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F.M.Bailey: Contributions of the Flora of Queensland. 



XXVI. Species novae ex: F. M. Bailey, Contributions 

 of the Flora of Queensland and British New Guinea. IX 



(Ex: The Queensland Agric. Journ., XXVII, 1911.) 



48. 



•gustifolia var, Honoriae Bail, 1. c., p. 68. 



This 



variety differs only from the normal form in having its leaves margined 

 with white. The cuttings now growing in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens 

 were brought from Stephens Island by E. W. Bick. 



49. Eragrostis Brownii var. pubescens Bail,, 1. c, p. 70, pi. XX. 

 Stems procumbent, very slender and long; the leaf sheath and blade, 

 rhachis, and rhachilla clothed with scattered spreading hairs, most 

 numerous at the orifice of leaf sheath. Leaf blade narrow, 2 to 7 in. 

 long, more or less flat, about 2 lines broad. The panicles in form 

 somewhat resemble those of E. speciosa, attaining a length of 2 ft., 

 bearing as many as 14 branches, which vary from 1 to SVa ^^' 1^"S» 



bearing 6 to 14 spikelets about 6 lines long, 



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8 to 12 flowers in each row; the margins of glumes scarious and tinted 

 like most allied plants. — Queensland: Cairns, P. M. B., 1897. Badu 

 Island, Torres Strait, E. W. Bick. 



50. Dendrohium undulaium var. Carterae Bail., 1. c, p. 306, pi. XXI. 

 This unique yellow variety was found by Mrs. T. W. Carter when 



living some few years ago on Pine Islet, Percy Islands, and the plant 

 was sent to her brother, Mr. H. Barwick, of Paddington, Brisbane, in 

 whose bushhouse it has flowered for the past two years, and he has 

 now presented the plant to the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, where it 

 will have more room to develop. — The plant in no wise differs from 

 the normal form except in the inflorescence. The racemes with pe- 

 duncles are about 10 in. long and erect, and so far as known do not 

 have that tendency to droop of the other forms. Flowers are a canary- 

 yellow and when fully expanded slightly exceed P/a inch. The segments 

 are wavy but only sligthly twisted. Labellum all yellow except the 

 disk-plates, which are prominent and usually white. 



51. Polypodium rigidulum Sw. var. Whitei Bail., 1. c, p. 306, pi. XXII. 

 This very distinct and beautiful variety has somewhat the appea- 

 rance of P. rigidulum var. Vidgeni Bail., but the fronds have much 

 broader and more deeply divided leaflets. The characteristics of the 

 plant will readily be seen from the photograph and drawing, reproduced 

 herewith, taken from plants cultivated in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens 

 Collected at Glasshouse Mountains by C. T. Wl 

 Club, Excur., May, 1910.) 



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