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flowers of some plants white. Anthers narrow, }-in. long, style enclosed in the 
tube and only about two-thirds its length, the upper part purplish; stigma 
obtusely lobed. 
Prate.—Fig. 2: Showing flower seen from above; Fig. 3: side view; and Fig. 4: tube open 
to expose style. ‘ 
Hab. : Turtle Island. Bulbs obtained in June, 1897. The plants grow on the sandy patches 
above high-water mark, and their presence was traced by the dried foliage which was lying flat 
upon the sand. The island-grown leaves were no larger than those on the plants at present 
flowering in Brisbane. Of these, three in number, the filaments of two are white, of the other 
purple or pink, This, however, may not prove constant. As an ornamental plant, this new 
species is worthy of cultivation. This species agrees in some respects with that lost species, 
C. brachyandrum, Herb., but not in my opinion sufficiently to allow being placed under that 
name. Mr. Baker gives a description in his excellent Handbook of Amaryllidee; and Mr. 
Bentham, in Flora of Austr. vi., 454, refers to the plant; but neither of these authors saw 
specimens, and both speak of the species as lost. Mr. Baker’s note in Gard. Chron., July, 
1881, is: ‘A native of tropical Australia, introduced to Calcutta by Dr. Carey, and sent by him to 
Dean Herbert about 1820. It was soon lost from cultivation, and was never figured, and we have 
not been able to match it amongst the numerous dried specimens received from tropical Australia 
of late years.” Mr. Bentham refers to Bot. Mag. t. 2121, as a figure of C. brachyandrum. This 
is also followed by Baron Miiller; but the plate in question represents another species, I think 
it probable that Mr. Herbert’s plant was not Baloceits to Australia, or at Jeast from the 
Queensland portion of the continent. 
C. pestilentis, Bail. (n. sp.). Plate XVII., Fig. 1; showing two separate 
flowers. Bulb ovate-globular, 3 or 4 in. diameter, usually situated 10 or more 
inches below the surface of the ground. Leaves deep-green, linear, 2 or more 
ft. long, 1 to 1} in. broad, texture firm, margin scabrous. Scape 1 to 14 ft. 
high, compressed. Flowers pure white or slightly blushed on the outside, 
about 10 in each umbel. Inyolucral bracts about 3 in. long and #-in. broad at 
the base, sometimes tapering to a narrow point, sometimes almost linear with 
a broader apex. Pedicels } to # in. long, ovaries beaked, about of equal 
length with the pedicels. Perianth-tube 34 in. long. Segments of limb 3 or 
4 in. long and lin. broad about the middle, the outer with points subulate. 
Filaments white, not declinate, about half as long as the perianth-segments, 
anthers lunate about 4 lines long. Style slender, nearly the length of the 
segments, and slightly green in the upper half. Stigma minute. 
Hab. : Bulloo River, J. F. Bailey. Twas led to give the above name to the present species 
from the fact that persons camping in places where it is flowering in quantities being apt to be 
seized with violent yomiting. I have myself felt unwell from the odour of a single flower in a 
room. The species is very near one mentioned by Mr. Baker under the name (, angustifolium, 
var. blandum, also OC. arenarium, B. Herb., in Bot. Mag. t. 2531. This is placed by Mr. Bentham 
in Flora Austr. under C. flaccidum. 
Order FUNGI. 
PHYLLOSTICTA, Pers. 
P. Uvariz, Berk. Spots subcircular or irregular, brown in the centre, 
obscurely margined. Perithecia very small, black, sporules ellipsoid or 
subglobose, 5 to 10 p long, hyaline.—Sace. Syll. Fung. iii., 59. 
Hab: Somerset. On leaves of Uvaria membranacca, not previously recorded from Queens- 
land. First met with on cultivated plants of another Anonaceous plant, Asimina triloba, an 
American tree bearing an edible fruit. 
