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rning to a ealphu- coloured abruptly ee in a much on 
th 
os Eons ae, one a ate 
New Guinea. Described from panih sehichis were h 
y oe ir W. MacGregor from New Guinea for the writer, who hae them 
e 
over a the te Botanic Garden. The present species in some fF espects nye 
i wers 
seem o G. Waitziana, Blume Te elas in the more numerous flo 
in the top of labellum, calli, and rostellum 
Order LYCOPODIACE. 
LYCOPODIUM, Linn. : 
i. albescens, (n. sp.) (Name nuggested by the species turning’ 
‘more or less whitish hue when fading.) Plant epiphytical, id 
quently of a pale Se caused by a slight pulverulent covering Ey 
ticularly on the extremities. Stems robust, at first 
leaves ~ their smaller size. _ Bowen 
: A fine plant of the above is growing In the hothouse, ae 
which Mr Wn. Soutter informs me he rece ceived ew  heochan > ago fro ms 
who discovered it at South Cape, New Guinea. nore ding sei 
Baker’s mo monograph “The Fern-Allies,” this new species 18 alli Poni 
American L. taxifolium in some respects, and to the Borneo and Malay * 
species L. Dalhousieanwm in othe 
Order var gs 
ASPLENIUM, Linn. io 
A. nidus (Linn.) Plates V. and VI. rept lobed Faget 
on native plants of this common fern 
Mackay. 
Order FUNGI. 
CORTICIUM, Fries. 
C. scutellare, B. and. OC. Grev. Il. 4. Hegre Res! jure 
Resupinate, broadly ‘te hd immarginate, whitish then ees po J 4 
pape splitting a minute areole, spores clipsoid, 5 ae 
0 ke, n lette Quest 
Bowe 3 Found collie the branches of sickly dying trees in neglected : 
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