18 : 
Tre CROTONEA.—Svusrriss ACALYPHEA, 
MALLOTUS, Lour. 
MM. nee ee var. angustifolia. <A slender shrub, atonmae 
attaining 4 or 5 ft. but often flowering and fruiting when only 6 to” 
12 in. high. ewe except when very young, dark-green, appearing - 
glabrous, the small stellate scales only visible under a lens, attaining © 
5 or 6 in. in length, with a breadth under 1} in. tapering to an acute _ 
point and to the very short petiole, penniveined, the usual basal pair 
scarcely distinct from the others, the primary veins ending in sharp 
teeth on the margin of the leaf. Peduncle in = ouphae axils, slender : 
2 to over 3 in. long, bearing clusters of wor 
saree a Field Naturalists, March, 18 
em of distinction between the Eset: vie other forms of this plant are 
found in ite narrower leaves, their sharp serrated margins, the — its smaller | 
growth, and the absence of the peculiar 2abte so common to the species. 
| 
Order URTICACEZ. 
TRIBE raiuey alee 
nn. 
. Watkinsiana (n. sp.) (A Geo, Watkins, present of the 
Queensland Pharmecauterdl Society, who for many years has been all | 
ardent collector of Queensland plants.) A very large glabrous tree, 
with lofty ee AUG smooth light-coloured bark, the base of te 
coriaceous, the transverse parallel primary veins not very vom 
the intermediate ones very faint, all anastomosing and formes ats 
intramarginal one some distance within the margin, much ta ring | 
towards a rather slender petiole of about 2 to 23 in. Stipules abou : 
3 in 1. long, narrow-acuminate. Rece ss in axillary pairs, se 
g, 1 to 1} i en m 
Hab.: Mooloolah, Field Nateraity one ae ie of Bunya Mountains, 
H. Tryon; top of Blackall Fite: 4 
‘This large handsome t arg a pie for shade purposes, like BE 
macrophylla, which it ple mescriiics : 
Order ORCHIDEZ. 
DENDROBIUM, Sw. 
um, var. albo-marginatum. This form has ight 
pa arate flowe ers, the sepals of which have a well-marked ia 
rder, the plates of labellum wh ite. 2 
bigibbum, v venosum,. This form is of an almost | 
uniform dark-pink ive but distinct from all by the very prominent 
vena ie 
The above two distinct forms are now flo e bush-house, | 
Mr, J. A. Beal, a _— who of late has paid sr erica te to the cultivatio® | 
of this family of plants. The plants — veral others, many of mines h have 
not yet, bloomed, were received from Cape as 
