Oct. i, 1885.] The Australasian Scientific Magazine. 87 
From access to more specimens I can now furnish some additional 
notes on this superb species, which meanwhile has also found its way 
into conservatory-cultivation. 
Root emitting elongated flexuous strong fibres ; stem erect, from eight 
inches to much higher, attenuated at the base, gradually thickened towards 
the middle and also to some extent upwards, contracted again at the 
summit, consisting of several joints, cylindrical, conspicuously furrowed, in 
small specimens only about fin an inch wide at the thickest part, in larger 
specimens considerably stouter. Leaves few, terminal, almost ovate or 
lanceolate-ovate, 2-4 inches long, thickly chartaceous, slightly keeled. 
Racemes infra-terminal, bearing few or several flowers ; peduncle rather 
slender. Gynostemium minutely two-horned. Another operculate, blunt, 
ending in a depressed callus. Pollen masses of waxy consistence, yellow, 
erect, connate in two pairs, these again coherent, each of the constituting 
bodies being dimidiate-globular. The characteristics of the anther could 
only be observed on a solitary flower ; hence further observations are to be 
instituted, whether the structure thus far points really to Dendrobium, the 
other floral characteristics reminding of Phalsenopsis. It is, however, 
cognate to L). Sumneri (F. v. M. fr. vi. 94) and D. Phaltenopsis (Fitzg. in 
Gardn. Chron. 1883, p. 38 ; Austral. Orch. part 7.); of the latter also an 
excellent representation is given in the Bot. Mag. May 1885, where the 
great work on Austr. Orchids is referred to as “ a solitary example of an 
illustrated bot. publication of a high order of merit emanating from 
a Plritish Colony,” a sentence not just to science in other dominions of the 
British Colonial Empire. 
Dendrobium bifalce, mentioned already in this work I. p. 14, has been 
already (1862) transferred to the genus Doritis (near Phalasnopsis) by the 
great orchidographer, Dr. G. Reichenbach in his Xenia ii. 7. To Doritis 
belongs also (as D. paniculata) the Carteretia paniculata (Ach. Rich. sert. 
Astrolabe p. 10, t. 4); conf. B. & H. gen. pi. Ill, 574; to the same 
species should likewise be joined Saccolabium quinquefidum, Lindley 
in Hook. Bond, journ. n, 23S. — Dendrobium arachnostachyum, G. 
Reichenbach in the Gardeners’ Chronicle 1877, p. 334, may also prove 
a Papuan species. 
Cleisqstoma cryptochilum. 
F. v. M. in Wing’s S. Sc. Record, May 18S5. 
Astrolabe Ranges; G. Belford. 
Appendicula Chalmersiana. 
F. v. M. in Wing’s S. Sc. Record, May 1885. 
Astrolabe Ranges ; Rev. James Chalmers. 
Pholidota imbuicata. 
Bindley in Hook. exot. Flor. ii. t. 138. 
Jala River ; W. Armit. 
SCITAMINTE. 
Clinogyne dichotoma. 
Salisbury in transact, hort. soc. of London i. 276. 
Fly River ; D’Albertis ; according to Dr. Beccari, who quotes this plant 
under Wallich’s and Dietrich’s appellation as Maranta dichotoma. 
amaryllideh:. 
PIypoxis hygremetrica. 
Labillardiere, Nov. Hall, plant, spec. i. 82, t. 108. 
Near Port Moresby; Rev. W. G. Lawes. 
