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Arr, 1900.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 287 
Botany. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF NEW GUINEA. 
‘By F. MANSON BAILEY, F.1S. 
Colonial Botanist. 
Order RUTACEA. 
ly : MELICOPE, Forst. is a 
| fe tthonyi, Bail. (nu. sp.). (After John Mahony.) A slender, straggling 
| ee . Branchlets flattened at the upper nodes, then bluntly 4-angled, soon 
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la tg terete. Leaves 1-foliolate ; leaflet oblong-lanceolate, often slightly 
| dembe about 5in. long, 1% in. broad; sessile upon a petiole of about 1 in.; 
| Boy tous, lateral nerves slender and distant, the apex bluntly acuminate. 
1 peti, ia nite, minute, in very dense short axillary cymes scarcely exceeding the 
| } les, Pedicels about 1 line long. ‘Sepals 4, very minute ; petals 4, about 
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i rife ments flattened, about as long as the petals, margins ciliate. Anthers 
| tack large, Coeci:'4 or less by abortion, globular, 1 ‘line diameter. . Seeds 
|) Sand shining. : . 
Hab, ; Sudest, John Mahony. 
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Order ORCHIDEZ. 
} DIPODIUM, R. Br. 
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| tem, Bail. (n. sp.) (Growth of plant resembling a Pandanus.) (Plates 
| trunk VII. and CLXXXVIIT.) Stems 2 or more feet long, adhering to tree 
| es like some kinds of Pandanus or Freycinetia, often exceeding 1 in, in 
1 the eter, somewhat compressed, the internodes of the lower. naked portion of 
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if ther, 1 to 2 ft. long, sessile and tapering from 23 in. broad to an acute apex ; 
‘tron dinal nerves very prominent, 2 to 3 on either side ot midrib, often with a 
| ae transverse nerve below the middle of the leaf. -Raceme with the peduncle 
1 thay 1} ft. long. Flowers about 12. Bracts of peduncle 2 or 3, distant, larger 
FT ke, Oe subtending the flowers, ovate acuminate, about 23 lines long, glabrous, 
r 0. Pedicel with ovary about 16 lines long, slender, white. Sepals about 1 in. 
if 4 lines broad, oblong, bluntly acuminate, with deep-red blotches on the 
} all faintly showing on the face of each segment. Petals like the sepals, but 
t) .°t- Labellum erect, about § lines long, 3-lobed, the lateral ones reduced 
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i hall white teeth, one on either side of and embracing the base of the 
| hag es the basal spur short and broad, the sides of the middle lobe flatly folded. 
} the, 20m the centre and nearly against each other ; disk plates 3, rosy purple, 
| Gg jeitgins, densely covered with flat white glands, giving a velvety appear- 
| ,,.°0 the face of the lobe.. Column short, thick, white at the base, the upper 
10n yellow. Anther-lid small.. Pollen masses oval, light coloured. 
log : Near Samarai, W. LE. Armit. The accompanying illustration is from a plant I brought 
aay Guinea in 1898, and now (March) flowering in the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane. 
© nearest ally of the present species is D. paludosum, Reichb. f., of India. 
§ ®long, ovate and at length reflexed upon the pedicel, tips inflexed. Stamens _ 
Stems seldom much exceeding }-in. long. Leaves distichous, very close ~ 
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