CRYPTANTHEMIS SLATERI, Rupp. 
This remarkable Orchid, discovered at Bullahdelah, N.S.W., has not so far been 
This is not surprising, for the whole plant is subterranean. It 
recorded elsewhere. 
Botanical circles had been 
was found “accidentally” by Mr. E. W. Slater in 1931. 
stirred two years earlier by the astonishing discovery at Corrigin, in Western Aus- 
tralia, of an Orchid also of subterranean habit. Though clearly belonging to the 
Orchidaceous sub-tribe which Dr. Rogers had to create for Rhizanthella, the Bullah- 
delah plant would not fit into that genus, and the Rev. H. M. R. Rupp gave it the 
name Cryptanthemis Slatert. 
