220 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
as originating by hybridisation of Glossodia major with Cala- 
Jenia deformis, but upon learning that, so far as I could ascer- 
tain, the latter was not recorded north of Sydney, he felt that 
this was unlikely. It resembles a Glogsodia, but has the column 
of a Caladenia, and the labellum bears a few yellow calli, and 
is yellow-tipped. The leaf is ascending. 
One of the most striking of the local orchids is to be found 
among the Pterostyles or Green-hoods, of which it is surely 
King—P. Baptistii. I had never seen this plant except in a 
dried state in the National Herbarium at Sydney. It was sup- 
posed to be rare, and in some quarters was regarded as prac- 
tically extinct, for the Port Jackson localities where it was re- 
corded have long been built over, and there were but scant re- 
cords of its existence elsewhere. There was, however, a specimen 
from Port Stephens; therefore as spring approached I kept a 
good look-out. For this happily there was little need. The 
plant may be found throughout the whole of the district em- 
braced in these notes, and in many places it is in great abund- 
ance. Generally speaking, it is about 12 to 15 inches in height, 
but may reach twice that measurement, or be occasionally quite 
dwarf. The basal leaves are in a rosette, the stem leaves usual- 
ly, but not always, reduced to clasping bracts. The single ter- 
minal flower is very large (sometimes over 3 inches from base 
to tip of galea), the galea bent over from about the middle in 
a graceful curve. The lobes of the lower lip extend with fine 
points far. beyond the galea, which toward its summit is as 
often brown as green. The flower is banded longitudinally with 
translucent white and green or brownish markings. Dr. H. L. 
Kesteven found a specimen, now in my herbarium, with two 
fully developed flowers. 
On branches of Tristania laurina overhanging the Cooloon- 
golook River, at Wootton, 14 miles from Bulladelah, I found a 
few plants of a robust Sarcochilus which looked like, and sub- 
sequently proved to be S. divitiflorus. I regard this as not 
only one of the most attractive, but one of the most remarkable 
of our indigenous species. Subsequently to the flowering time 
I found a regular “colony” of exceptionally large plants grow- 
ing high up on Eugenia Ventenatii on the bank of the Myall 
River, two miles above Bulladelah. I moved one of the Wootton 
plants to my bush-house, where it did well. ‘Slender racemes of 
buds push out from the short, stout stem below the crown of 
leaves, and grow to a length of from 6 to 18 inches. The buds 
may number up to 40, or even considerably more. For 2 or 3 
months they remain very small, giving no promise at all of 
