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the leaves and bearing about 12 minute flowers, each of wbicb is 
subtended by a transparent bract. Fruit white, globular, about 1 line 
diameter. 
Hab, : Bellenden-Zer, at about 4,000 ft. above sea-level. 
No fresh flowers foimd on the i^lants; only found the plants on one tree, on 
wliicli they were vevj numerous. Unfortunately all the live plants became rotten 
before they reached Brisbane. 
BENDIiOBIUM, Swartz. 
D. unduiatum, I^.^r. ; Prod. 332; El. Austr. li. 278. 1. 
D. speciOSnm, Sm. ; Exot. Bot. i. 17, t. lO ; M. Austr. vi. 279. 
4, and top of Walsh's Pyramid, Mulgrave E-iver. 
D. speciOSUm, var. fUSiforme, Bail. ; Syn. Queensl. Plora, 
509. 1, 2. 
D. tetragonum, A. Gimn. in Bot. Eeg. 1839 ; Misc. 33 ; PI. 
Austr. vi. 279. 1, 2. 
D. canaliCUlatum, B. Br. Prod. 333 ; PI. Austr. vi. 282. 7. 
D. hispidum, var. Taylori, Bail. 1st Suppl. Syn. Queensl. 
b'l. 55, 2, 3. 
teretifolium, i?. Br. ; Prod. 333 ; PL Austr. vi. 285. 1, 7. 
BULBOPiiYLLUM, Thou. 
B. lichenastrum, F. v. M. ; Pragm. vii. 60 ; PI. Austr. vi. 287. 
1, 2, 3. 
B. Toressse, n. sp. (After Miss Toressa Meston.) A small 
plant with creeping rhizome adhering close to the granite rocks by 
roots from the under side, extending to 2 or 3 in. in length, often 
forming radiating patches. The upper surface closely covered by 
distichous, closely sessile, ovate-lanceolate, rugose leaves, which are 
so concave on the upper face as to be somewhat cymbiform, 3 or 
4 lines long, with a single nearly sessile flower nestling at the base. 
Plowers yellowish- white, subtended by a prominent scarious bract ; 
3 outer segments broad and about 2 lines long, the lateral ones 
forming a short, blunt, almost truncate spur ; the inner segments 
white, of delicate texture, and nearly the length of the outer ones. 
Labellum of equal length with the other segments, 3-lobecl, lateral 
lobes dotted with purple, very short ; middle lobe blunt and thick, 
bright yellow ; column short and, for the size of the flower, prominently 
winged. 
Hab. : On the shady rocks, Whelanian Pools ; in flower in June and July. 
B. nematopodum^ F. v. M. ; Pragm. viii. 30 ; PI. Austr. vi. 287. 
2. Stipulary bract rigidly ribbed. Outer segment of flower with a 
purple edge, and 3 purple lines down the centre ; inner segments about 
half the length of outer, say about \\ lines, margin and one line down 
centre purple. Labellum f as long as outer segments, and very velvety, 
with purple hairs; column length of inner segments. — Note from 
pocket-hooh. 
B, Baileyi, F. v. M. ; Pragm. ix. 5. 1, 2, 3. 
B. Prenticei, F.v. M. in Wing's South Sc. Eecord i. 173; Syn. 
Queensl. Plora, 513. 3, 4. 
B. purpurascens, Bail; Procd. Eoy. Soc. Queensl. 1; 1st Suppl. 
Queensl. PI. 55. 2. 
