14 F. M. Bailey. 



straight, stigma clavate. Fruit ovate, about 1 in. long, 7 lines broad in 

 centre, exocarpe velvety outside, grey, bursting down one side and ex- 

 posing the endocarp or nut. Nut about 8 lines long and 6 lines broad, 

 tapering to a point at the top in some specimens, when the nut becomes 

 top-shaped. — The fruit, or rather the nuts, have been known to me for 

 many years, but until now no other parts have I seen. The first shown 

 to me were by the late Mr. A. J. Hockings about 36 years ago, and he 

 tried at the time to obtain botanical specimens of the plant, but failed. 

 His nuts were from the Pine River. — Queensland, Eumundi, Mr. 

 Ball. 



23. Pterostylis Whitei Bail., 1. c, p. 11. — Radical leaves about 

 4 lines long, ovate-rotundate, slightly pointed, 3 or 4 forming a rosette, 

 a little raised above the ground on the stem; below this are 3 loose 

 sheathing scarious, truncate scales. Some little distance from the above 

 arises the flowering scape, which is very slender, and attains the height 

 of 5^8 m . at the immediate base; it is somwhat bulbosely enlarged. 

 The leaves or bracts 3 or 4 near the middle, narrow-lanceolate, spreading, 

 4 to 5 lines long. Flowers 3, distant from the leaves and each other. 

 Bracts loose lanceolate, membranous, brownish, about 6 lines long, en- 

 closing the pedicel and part of the flower, pedicel very slender, segments 

 of flower all narrow, and tapering into longish filiform points, prominently 

 striped with red, lateral sepals rather shorter than the other segments; 

 labellum brown and rather short. — Queensland, Glasshouse Mountains, 

 C.T.White. 



24. Xerotes confertifolia Bail., 1. c, p. 11. — Stems numerous, arising 

 from an elongated rhizome, the first 1 or 2 in. emitting wiry roots, then 

 more slender, x / i in. thick for about 6 in. or more, from thence branched 

 and rebranched, the branches becoming still more slender; all from base 

 of stem clothed with thin narrow flexuose leaves split or forked at the 

 apex, 5 to 8 in. long, 1 / 2 to 1 line broad, the scarious stem-clasping base 

 very open, about 1 in. long. Inflorescence 8*/j in. long, spikelike, the 

 peduncle flat, 1 / 2 line broad, rhachis rather thicker and not quite so broad. 

 Male flowers in distant clusters 5 to 10 along the rhachis; the clusters 

 bearing fine pungent bracts, bracteoles scarious with short pungent points, 

 about one-third of the length of the perianth; perianth-segments of a 

 thicker texture than the bracts, about 1 line long, the outer ones some- 

 what longer and of a dark-purple with narrow white streaks. Stamens 

 about half as long as the perianth. Female flowers and seed not ob- 

 tained. — Queensland, Glasshouse Mountains, Bail.; Mount Cooioy, 

 Bail, and Simmonds; Mount Perry, Jas. Keys. 



25. Atriplex semibaccata R. Br., forma tenuis Bail., 1. c, p. 164. — 

 Plant hoary, slender, nearly erect. Leaves entire. Fruit smaller than in 

 the common form. — Queensland, Windorah, Walter H. Rose. 



26. Pdypogon monspdiensis Desf. var. Rosei Bail., 1. c, p. 165. — 

 A densely tufted slender grass, about 6 in. high, shortly geniculate at 

 the base, leafy throughout, nodes black or brown. Leaves narrow — li- 



