620 A NKW SPECIES OF MACADAMIA, ivc, 



The discovery of this New Guinea plant in New >South Wales 

 adds a genus to the flora ot Austi-alia. It is perhaps identical 

 with Gaslrodia ovata, F. M. Bailey (Botany Bulletin, No. xi\'. 

 p. 13, Dept. Agriculture, Queensland, 1896), and possibly identi- 

 cal with the Ancficloclnlns (" species unascertained ") recorded as 

 having been found in Queensland. 8ee Mueller's Census (2nd 

 edition, p. 188). 



The genus Anrectochilus resembles C/ieirost'/lis closely in habit, 

 and the two genera may be easily confounded from imperfect 

 material. 



A shortened translation of Blume's original description of 

 Cheirostylis grandljiora is given herewith, as a matter of 

 convenience. 



ClIEIKOSTVLlS UHANDIFLORA, Blume. 



Herb with a creeping fleshy I'hizome, constricted between the 

 nodes. Scape ascending, terete, minutely glandular-hairy in the 

 upper part and with two distant sheathing bracts between the 

 flowers and leaves. Leaves generally 4, |- to above 1 inch long, 

 and ^ to f inch broad, 3- to 5-nerved and faintly reticulate, 

 brownish-green and somewhat purplish above, pale-purpurascent 

 underneath. Flowers generally 3 on the scape, rarely solitary, 

 shortly pedicellate and with a bract on the liase of the pedicel. 

 ►Sepals connate to above the middle, with a gibbous base, pale 

 rose-coloured and minutely glandular-haiiy outside. Petals 

 adnate to the limb of the dorsal sepal. Laljellum white, with a 

 canaliculate gibbous base, adnate to the column, the erect concave 

 base with inflexed margins and 4 filiform appendices inside on 

 each side, the exserted limb dilated. 2-lobed, with cuneate loljes 

 laciniate at the end. Column short, thick, with 2 erect appendages 

 in front, about as long as the 2-cleft rostellum. Anthers short, 

 acuminate, caudicle elongated. 



Note on Grevillea alpina, Lindl., new for New South Wales. 

 This species has hitherto only been recorded from Victoria 

 (B. Fl. v. 441). It was collected by Major (afterwards Sir 



