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The above authors place this species near P. obversa.—From Vict. 
Nat. 1c. 
‘Hab-: Bartle Frere, Stephen Johnson. 
From a specimen kindly sent me of the above plant by Baron Mueller I find 
it identical with that collected by the Bellenden-Ker Expedition on the rocks at 
the summit of Bartle Frere, and given in the report as a form of P. reflexa, 
Order EUPHORBIACEA. ° 
Trine PHYLLANTHEZ. 
ANTIDESMA, Linn. 
A. Ghesembilla, Gertn.; Benth., Fl. Austr. vi. 85. Black ~ 
Currant tree of Walsh River. A tree about 20 ft. in height, the © 
nded or contracted he b ther thin, but often shining 
above, 15 to 2 or rarely 3 in. long. Male spikes dense in mo 
ec less so in the Australian ones, 1 to 2 in. g, females 
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terminal panicle. Male flowers sessile or nearly so; perianth deeply 
ed or rarely 4 ovate ciliate segments not 4-line long. 
famens varying from’8 to 5, the filaments at least 1 line long. 
Glands broad, hirsute. Female flowers on very short thick pedicels. 
Yary when young pubescent or hirsute, bu ecoming 
glabrous as it enlarges Styles short, united at the base, spreading 
Upwards, shortly 2-] Drupes purple or black, not ab 3 lines 
Hab.: Walsh River, 7. Barclay-Millar. 
Order ORCHIDEZ. ‘ 
BULBOPHYLLUM, Thou. 
al acteatum, Bail. Rhizome shortly creeping. Pseudo-bulbs 
the 213 depressed-tlobular, 3 or 4 lines diameter, crowded upon 
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ire vty black on the under surface and glossy, claw elastic and 
he lamina, 3-neryed below the articulation; column very 
