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The Queensland Naturalist. 
Feb.. 1922 
When in flower the plants seem wrapped in a white mist. 
The flowers are like tiny white bells on thread-like stems, 
and are sweet-scented. Flowers any time of the year. 
Red-eye Orchid (Bulbopkyllum bracteatum) . — Small 
fleshy leaves of pale green, growing in masses close to 
trunks of trees. Tiny red flower against plant, with a 
short, fat pseudobulb. 
Grassy Orchid ( Cy rubidium suave). — Often found in 
hollows of dead trees; grass-like leaves and long stems of 
yellow flowers. Blooms in September. 
She-oak Orchid (Cy rubidium albuciflorum) . — Found 
largely on she-oak ( Casuarina ) trees and also on dead 
trees. Bulb-like stem and shiny, palm-like leaves at top. 
Long sweet-scented stems of olive-green flowers. Hand- 
some* seed-pod of brown and green. 
Olive Orchid ( Cymbidium canaliculatumi) . — Similar 
to She-oak Orchid, but the bulbs more fleshy and it loves 
moist scrub trees to grow on. Flowers greeny yellow on 
drooping stems. 
GROUND ORCHIDS. 
Scrub Lily ( Calanthe voratrifolia ) . — Grows along 
creek-banks. Broad green leaves and long fleshy roots. 
Flowers carried on tall straight stems, 2 to 3 ft. high, 
crowned on top with bunch of white flowers, which blacken 
when touched. A lovely decorative plant. 
Canary Orchid (Diuris sulphured). — Found in grassy 
places. A spike of quaint flowers, yellow and brown, shoot 
up from a bulb several inches beneath the ground. 
Flowers in September. 
Bell Orchid ( Gastrodia scsamoides). — Deep creamy- 
brown stalk of bells, with a papery rattle when shaken. 
Grows from a bulb of the same colour. Likes the border 
of scrub and grass land. Appears in September and 
October. 
Spotted Maroon Orchid (Dipodium punctatum) . — On 
the edge of grass-land these maroon flowers come. The 
flowers are carried high on stem 2 to 3 ft. long. Blooms 
in December. 
“Pinkies” (Caladenia earned). — These bright flve- 
petalled little things love the grass-land and have a grass- 
like leaf springing from a small round white bulb. They 
come to bloom in September. 
Horned Orchid (Pterostylis reflexa). — These are 
found in June in the shaded undergrowth, coming up from 
a tiny bulb ; they have long leaves right up the flower- 
stem. Two horns (the points of the lateral sepals) on 
