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crowded at the apex forming a head but openmg one at a time. 

 Bracts broad, fleshy, pointed, segments of flowers all incurved, 

 resembling those of some of our small-flowered Dendrohiums. 

 Pedicels 3 lines long. Sepals broad-lanceolate about 3 lines 

 long. Petals narrow-linear shorter than the sepals. Labellum 

 long as the sepals, the lateral lobes long and broad, the middle 

 lobe reduced to a truncate end to the labellum, the whole upper 

 surface covered with a dense short white wool, the central scale 

 broad with ciliate margins and recurved coloured point. Spur 

 broad, obtuse, stained with yellow and red, plate at orifice 

 transverse. Column white semiterete, scarcely one-third the 

 length of the sepals. Pollen-masses oval, yellow. Capsule 

 slender, 2| in. long. 



Hah. : Cairns. — L. J. Nugent. 



Order SCITAMINE^. 



ALPINIA CiERULEA, var. Arundelliana. 



This variety is much smaller than the common form, the 

 margin of the leaves are wavy, and the labellum of the flower 

 besides being small is of a rosy-red colour. The fruit only 

 differs in its smaller size. Although difficult to describe in 

 words, the distinction between these two forms is very evident 

 when seen in the scrubs growing side by side as they do in this 

 locality. 



The variety is named after Mr. E, H. Arundell, a resident 

 in the district, who has rendered much assistance toward? 

 collecting specimens of the Eumundi plants. 



Order PANDANACE^. 



FREYCINETIA GAUDICHAUDII, R. Br. 



Specimens of this species, bearing the female inflorescence 

 were obtained, for the first time so far south, its previously 

 recorded southern habitat being Eockhampton ; and no male 

 inflorescence has so far been met witTi in Australia. The bracts 

 on the specimens collected were nearly white and very deciduous, 

 the outer ones not exceeding 2 in. in length, the innermost ones 

 much smaller, very narrow and quite- membranous. '• ^"■^' ■j'3^^' 



