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Title: Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants, both indigenous and naturalised. To which are added, where known, the aboriginal and other vernacular names; with numerous illustrations, and copious notes on the properties, features, &c., of the plants
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, Frederick Manson, 1827-1915
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: Brisbane, A. J. Cumming, government printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rect or slightly incurved, tapering tothe end, the 2-valved cells occupying the whole inner face. Pollen-masses granular or mealy. Rostellum very short. Terrestrialglabrous herb, with an ovoid tuber, few narrow leaves, and severalsessile flowers. The genus is limited to the single Australianspecies, found also in New Zealand. 1. O. strictum, R. Br., Prod. 317; Benth., Fl. Austr. vi. 332.—Stem rigid, erect, 1 to il/2 ft. high. Leaves several near the base,linear, 3 to 6 in. long, or one or two outer ones short and lanceo-late, and 2 or 3 long sheaths with short erect laminae above theleaves. Flowers distant, erect, in an interrupted spike, the sub-tending bracts sheathing, acute, sometimes scarcely exceeding theovary, sometimes much longer than the dorsal sepal. Dorsalsepal broad and very concave, much incurved, acute or obtuse,about l/2 in. long, greenish or white outside, brown purple oryellowish inside; lateral sepals antenna-like, slightly clavate, 848 ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 975
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Ct w: 975. LlNDS.TiA FLABELLULATA, DryCtlld., var. MULTIPINNULATA, Bail.(A) Sterile pinnule, (B) fertile pinnule. ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 849 -;_> to nearly I in. long; petals thin, not 2 lines long, truncatenotched or toothed at the end. Labellum 3 to 4 lines long, thelateral lobes broad and oblique, the middle lobe twice as long andovate, the callus between the lateral lobes broad and prominent,but variable in shape. Lateral lobes of the column often nearlyas long as the petals.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 512; Reichb. f.Beitr. 14; Fitzg. Aus. Orchids cum Ic. pict. 0. Solandri, Lindl.I.e.; Diuris Novcc-Zelandicc, A. Rich. Fl. Novse Zel. 163, t. 25.Hab.: Noosa, H. A. Longman, Oct. 1912. The Queensland plant represents a very robust growth in allits parts. Order GRAMINEiE. P. 603.—Paspalum : After platycaule, Poir., add :— *virgatum, Linn.—South America. This grass, for some fewyears past cultivated in Queensland, is now becomingnaturalised in several localities. P. 632.—Er

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