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number of stamens, A dimorphism of the flowers occurs, the 

 stamens of some being inserted between the corolla lobes, in 

 others near the base of the tube, while the length of the style in 

 some flowers is greater than in others. 



MORINDA HyPOTEPHRA. 



Climbing ; leaves short-stalked, firmly chartaceous, mostly 

 ovate-lanceolar, acuminate, above dark -green, beneath bearing a 

 thin, somewhat velvet-like grey vestiture ; stipules fugacious ; 

 peduncles short, few or two together or seldom solitary ; headlets 

 small, with only from two to five flowers perfecting their fruit j 

 involucral pericarp inside beset with rigidulous pale shining hair- 

 lets, putamen of individual fruits almost ovate, smooth, com- 

 paratively thick, dark outside. 



On Mount Bellenden-Ker, at a height of about 5,000 feet ; W. 

 Sayer. 



Leaves and fruits, in size and shape, similar to those of M. 

 jasminoides. Flowers as yet unknown. Putamen about \ inch 

 long. This plant has been alluded to already in the April num- 

 ber of this periodical, 1887, but by name only. 



EULOPHIA HOLTZEI. 



Rhizome comparatively thin, somewhat basal, horizontally 

 procurrent ; leaf long, broad-linear, gradually narrowed upwards, 

 passing into a conspicuous stalk ; empty bracts, several or many, 

 semilanceolate-linear ; flowers, twelve or fewer in each raceme, 

 rather small, floral bracts reaching beyond the calyx-tube or 

 even to the upper end of the calyx-lobes, membranous, very 

 narrow, much pointed ; stalklets short, as well as the tube of the 

 calyx densely beset with minute hairlets ; basal protrusion of the 

 lower calyx-lobes blunt and very short ; paired petals linear- 

 lanceolar, as well as the lobes of the calyx pinkish, but somewhat 

 yellow at the upper end ; labellum nearly as long as the other 

 petals, its lateral lobes oblique-semielliptical, somewhat shorter 

 than the middle lobe, the latter slightly dilated and roundish at 

 the summit, with an additional minute apex, at the upper side 

 towards the middle and base beset with glandular papillules ; 

 gynostemium to near the summit very slender, bearing minute 

 hairlets, about half as long as the calyx-lobes ; young fruit hemi- 

 ellipsoid. 



Near Port Darwin (M. Holtze) the species approaches E. 

 ramentatea, but the leaf seems always an only one, and developed 

 prior to the flowering stem, the bracts are longer and narrower, 

 the flowers smaller, their basal protrusion is much shorter, and 

 the gynostemium of less broadness. From the material before 

 me, I have been unable to ascertain with exactitude the form of 

 the poUinia and of their stipes. As an Australian plant this is 

 very distinct. 



