wide (without fringe) ; lateral lobes indefinite, their margins 

 deeply pectinate with reddish linear or filamentous calli, which 

 are often forked or dentate at their free extremities; middle 

 lobe triangular, or somewhat oblong with blunt tip, recurved, 

 with shortly denticulated margins; calli arranged on the 

 lamina in 4 rows posteriorly increasing to 6 or 8 rows near the 

 tip, light coloured and stalked near the base, crimson and 

 almost sessile anteriorly, their apices often darker than their 

 stalks, mostly of the golf -stick variety, not very fleshy. 



Column about 2 cm. high, much incurved, moderately 

 winged below with wide triangular membranous expansion on 

 each side near the stigma ; two yellow sessile glands on 

 anterior surface near the base. Anther reddish, shortly 

 mucronate. Stigma concave, more or less circular, situated 

 just below the anther, its upper margin projected into a small 

 triangular rudimentary rostellum. No caudicle or gland. 



Western Australia : Albany district, Rogers, September, 

 1919; York district, O. H. Sargent; Cork Swamp, near Perth, 

 Mrs. Tapp, 3/9/07; Swan View, Mrs. W. E. Cooke, 13/9/06. 



This beautiful Galadenia is fairly common and apparently 

 hybridizes freely with C . Patersoni, var. lonr/icauda, giving 

 rise to perplexing intermediate forms. These hybrids 

 generally resemble the new species in colouration and in the 



