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CONTRIBUTIOirs TO THE QUEENSLAND FLORA. 



the leaves, slender and bearing about 3 or 4 white or lilac 

 stained flowers. 



Hab. on rocks Main Range, collected by B. Crow and C. H. 

 Hartmann. 



This variety differs from the usual form in being much smaller, 

 forming more dense masses, and in the colour of the flowers. 



Dendrobinm Stuartii, Sp. Nov. 



Stems slender, prominently striate, 6 to 18 in. long, leafy, of a 

 purplish color, the old leafless ones, bearing numerous short 

 racemes of usually 3-flowers. Leaves lanceolate, i to 2 in. long. 

 Racemes axillary, the rhachis about ^ in. long, and pedicels of 

 about the same length. Sepals and petals narrow lanceolate, 

 yellowish-green, y2 in. long. Spur straight about 3 lines long. 

 Labellum tomentose with fringed undulate edges, the disk plates 

 not prominent, obtuse ovate ^ in. long including the claw which 

 is articulated to the base of the spur, (as in Bulbophyllum) with- 

 out lateral lobes, beautifully maiked with forked red veins, which 

 are crossed by two longitudinal ones. Column short, white, the 

 very narrow wings with a purple edge. Flowers very fragrant. 



Described from a single plant now flowering in the Brisbane 

 Botanic Gardens, sent from near Herberton by J. W. R. Stuart, 

 Esq., from whom several other rare and perhaps new species 

 have been received. 



Dendrobium uniflos, Sp. Nov. 



Rhizome creeping, much matted, and clothed with the torn 

 old sheaths. Stems numerous, erect, 2 to 3 in. high, i line 

 diameter, bluntly ribbed and bearing at the top a single leaf and 

 flower. I>eaf al30ut 2 in. long, 4 lines broad, sharply keeled, 

 oblong with an emarginate apex, articulate by its broad base to 

 the stem. Pedicel at the base of the leaf, 6 lines long, curved 

 and supported at the base by a scarious ribbed bract about 

 3 lines long and i line broad. Sepals oblong-ovate about 2}^ 

 lines long, spreading, white, the dorsal one narrower than thei 

 lateral ones, which latter are produced with the column into a I 

 shcrt broad spur. Petals narrow, white, incurved. Labellum j 

 shortly connate with the basal projection of the column, lateral i 

 lobes very narrow, middle lobe cordate, about i line broad, the 

 surface glandular, texture thick, transversely furrowed, orange 

 coloured. Column prominent, the wings narrow, ending at the 

 top in a sharp incurved tooth. Anther lid purple. Near 

 Herberton. J. W. R. Stuart. 



Described from plant in Brisbane Botanic Garden. 



