866 LIST OF THE ORCHIDE^E OF THE MUDGEE DISTRICT, 



speciosum and Sturmia reflexa, which Mr. J. D. Cox and myself 

 collected in Mullamuddy Gully, about 5 miles from Mudgee. At 

 Cooyal on the Dividing Range distant about 18 miles from Mudgee, 

 I found a large number of the ordinary species of the district, 

 and some peculiar to that locality. The geological formation is 

 Hawkesbury sandstone, and, as might be expected, the plants there 

 bear a marked resemblance to those of the Blue Mountains, and of 

 that part of the coast district where sandstone prevails. Unfor- 

 tunately it lies so far away from me that I have not been able to 

 make a complete collection. 1 am sure that if I could examine 

 the place thoroughly it would yield many additional species. 



1. Sturmia reflexa, F. v. M. 



This plant I have found only on rocks facing south in shady 

 ravines at Cooyal, and at Mullamuddy. The flowering season is 

 from June to September, but some plants in my garden flowered 

 as early as April 1st. 



2. Dendrobium speciosum, Smith. 



At Cooyal on sandstone, and at Mullamuddy on basalt. The 

 plants at the latter place had the finest racemes of flowers I have 

 ever seen. It flowers in October. 



3. Dendrobium teretifolium, R.Br. 



Collected at Cooyal on moist sandstone rocks, associated with 

 Hyirnenophyllum tunbridgense. The plant was small and stunted. 



i D l podium punctatum, R. Br. 

 4. 



( var. Hamiltonianum, Bailey. 



I have collected the ordinary purplish-red form of this plant at 

 Cooyal, on both eastern and western slopes of the Dividing 

 Range. The yellow variety figured by Mr. Fitzgerald in Aust. 

 Orchids, Part 7, pi. 4, extends from Guntawang to Cooyal (21 



