Notes on the Genus Doryanthes, with a notice and 
description of a new species. 
By Cuartes Moors, F.LS. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N. .8.W., 3 December, 1884.) 
Tur Genus Doryanthes—the Gigantic Lily of colonists, or the 
Goumea of the aborigines—was founded in 1800, on a single 
species discovered by the earlier settlers in this country, growing 
i at numbers on the western extremity of Botany Bay, near 
George’s River. Not one of the many remarkable new forms of 
plants found by the first scientific explorers in this country appears 
to have attracted more attention than this so-called Gigantic Lily, 
extending in more or less abundance as far south as Jervis Bay, 
near Toowoomba, Queensland. Be that as 1t may the country to 
the west of Botany Bay may be regarded as the central locality of 
valuable fibre, which furnished the natives with a material for 
fishing lines and nets. The late Sir Thomas Mitchell—who long 
held the office of Surveyor-General of this Colony, and perhaps on 
the whole the most distinguished colonist Australia can yet boast 
of—one of the founders of this Society, read a paper at one of its 
first mectings, entitled the “ Resources of the County of Cumber- 
land,” in which he drew marked attention to the beauty, tenacity, 
and probable ultimate value of its fibre, of which, prepared for the 
occasion, a splendid sample was produced, nearly 3 feet in length, 
and of quite a silky ap ce ; but notwithstanding the valuable 
