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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE QUEENSLAND FLORA. 



spreading to about f an inch wide, the segments acuminate, in- 

 flexed after flowering. Corona segments with horizontally 

 spreading laminse, very obtuse on the outer margin, the inner 

 margin acuminate and the back with two sharp keels as in 

 H. Australis. 



Hab. Mount Perry, climbing over rocks (Jas. Keys). 



This species differs from H. Australis, principally in the 

 pubescence, and shape of leaves. From the specimen sent it 

 would seem to be a free-flowerer. 



ORDER LENTIBULARIE^. 

 Utricularia biloba, B. Br. 



Hab. Queensland, in Mueller's Suppt.to Census of Austra. Plants. 



ORDER ORCHIDE^. 



Dendrobium Taylori, F.v.M. Fragm. VIII, as a Bulhophyllum ; 



Dendrohium uniflos, Bail. Trans. R.S.Ql., Vol. 1, p. 12. 

 Hab. Blomfield River (Norman Taylor)- Herberton (J, W. R. 



Stuart). 



Bulbopliyllum punctatum, Fitzg. in Britten s Journ. of Bot., 1883, 

 Hab. Queensland, in Mueller's Suppt. to Census of Austr. PI. 



Bulbophyllum clavigerum ; Cirrhopetalum clavigeruyn, Fitzgerald 



in Britten s Journal of Botany., 1883. 

 Hab. Queensland, in Mueller's Suppt. to Census of Austr. PI. 

 Bulbophyllum purpurascens, Sp. Nov. 



Rhizome creeping, forming dense matted patches. Pseudo- 

 bulbs about 1 line long, often so close together as to give the 

 rhizome a moniliform appearance, the scarions sheathing scales 

 prominent, leaves 5 to 12 lines long, deep green, thick channeled 

 above the back convex tapering at the base into a short stalk 

 above the pseudobulb. 



Peduncles erect, numerous filiform 6 to 12 lines long, with 

 several white scarious bracts at the base and close under the 

 solitary purplish flower. 



Lateral segments or sepals about 2 lines long, striate with S- 

 to 7 dark lines, broad lanceolate, obtuse, or the dorsal one 

 emarginate, the oblique base adnate to the basal projection of 

 the column forming a short pouch ; inner segments or petals 

 purplish, about 1|- lines long, 1-nerved, narrow lanceolate, point 

 elongated, and margins glandular-ciliate. Labellum clawed 2 

 lines long, dark-purple, lanceolate with fringed margins, two 

 lobed at the base, and a raised rib along the centre. Column 



