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36. DENDROBIUM ? complanatum. 



An epiphyte growing in tufts. It has a flattened base, 

 and cultritbrm distichous leaves : the whole plant, althougli 

 healthy, is of a yellow green colour. On dead trees, in 

 shaded woods, at Moreton Bay. 1828. Flowers not seen. 



37. CYMBIDIUM iridifolium; foliis elongato-linearibus, racemis multifloris 

 bracteatis, perianthii foliolls patentibus (exterioribus tribus elliptlcis obtusis) 

 labello 3-lobato : lobo intermedio linguiformi disco ecarinato glanduloso- 

 punctato nitido. 



On decayed trunks of trees in large masses, damp shaded 

 woods on the Brisbane River. July 1828. This plant was 

 alive at Kew. 



38. CYMBIDIUM ? ; caule radicante scandente, foliis altern is lanceolatis 



acutis subcarnosis, racemis axlllaribus laxis, fol. perianthii conniventibus 

 labello carnoso 3-lobato, basi cavo. 



A Vanda looking plant, in habit very much like V. tereti- 

 folia. Lindl. Coll. hot. t. 6. Can it be Epidendrum triste, 

 Forst. which that Botanist discovered in New Caledonia ? My 

 plant, of which I only detected a single specimen, was hang- 

 ing to the thin laminated bark of the trunk of Callistemon 

 rigidum, in small open savannahs, subject to inundation ; 

 near the banks of the Brisbane River. Sept. 1829. 



39. CALANTHE veratrifolia. R. Br. 



In August 1822, whilst on an excursion to the Illawarra, 

 a coast district on the south of Port Jackson, I met with a 

 plant in dark shaded woods, which I introduced to Kew, in 

 the following year, considering it a Bletia. It soon after- 

 wards flowered in that collection, and was then ascertained 

 to differ in no one respect from the Java plant. They have 

 repeatedly been in flower together since that period, and on a 

 close critical examination of the two plants, no difference 

 could be discovered, excepting that the Australian plant is 

 not so purely white in the flower as the Java one; their 

 identity is therefore clearly determined. Illawarra district, 

 near Port Jackson, (lat. 34i. S.) is therefore another locality. 



40. PHAJUS grandifolius. Loureiro. 



This plant I discovered in Sept. 1824, growing in exten- 

 sive swamps at the back of the beach, on the shores of More- 

 ton Bay, in lat. 27i, from whence I sent a large tub of the 

 plant to Kew, where, on flowering, it proved to be identical 

 with the old Limodorum Tankervillise ; and of its flower 

 M. Bauer made a drawing. Moreton Bay therefore is ano- 

 ther locality. 



