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Damelii, a rare carabus from Cape York, pair of Calodema 

 regalis, a rare buprestid from N. Queensland, and Stigmodera 

 Foriunii, and S. vitticollis, rare Victorian buprestids, also four 

 species of orchids in illustration of paper ; by Mr. French, jun,, 

 eggs of lyre-bird, silver gull, Mortier's tribonyx, and the black- 

 breasted porphyrio ; by Master H. Hill, Victorian insects ; by 

 Mr. H. Kennon, conglomerates from Bacchus Marsh and 

 sandstone from Warragul ; by Mr. G. A. Keartland, a fine 

 hawk moth, Choerocampa sp., also specimens of Gippsland bell- 

 bird from Bunyip ; by Mr. J. N. M'Kibbin, the orchids, 

 Pterostylis acuminata, and P. aphylla, in bloom ; by Mr. F. 

 Reader, calabashes or bottle gourds, and fungus in illustration 

 of paper; and by Mr. H. Watts, micro-fungi. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



ORCHIDE^ OF VICTORIA. 



By C. French, F.L.S , Department of Government Botanist, 

 Melbourne. 



Part ii. 



F. FiMBRiATUS, (F. von Mueller.) 



Glabrous or nearly so, 6 inches to i foot high. Leaf some- 

 times very small and rarely above i inch long, ovate-lanceolate 

 or oblong. Darkish green, with purple stripes. Flowers 2 or 

 3, sometimes 5, rather distant on erect pedicels of ^ to f inch, 

 of a pale brownish yellow. Dorsal sepal oblong-lanceolate. 

 Labellum half as long as the sepals and broader than long, 

 truncate and fringed at the broad end, the disk without any 

 calli. 



This somewhat obscure little plant is one in which our club 

 should take special interest, it having been found for the first 

 time in the colony by a member of the club on the occasion of 

 its first excursion, when it was observed in flower growing on 

 the sand-hills behind the Red-Bluflf Hotel at Cheltenhan. It 

 is a singular fact that this species had been found but once 

 previously, and then on the Swan-River, West Australia, by 

 Drummond. Baron von Mueller claims to have seen the 

 leaves many years ago on the heath land around Brighton, 

 but the honour of first finding it in flower in Victoria certainly 

 belongs to the Field Naturalists' Club. This orchid you will 

 find in flower in April and in May, when it dies down, the 

 pretty and very distinctly marked leaves remaining for many 

 months above ground. It is easily overlooked when in flower 

 as the dull yellow is somewhat difficult to detect amongst the 



