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this enabled a satisfactory description to be draAvn np. 
Prior to finding flowering material it Avas thought tliat 
because of the peculiar nature of the seeds and the ril)bed 
and toothed capsule that the plant could have been a 
Trisl(fnia or au Aiujophora. 
The plant Avas later found in the Avesteru to south- 
Avesteru foothills of .Alt. Gravatt, near Sunnybank Ceme- 
tery Keserve by Mr. (b T. AA'liite in March, 1981. 
A ucAV locality Avas found beside the old Cleveland 
lioad, Pelmont. near (b-eek Hoad in Xovember, 1958. A 
single plant is groAving Avithiii sight of the road and it is 
a Avonder that it lias not been reported before. HoAvever, 
the plant had been severley damaged by fire and may not 
have floAvered for several years. Specimens Avere gathered 
by ^Ir. A. A. Salmon and myself Avithin a day or tAVO of 
eacli other and these avci’c identified by Mr. S. T. Blake 
of the Government Botanist’s Office. The tree floAvered 
again profusely in 195-I-. 
PolloAving the floAvering in 1958, several peoi)!e have 
i-aised seedlings and it is to be 1io]kh1 tiiat this beautiful 
wliite-floAvering gum Avill l?ecome one of the native shrubs 
in Brisbane gardens. 
A NEW ORCHID FROM SOUTH QUEENSLAND 
T. E. HUNT 
Saccolabium virgatinn sp. nov. Plajita epiphytica, 
parvula. Folia 2-8, linearidanceolata, vaginantia, acuta, 
crassa, canaliculata, pilis simplicibus minutissimis canes- 
centia, circa 2.7 cm longa et 4 mm lata. Ilacemus circa 4 
cm longus, pauciflorus, eanesens, rubidus. Pedieellus 
cum ovario circa 7 mm longus, rubidus. Sepala petalaque 
acqualia, linearia, circa 8 mm longa, subacuta, alba 
marginibus et linea media coccinea. Labellum in pede 
coliimnae sessile, saccatum, crassum ; lamina circa 8 mm 
longa et 2 mm lata, recurva, ad basem canaliculata, 
glandulosa, virido-fiava ; lobi laterales erecti, lati, acuti; 
lobus medius brevissimus marginibus erectis; saccus circa 
2 mm longus, tenuis, ad basem extus eanaliculatus, inanis. 
Columna circa 2 mm longa, tenius, curva, marginibus 
coccineis; anthera ampla, rostrata, partim crocea partim 
coccinea; rostellinu lougissimum ; stigma longum tenue ; 
polliiiia 2, sulcata. 
MORETON DISTRICT : AYunbiu*ra, near Mud- 
geeraha ; October, 1958 ; 1). Hoekings. TYPE in Queens- 
land Herbarium, Brisbane. 
Small epiphyte. Stem short, erect. Roots fcAv, long, 
white. Leaves fcAv, linear-lanceolate, acute, curved or 
