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‘Order BIGNONIACER, 
DIPLANTHERA, RB. Br. 
D. hirsuta, (n.sp.) Described by collectors as a small tree. 
Branchlets quadrangular and densely hirsute. Leaves opposite or in 
whorls of three, narrow-lanceolate in outline, but very irregular, the 
_ ends of some being broadly truncate, attaining 20 inches in length, 
with a breadth of 64 inches about the centre, margins repand, crenu- 
late, or deeply and very irregularly toothed, base cordate, and much 
undulate, petioles + to 14 hir pu- 
late, coriaceous, appearing 3-lobed from 4 of the lobes being joined 
m pairs to n e rming as it were two broad emarginate 
lobes, hairy outside, the inside bearing minute scale-li e glands. 
Corolla yellow, ringent, 1 in. long, spreading to 13 in. wide, the 
lobes ovate-apiculate. 
ai Hab.: Stony Creek, Cairns (a shoot and loose flowers), Z. J. Nugent. A large 
_ -#at and very young shoot gathered on Thursday Island, E. Cowley. 
Order ORCHIDEZ. 
LIPARIS, Rich. 
L, Nugentee (n. sp.) (After Mrs. L. J. Nugent, a collector and 
cultivator of Queensland Orchidew). Epiphyte. Rhizome creeping, 
: Pp ; : 
oducing scape-like stems with the lower part covered with scaled 
i i seudo- 
_ theathing base short, apex somewhat abrupt] inate; the pseudo- 
: ; ptly acuminate ; 
ag Tag bearing Peis its crown the remains of the old peduncle. 
of flower raceme quadrangular, 
A Aeeg fugacious, very iROEOW: Pedicels § lines long. Sepals about 6 
€s long and scarcely a line broad, linear, 
A still narrower but quite as long, all refle 
th © cream-coloured, no markings or veins visible. 
a y €xpanding into wings. Anther small, flat apicula 
: tke the Tostellum ; pollen-masses pale. (Plate IIT.) 
Eb. Mountain range near Cairns, L. J. Nugent. 
DEN DROBIUN, Sw. 
 SPeCiosum, var. Bancroftianum, 7. ¢. Rehb. f. Plant 
With ‘the robust abit of D. speciosum, var. Hillii, but segments of 
