BY F. M. BAILEY, F.L.S. 15 



long ; flowers in twos or threes at the ends of the brancblets, 

 the pedicels about a line long. Flowers velvety, cream-coloured, 

 perianth-tube slender, about 2^ lines long, the lobes equal, 

 scarcely as long as the tube, marked by several longitudinal 

 nerves. Stamens 9 ; the six outer ones about as long as the 

 perianth-lobes, filaments flattened and hairy, the three inner 

 ones short, with prominent glands upon the hairy filaments. 

 Staminodia with sagittate heads and hairy filaments like the 

 stamens. Style and ovary nearly or quite glabrous ; stigma 

 dilated. Berry partially sunk in the slightly enlarged calyx-tube 

 from which the lobes have fallen. In the bark of several of 

 these trees we found nodules of two or more inches diameter. 



Order ELiEAGNACEiE. 



ELiEAGJ^US LATIFOLIA, Linn. 

 This large rambling plant has not previously been met with 

 so far out of the tropics. 



Order ORCHIDE^E. 



SPATHOGLOTTIS, Blume. 

 S. Soutteriinui, n. sp. (After Wm. Soutter, who has taken 

 much trouble in collecting plants of this Order from all 

 parts, and cultivating them at Bowen Park). Leaves crowning 

 the pseudo-bulb 6 or 7, the outer one without lamina, the others 

 increasing m length until the centre one attains a length 

 (including the rather long petiole) of 1^ to 2 feet, width at 

 broadest part about f in., but usually less, tapering to fine 

 points, and to the petioles, and prominently marked by numerous 

 rib-like nerves. Scape slender ; raceme about 3 in. long, 

 bearing 8 or 9 light purple flowers. Bracts lanceolate 7 or 8 

 lines long, pedicels about 1 in. long. Sepals and petals about 5 

 lines long. Labellum | the length of the other segments of the 

 perianth, articulate to the base of the column close to the lateral 

 lobes ; these latter are oblong or slightly spathulate, and 

 somewhat incurved, and on the disk between them at the upper 

 end, 2 large, thick, erect, rather spreading glabrous calli ; middle 

 lobe with a rather long claw, expanding into a somewhat 

 flabelliform blade, the claw with densely woolly margins. 

 Column much incurved, dilated upwards — presenting, with tlie 

 anther, an almost hooded appearance. 



