The Australian Naturalist 
Vol. V. APRIL, 1925. Part 14. 
NOTE.—Members having any matter of interest suitable for public 
ation in these pages are requested to conimunicate with the Editor 
ON THE ORCHIDS OF THE BULLADELAH DISTRICT 
OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
(Rev. H. M. R. Rupp, Paterson, N.S.W.) 
The district referred to in these notes comprises an irre- 
gular area lying about 60 miles to the north of Neweastle, and 
extending in a north-easterly direction from the middle portion 
of the Myall River Valley, across the northern end of the Myall 
Lakes, to the sea-coast near Smith’s Lake, a few miles north 
of Seal Rocks, By far the greater portion of it is very rough 
hilly country covered with open forests with large tracts of 
typical “brush” and palm-scrub: but there are flats of dense 
Melaleuca scrub and characteristic coastal moors with peaty 
bogs, while a considerable area on the north-western shores of 
the Myall Lakes toward Bungwahl is now open pasture-land. 
From the point of view of a botanist, the district thus in- 
troduced to your Society is the richest treasure-ground it has 
ever been the writer’s good fortune to visit. In the leisure 
hours of 18 months’ residence at Bulladelah, and in the course 
of a regular itinerary through the area referred to, I have 
collected upward of 700 species of indigenous plants, entirely 
exclusive of cellular eryptogams, and with very slight investi- 
gation of grasses, sedges and rushes. 
Among the flowering plants, orchids are in great profusion. 
Within the period abovementioned I have observed 87 
\ species of these fascinating plants. This is considerably more 
than a third of the total number of species known in New South 
Wales, and as it is obvious that there must be others which T 
have not seen, Bulladelah may’ claim to possess one of the 
orchid treasuries of the State. Twenty-one of those known to 
