1 Mar., 1898.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 197 
Botany. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE QUEENSLAND FLORA. 
By F. MANSON BAILEY, F.L.S., 
Colonial Botanist. 
Order ORCHIDEA. 
LIPARIS, Rich. 
L. mowbulana, Bail. (ma. sp.) Plate XVI. Pseudobulbs, almost globose 
in outline, rough, globular, irregular-angular, 3-in. or a little more in diameter, 
the old ones depressed, bearing 1 or 2 linear-lanceolate recurved leaves, from 
2 to 34 in. long and 3 or 4 lines broad, tapering from above the middle to the 
base, end apiculate, longitudinal nerves usually 3 on each side of midrib. 
Racemes half as long again as the leaves, the peduncle portion flattened. 
Flowers white, about 5, bracts lanceolate, about half as long as the pedicel. 
Pedicels with ovary very slender, 3 lines long. Sepals and petals about 3 lines 
long, all narrow, but the latter only about half the width of the former. 
Labellum longer than the other segments, the lower half erect and loosely 
embracing the column, the upper half erecto-patent, cuneate in outline, ending © 
in two truncate somewhat jagged lobes, with an apiculate gland in the sinus. 
No disk-plates or calli. Column slightly shorter than the sepals, winged half- 
way up, then contracted and more or less abruptly incurved and expanding 
again under the anther on either side of the stigma. Anther yellow. 
Hab. : Mowbulan, or Bunya Mountains, J. F. Bailey, who found it forming large flat 
patches upon the trunks of trees. 4 
Order AMARYLLIDEZ. 
CRINUM, Linn. 
C. brevistylum, Bail. (n. sp.) Bulb globular-ovate, 4 to 6 in. 
diameter, not producing a persistent column, but forming an annual crown of 
foliage consisting of about 12 to 14 leaves of a slaty-green. Leaves ensiform, 
erecto-patent, from 2 to over 3 ft. long and 23 in. broad about the middle, then 
gradually tapering to a rather blunt end. Scapes often more than one arising 
from amongst the outer leuves, from 2 to 24 ft. high, compressed, thick, + to 
over 1in broad. Involucral bracts 24 to over 8 in. long, rather blunt, 1 in. 
broad at the base; flowers in umbel from 8 to 10, pedicels thick, shorter, or 
sometimes as long as the ovaries which are about 3-in. long. Perianth white, 
not strongly fragrant, drooping in the bud; tube rigidly erect under the cup- 
shaped open flower, green or greenish, 3 to 45 in. long, more or less angular, 
segments linear-lanceolate, about 2% in. long, $ to 1 in. broad near the centre, 
the outer ones with subulate green tips. Stamens erect, less than one-half the 
length of the segments, upper half of the filaments purple, pink, or in the 
