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Pannaria ciliolata, Mnt.; sterilis. he epithallus is composed of rows of small 
quadrangular cells, sharply defined. Gonimia cerulescent, rather large, 
‘006 — Ol mm. broad. hallus beneath with pale radicles in bundles. As the 
specimen is barren, I do not care to separate it from Montague’s plant; besides 
I possess merely a scrap of the latter in a miserable condition. 
Lecidea | subcerulea, Strn. Thallus thin, continuous, pallid or pale greenish ; 
apothecia brown, “4 —-8 mm, girdled with a rather prominent, whitish, entire 
margin ; spore solitary, colourless, oblong, divided into brick-like cellules, ‘06 — 
‘09 xX ‘012 — ‘018 mm; paraphyses distinct, filiform, slender, few, branched 
towards the apex, which is faintly coloured and a little club-shaped ; hypothecium 
a sordid blue, finally fulvescent, subtended by a bluish continuous stratum. 
The hypothecium has a bluish (not purplish) tint in younger apothecia, 
which changes to a dirty greenish colour, and this ultimately becomes fulvescent. 
The continuous blue stratum beneath the hypothecium is also peculiar. 
Hymenium, especially the thece, cwrulescent with iodine, the paraphyses 
scarcely tinted, while the spores (under the same reagent) are flavescent. On 
bark. 
Arthonia varia, 4ch. Jienicola. 
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CONTRIBUTION TO THE FLORA OF NEW GUINEA. 
By F. MANSON BAILEY, F,1,S 
Colonial Botanist, 
Order ORCHIDER, 
ORNITHOCHILUS, Wall. 
0. Moretoni, n.sp. (After Hon. M. H. Moreton.) Stems short, ‘solitary, or 
slightly clustered. Leaves distichous, thick, recurved, usually channelled above, 
obtuse and unequally-emarginate, 2 to 3 in. long and about 1 in. broad, pale. 
Racemes lateral, peduncle with rhachis about 13 stay long, stout; flowers deep- 
yellow, scattered, small, on short pedicels. Bracts about 1 line long, triangular 
with elongated points. Flower-bud globose, 13 lines diameter ; spur spreading 
prominent on the bud, about 14 lines long; pedicels 2 lines long. Sepals oblong, 
thick, about 13 lines long. Petals scarcely exceeding 1 line, almost rotund. 
Labellum sessile, 3-lobed, lateral ones broad and erect, embracing the column, 
their upper margins thin and whitish; terminal lobe yellow, thick, saccate. 
Column very short, broadly winged. Anther-lid beaked.  Pollen-masses 2, 
globose, amber-coloured. 
Hab. : On the trunk and branches of trees, Samarai, New Guinea. Described from a plant 
now flowering in Lord Lamington’s plant-house. Under more favourable conditions, itis likely 
the flowers might be larger than above stated. 
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PLANTS REPUTED POISONOUS TO STOCK. 
By F. MANSON BAILEY, F.1.S., 
Colonial Botanist. 
SCARLET BLOOD ROOT (HAMODORUM COCCINEUM, R.Br.) 
Hamoporum is the typical genus of the order Hamodoracex; it contains about 
17 species, 4 of which are met with in Queensland, usually on damp somewhat 
swampy land ; the leaves are mostly flat, long, and narrow, arising from a more 
or less thick, reddish-brown or nearly black, short underground stem; the 
flowering stems are more or less branched. The flowers are black, red, or 
greenish. The species under notice is the most showy of all; its flowers are 
numerous, in compact, terminal, corymbose panicles, upon more or less branching 
