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at the head of the Billinger river, associated with a strangely proliferous 

 form of Dendrohiiim Kingianum and clumps of Sturmia (Liparis) rejiexa. 

 It is found within the spray of the Naroo Falls and the surrounding 

 streams, in masses, cHnging to the dripping rocks and covering the 

 black basalt with its green roots that stretch for yards over the smooth 

 surface."* 



We are indebted to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., for materials for 

 description and illustration. 



S. Hartmanni. 



Stems about 2 inches long, each with three — five leaves. Leaves hard 



and fleshy, liuear-obloug, 3 — 5 inches long, obtuse, sometimes toothed at 



the apex. Peduncles stoutish, longer than the leaves, loosely racemose, 



many flowered. Flowers | — | inch in diameter, on short white pedicels 



spotted with red, and sheathed at the base by a small triangular bract ', 



sepals and petals white spotted at the Ijase on both sides with red, the 



sepals oval-oblong, the petals similar but narrower ; lip shorter than the 



other segments, saccate with two falcately oblong erect side lobes that 



are white striated with red-purple, and a small conical intermediate one 



with a two-lobed orange-yellow callus. Column very short. 



Sarcochilus Hartmanni, F. Mul. Frag. VIII. p. 248 (1874). Bot. Mag. t. 7010. 

 S. rubricentrum, Fitzg. in Gard. Chron. XIV. (1880), p. 38. Id. Orch. mistral. II. 

 part I. Thrixspermum Hartmanni, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. VII. (1877), p. 716. 



Native of the mountain woods near Toowoomba, in Queensland, 



where it was discovered by the late Mr. Charles Hartmann, an 



amateur botanist of that settlement. It was subsequently detected 



by Mr. E, Ramsay, F.L.S., at Cairns, in the same colony. Its very 



stout, erect peduncles with longer racemes of differently coloured 



smaller flowers distinguish it from the closely allied Sarcochilus 



Fitzgeraldi. 



S. luniferus. 



" Leaves in the ordinary state of the plant, none. Roots very many, 



3 — 5 inches long, flattened. Peduncles 1 — 2 inches long, stout, decurved, 



hispidulous, green, purple-spotted with two— three white, ovate, acute 



scales. Racemes drooping, many flowered. Flowers i inch in diameter : 



sepals and petals ellipticoblong, obtuse, yellow spotted with orange-red ; 



lip white, saccate with large erect, ovate, obtuse side lobes, a minute 



recurved mid-lobe, and two thick ridges on the papillose ilisk." 



{Botanical Magazine). 



Sarcochilus luniferus, Hook. f. Bot. Mar/, t. 7044. Id. Fl. lirit. Ind. VI. p. 37. 

 Thrixspermum luniferum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 768. Id. Trans. Liun. 

 Soc. XXX, p. 136. 



* Aadralian Orchids, loc. cit. supra. 



