350 A NEW CRYPTOCARYA FROM LORD HOWE ISLAND. 



22 mm. lata, rigidiuscule coriacea, margine ipso satis incrassata, 

 costis suberectis subtus tenuissime filiformi-prominulis, punctis 

 intrafoliaceis magnis raris, praesertim prope basin dissitis, in 

 foliis junioribus subtus prosilientibus praedita, supra densissime 

 punctulis minutissimis atris obsita. Inflorescentiae e ramulis 

 verruciformibus formatae, 1-4 florae, ad 3 mm. longae, pedicellis 

 brevissimis (vix 1 mm. longis), crassis, glabris; flores 2-2, 5 mm. 

 longi, glabri; sepala subpatenti-pateriformia, ad J connata, lobis 

 squamiformi-ovatis, apice paullo fimbriatis, punctis perpaucis 

 (1-2) nigris praeditis; petala permanifeste ad J longit. connata, 

 late elliptica, apice rotundata, atro-punctata; antherae (in flore 

 (J) quam petala paullo tantum breviores, latissime ovatae, apice 

 rotundatae et hie puncto magno atro subdorsali praeditae; ovarium 

 in flore (J ovoideum; stigmate magno loboso. 



" Australien : Lord Howe's Island (Fullagar), an der Kuste des 

 trop. Australiens (F. Bauer). — Kult. im Bot. Gart. Sidney." 



Mez states the difference between the two species briefly as 

 follows : — 



Folia + 13 mm. longa, oblongo-lanceolata, lineolata myrtillina. 



Folia + 50 mm. longa, elliptica, baud lineolata jdaty.^tigvia. 



ORCHIDE^. 



Dendrobium gracilicaule, F.V.M., var. Howeanum, Maiden, 

 these Proceedings, 1899, 382. 



D. gracilicaule, F.v.M., (Fragm. ix. 78, as a Lord Howe Island 

 plant). 



Dr. A. B. Rendle {Journ. Bot. xxxix. 197, June, 1901) describes 

 Dendrohium (Stachyobium) Jonesii from Gerald town, Johnstone 

 River, Queensland, and surmises that it may be identical with my 

 Lord Howe Island plant. The latter is very closely allied to D. 

 Jonesii and seems to differ from it merely in the colour of the 

 flowers, which is more greenish-yellow in the Lord Howe plant, 

 and the transverse purple stripes of the labellum of D. Jonesii are 

 onlj^ faintly marked in the other plant. 



I am inclined to think that the proper view is to look upon the 

 orchid in question as a form of D. gracilicaule, but the matter is 



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