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TWO QUEENSLAND ORCHIDS. 
By A. B. Rennie, M.A., D.Sc. 
Mr. J. Sparkes, to whose Queensland correspondent we owe the 
fans Sparkesti described in this Journal for 1898 (p. 221), has 
ently flowered two other interesting Orchids received from the 
ao source. One is aay Evia pgeiicns F, Muell. (in Wing’s 
Southern Science Record, ii. 253), no specimens of which seem 
hitherto to have reac ched this canis. lt was the first Eria known 
from Australia, and the original locality, Mulgrave River, is only 
about twenty- ive miles north of Jo a River, from the neigh- 
bourhood of which Mr. Sparkes’ specimens came Mr. F. M. 
Bailey conch a second species of the genus from Johnstone River 
in 1886, this seems a good hunting ground, and we shall hope for 
more interesting plants. Dr. Mueller’s description of Kria Fitzalani 
was admittedly made from imperfect specimens, and no measure- 
ments are given. The olen additional notes from Mr. Sparkes’ 
plant may therefore be usefu 
Era PErzacant F. Muell. mame 8 in. long; flowers 4 in. from 
front tok sepals 5-nerved, the dorsal oblong with rounded apex, 44 
lines long by baasly 2 lines broad, the lateral triangular-ovate from a 
broad base, very blunt, 4 by 24 lines; lateral petals narrowly oblong 
narrowed at the base, with rounded apex, 44 lines long by scarcely i 
lines broad ; lip strongly curved, 4 by 2} lines; column 1 line long, 
foot 2 lines; pollen-masses lemon-yellow. Pseudobulb obliquely 
conical, shortly narrowed at the base ; the largest 5 in. long and 4 in. 
circumference above the base. Leaves lanceolate, subacute, with 
about 11 nerves; an average specimen 54 in. long by 1 in. road. 
She sent by Mr. Arthur O. Jones, J.P., of Geraldton, Johnstone 
River, N.E. pigeon Flowered at Ewhurst, Surrey, by Mr. J. 
Sparkes, March, 1899. 
d is a Dendrobium with a small dense raceme of 
The secon 
beautiful fleshy dead-white flowers, the glee -segments tipped 
with green, and the lip with a somewhat hood-like polished green 
‘ hite 
Wilhelm. land), the acai cal whic h, howis ver, are larger and 
sulphur-yellow in colour, with a fuscous- tipped lip. We may 
consider it as an Ruslan variety of the ae 
D. Hoxtirunen Krinzl. var. AusTRALIENSE, var. noy. Flowers 
one-third smaller than in the type, riers white tipped with green. 
aldton, Johnstone River, N.E. Queensland. Flowered by 
Mr. J. Sparkes at Ewhurst, Surrey, May, 1899. 
¥. oe says: ‘‘Its largest peendobulb i is 24 in. long, an 
% in. indiameter. There are iuenty- nine leaf-scars. Other bathe 
are 20 in. long, and have twenty-three scars. The growth reminds 
one of D. nobile.”” He sends a leaf which is ovate-lanceolate, subacute, 
and measures 43 by ii in. 
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