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short ; anther-lid rotund, nearly white; pollen-masses golden-yellow 
in the flower dissected I found only 2 globular masses). 
ab.: Numminbah, Upper Nerang, H. Schneider. 
My friend Mr. R. D. Fitzgerald, to whom I sent af 
description my only specimen that he might figure it in his illustrated monograph 
of the Australian orchids, writes me that he considers this plant to be identical 
with his lately Bu 
his new genus (a copy of which he has kindly sent me) the flowers are 
apetalous, while in my plant it will be seen I haye described these organs. Witl 
i educed to 2, Mr. Bentham mentions this 
being the case at times in plants of the genus Bulbophyllum. As, however, I 
think the two plants may prove identical, I use the same word for the specific 
name, leaving botanists to adopt whichever genus they think fit. 
Trize NEOTTIE®. 
PTEROSTYLIS, RB. Br. 
Hab.: Near Cairns, C. J. Wild, 
Order PALMA. 
ARECA, Linn. } 
A. appendiculata (n. sp.) (Referring to appendage on petals. 
Trunk erect, with a diameter of about 1 eee oe 20 ft. in height 
to the base of the crown. Leaves 9 to 12 {t. long, from 12 to 20 
forming the crown, sheathing base short, petiole or portion without 
pinne also short, pinnew alternate or subopposite, from 70 to 80 on each 
side of rhachis, the longest about 23 ft. long and 1} in. broad, those — 
Bracts 3 or 4, the MS sean a 
ite, 2 ft. long and about 6 or 7 in. broad, lanceolate 
ous owe 
or nearly so. Sepals 3, thin, valvate, about 1 line long, from a brow 
base tapering to a subulate point. Petals white, about as long 23%" 
as the sepals, valvate, thick, fleshy, obtuse, bearin upon the i 
fce a prominent triangular gland or appendage. Stamens 6, se ; 
filaments very short, not so long as the rather large deeply sagittate — 
