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inner sides, where they are light coloured ; sometimes quite 

 white; lateral sepals and lateral petals spreading, about equal 

 in length, 5 lines, falcate-lanceolate, contracted at base ; dorsal 

 sepal a trifle shorter, much incurved. 



Labellum on a moveable claw, with basal portion erect 

 against column ; tip triangular recurved ; lateral lobes not well 

 denned, sometimes almost absent ; margins entire except 

 towards the tip, the edges of which are shortly, bluntly, and 

 rather sparsely denticulated ; calli of lamina in 4 rows, reaching 

 to within a short distance of the tip, where the rows are not 

 so well defined, clavate, the stalks shorter towards the tip; 

 two or three pink stripes near base. 



Column shorter than dorsal sepal, beneath which it is 

 incurved, markedly winged, especially in its upper half ; 

 anther with a short point; stigma circular just below anther. 



The buds are characteristic, being bluntly falcate in shape, 

 with dark glandular exteriors. 



This Caladenia has not hitherto appeared on the records of 

 this State, although there are specimens in the University 

 Herbarium, collected in November at Glencoe and Millicent 

 Flats. Notes in the folder by the late Professor Tate indicate 

 that he thought of calling it C. quadraserriata , but finally 

 left it unidentified and undescribedi. 



It has been recorded from all the Eastern States except 

 Queensland. 



The following are some localities in which it has been 

 found : — New South Wales — Port Jackson to Blue Mountains, 

 R. Brown, A. Cunningham, Woolls, and others ; Mount 

 Penang, Rogers. Victoria — Port Phillip, Gunn ; Upper Fern 

 Tree Gully, Pescott; Cravensville, Braine; Grampians, 

 Pescott, French, jun., and Audas. Tasmania — Port Dal- 

 rymple, R. Brown ; Southport, C. Stuart; Hobart and Circular 

 Head, R. C. Gunn; Gould Country and St. Patrick River, A. 

 Simson ; Sandford, Miss A. L. Rogers. South Australia — 

 Glencoe and Millicent Flats, R. Tate. 



It blooms in October and November. Its relations to the 

 other Caladenias will be shown below when dealing with C. 

 congesta. 



5. Caladenia congesta, Br. 



Plant slender, from 7 to 24 inches high ; leaf linear : stem 

 slightly hairy, with a closely-appressed rather acute bract 

 about the middle. 



Flowers pink, rarely white, single or in a scattered raceme 

 of 2 or 3, on slender pedicels, subtended by a bract often 

 reaching as high as the hairy ovary. 



Segments of perianth covered with glandular hairs ; 

 lateral sepals spreading, lanceolate, contracted at base, about 



