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that of W. tinctoria, which is hovvever at once distinguished by frequent 

 waiit of vestiture, by a white eorolla with much narrower and longer 

 lobes, also by a proportionately sliorter tube. 



This species of a medicinal genus of plants is offered from here as a 

 tioral homage to the clinical Professor Baecelli, in cominemoration of the 

 leading part taken by this great pnthologist in the recent International 

 Medical Congress of Berlin, and further for also phytologic felicitation 

 in Ins so worthily being called to the high presidental office of the 

 forthcoming universal gathering in Korne. 

 Calochilus Holtzei. 



Rather tall; basal leaf elongated, stem-leaves usually three very much 

 shorteued or bract-like ; racenie long, with numerous flowers ; pedicels 

 soon somewhat longer tlian the bracts ; lower calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolar, 

 the upper one usually bioader, verging into a deltoid-rouudish forin; 

 lateral petals obliquely lauceolar-elliptical, fully as long as the calyx-lobes 

 and with these lightly greenish-brovvn ; labellar petal doubly as long as 

 the others, rhomboid-ovate, uudivided, greenish, above densely beset and 

 also ciliolar-friDged with reddish hair-like papillules, bnt glabrous at the 

 deltoid apex, bearing near the middle of the base two straiglit vertical 

 dark-bluish plates with prominent dark strioles between them, but devoid 

 there of glandules and of any protruding cross-line ; gynostemium by 

 about one-third shorter than the calyx-lobes ; anther somewhat contracted 

 upwards ; rostellum semiovate, conspicuous ; fruit ellipsoid. 

 Near Port Darwin ; M. Holtze. 



Height, to 3 feet. Tuber nearly IV2 inches long. Basal leaf 4 — 10 

 inches long, ! / 4 — 1 / 3 uicn broad. Flowers to 20 in the racenie. Pedicels 

 '/a — 1 jt inch long, or at last even longer. Bracts ovate-lanceolar, 

 acuminate, incurved. Calyx-lobes about 1 / 4 -i nc h long. Labellum glabrous 

 at the base. Ripe fruit measuring fully l / s inch in lengtb, slightly broader 

 towards the summit. The first represeutative of the genus from intra- 

 tropical regious. It comes nearest to C. paludosus, but it is a larger 

 plant, has a raceme from 1 to l 1 / 2 feet long and a deltoid termination 

 of the labellum, irrespective of the longer pedicels and of the petals 

 equalling in length the calyx-lobes, in which respect this new congeuer 

 differs also from C. campester and C. Robertsonil. Nevertheless, the 

 specific limits of these plants have yet further to be traced by field-studies. 

 C. Robertsonii extends to the Snowy River (John Cameron), the sources 

 of the Werribee (Miss Champ), Maclaren's Vale (Miss Aldersey), Mt. Lofty 

 (Tepper). C, campester occurs also at Port Arthur (Hon. Dr. Dobson), 

 and the Freeman River. C. paludosus advances southward to Ulladulla 

 (Baeuerlen). Mr. Holtze's last sending afforded also an opportunity of 

 ascertaining the characteristics of the pollinia in what was lately described 

 as Eulophia Holtzei; thus it becomes now clear, that this plant requires 

 to be transferred to the section Apaturia of Pachystoma, the genus being 

 new for Australia. The base of the gynostemium protrudes distinctly 

 across the summit of the ovulary, and for this reason also the plant is 

 better brought under that genus than under Spathoglottis. The short 

 rather thin and almost horizontal rhizome, further the less spreading 

 calyx-lobes and petals, the form of the labellum, as also the much reflected 

 fruit-pedicels, agree all best with Pachystoma — indeed, our plant is in 

 many respects not unlike P. pubescens. 

 February, 1892. 



Mueller, Baron V., New Papuan plants. [Contin.] (Journal of Botany. No. 349. p. 17.) 



Mnrray, R. P., A new British Rubus. (1. c. p. 15 — 16.) 



Pirotta, R., 11 nuovo gruppo delle Calazogame die Treub. (Bullettino della 

 SocietA Botanica Italiana. 1892. No. 4. p. 224—228.) 



Preston, T. A., Additions to the Wilts flora. 1891. (Journal of Botany. Vol. 

 XXX. 1892. No. 352. p. 105 — 106.) 



Rogers, TV. Moyle, An essay at a key to British Rubi. (1. c. p. 108—114.) 



SalniOU, Kniest S., Carex paniculata in W. Kent. (1. c. No. 349. p. 25.) 

 Stewart, S. A., Lowest limit of Vuccinium Vitis-idaea in Ireland. (1. c. 

 No. 352. p. 121.) 



