1 Aprin, 1898.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 285, 
Botany. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE QUEENSLAND FLORA. 
By F. MANSON BAILEY, F.L.S., 
Colonial Botanist. 
Order ‘MYRTACEZ, 
EUGENIA. 
E. Bungadinnia, Bail. (n. sp.) Aboriginal name at Somerset, Jardine. 
Tree of from 30 ft. to 40 ft. in height, stem diameter about 3 ft. bark 
loose, inclined to -be papery (EF. L. Jardine). Bark upon the thick 
branches peeling off in very thin cinnamon-brown papery flakes; branchlets 
often flattened, the bark dark, hard, and smooth. Leaves lanceolate obtusely 
acuminate, tapering from above the middle often to the branch, or forming a 
petiole a few lines iong, 2 to over 3 in. long, 4 to Lin. broad, of a some- 
what coriaceous texture, the parallel lateral veins and the intermediate 
anastomosing veinlets faintly prominent and joining the intramarginal one 
near the edge, both faces dotted, the underside rather paler, and thus the dots 
more plainly visible. The loose fruit received with the shoot-specimens were 
transversely oval or oblong, and measured 2 in. broad and 14 in. high. The 
remains of flower seen on the fruit 2 to 3 lines diameter. Calyx-lobes 4, 1 line 
high, 14 lines broad. Sinan seem to be in bundles of two or three, about 
3 lines long.’ Style stout, about 6 lines long. Jruit examined 1-seeded. 
Hab : Somerset, /. L. Jardine, who says that, as this is one of the first fruits to ripen, 
and coming at a time of scarcity, the natives almost live on it. 
A NEW SPECIES FROM NEW GUINEA. 
Order ORCHIDEA, 
DENDROBIUM, Sw. 
D. viridiflorum, Bail. (n. sp.) Stem, the one seen yellowish, about 
4, in. long (said to attain 6 in.), from a bulbose base, slender, not more than a» 
line in diameter, then increasing to 4 lines broad, compressed, éontracted at: 
the nodes, the internodes 4-in. long and prominently corrugated. Leaves 
several along the broad part of the stem, rather pale-green, somewhat twisted, 
linear, about 2 in. long, 4-lines broad, obliquely emarginate at the end, with a 
midrib, and a longitudinal nerve on either side midway between the midrib and 
the margin, erecto-patent «nd attached horizontally to the thin edge of the 
stem; sheaths persistert, turning a rather dark-brown. Flowers nodding, 
_ green (except the labellum and column), solitary. Peduncle at the base of 
the leaf-sheath under the leaf at the same node, about 5 lines long, slender, 
recurved. Sepals reflexed ovate lanceolate, dorsal 2 lines long, the lateral ones! 
same length but elongating and with the base of the column forming a spur, 
nearly as long as the pedicel. Petals green, with a very narrow white margin, 
linear, rather blunt, long as the sepals, but scarcely more than half as broad.’ 
Labellum white, much larger than the other segments, fleshy, 3-lobed, lateral 
lobes erect, oblong, tomentose on the upper margin on the inside, tapering» 
towards the base, the upper end truncate, rather distant from the middle lobe’ 
which when spread out is very broadiy-cordate and apiculate; disk-plates 2, 
thick and rather high along the upper portion of the claw, and extending 
about half-way up between the middle lobes. Column short, thick, and white. | 
Anther-lid flattish, cream-coloured; rostellum thick, 2-lobed, or emarginate: 
Pollen masses amber-coloured. 
Hab: New Guinea. The above description is from a specimen received from Mr. Hugh 
Dixson, of Sydney, which was taken from a plant flowering’during November last in his orchid- 
house. He writes me that he had the plant from Captain Steele, of the “Ivanhoe,” about 
eighteen months ago. f : ete 
