Tas. 5089. 
FIELDIA avstRALIs. 
Australian Fieldia. 
Nat. Ord. CyrtaNDRACEZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, persistens, Jobis lanceolato-linearibus, bractea 
spathacea ovata acuta bifida lateraliter stipatus. Corolla tubuloso-ventricosa; limbo 
quinquefido, zquali, subbilabiato. Stamina 4, fertilia, vix didynama, cum quinto 
sterili dimidio breviore. Anthere globoso-didyname, biloculares, loculis parallelis. 
Stigma bilamellatum. Bacea spongiosa, subcarnosa, ovata, 1-locularis,. loculis 
parallelis. Placente dus, carnose, in laminas recurvas lateraliter productee. 
Semina plurima, parva, nidulantia, ovato-oblonga, aptera.—Suffrutex radicans, 
pseudo-parasiticus, ramosus, yamulis ferrugineo-velutinis. Folia opposita, valde 
cujusque jugi inequalia, remota, breviter petiolata, basi cuneata, superne cuneato- 
serrata.  Pedicelli awillares, uniflori. Flores nutantes, ex albo subvirescentes. 
De Cand. 
Frevpra australis. 
Freipta australis. 402. Cunn. in Field’s Mem. of N. 8. Wales, p. 364 (with a. 
figure). Hook. Exot. Flora, p. 232. t. 232. De Cand. Prod. v. 9. p. 286. , 
Basyinoruyta Frederici-Augusti. F. Muell. 1st Rep. on the Bot. of Victoria, 
p- 16. 
This little-known and singular plant is a native of the Blue 
Mountains of New South Wales, where it was first detected by 
Mr. Caley, in 1804, and afterwards by Mr. Allan Cunningham, 
who dedicated it to his excellent friend the late Barron Field, 
Esq., Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. It was_ 
to the same gentleman that Gaudichaud afterwards, namely in 
1826, dedicated another plant, one of the Orchidee.* Our plant 
has also been gathered at Gipps’s Land_ by Dr. F. Mueller, at — 
Shoal Haven, New South Wales, by Mr. Backhouse, and at 
Fives’ Island, by Mr. Bynoe. We were so fortunate, n 1857, 
as to receive living plants from Mr. Moore of the Sydney 
Botanical Garden, which flowered copiously 10 the greenhouse 
in September, 1858. Its habit is peculiar for a cba it i" 
plant, and it has perhaps as strong @ claim to rank with the 
* Vandalissochiloides, Lindl. 
DECEMBER Ist, 1858. 
