GunniA.—Perianthium ringens. Sepala herbacea, lateralia postica, sub- 
falcata, erecta, ungui labelli lineari longe producto adnata. Petala herbacea, sub- 
lanceolata, obtusa, ab ungue columns: omninô libera, cum sepalo altero distincto 
pendulo parallela. Labellum carnosum, ungue longé producto lineari erecto, cum 
basi columnz continuum, bilobum, anticê cornutum, mucrone inflexo, disco tuber- 
culatum. Columna nana, semiteres, aptera. Pollinia 4, in paribus globosis coadu- 
nata; retinaculo lineari.  Rostellum bifidum. — — Herba epiphyta ; radicibus 
longis tortuosis supra fruticum ramos repentibus. Folia lanceolata, falcata, disticha, 
basi, articulata. Racemus simplex, strictus, foliorum longitudine. 
Sp. 1. Gunnia australis. 
Hab. in Jnsula Van Diemen, in sinu Emu, Backhouse. (hab. s. sp. comm. 
cel. Gunn.) 
Tota planta vix 2 pollices excedens. Sepala et petala luteo-viridia. Labellum 
verosimiliter album, v. leviter rubescens, lobis lateralibus oblongis obtusis; tuber- 
culis 4, luteis, quorum 2 exteriores majores. 
We have named this most curious plant after our liberal correspon- 
dent, Ronald L. Gunn, Esq. who is now examining the vegetation of 
Van Diemen's Land, with equal skill and assiduity. The genus is 
nearly related to Chiloschista. 
EARINA. (eapıvoc.)—Sepala erecta, egualia, acuta, membranacea, carinata. 
Petala carnosa, obtusata.  Labellum carnosum, posticum, cucullatum, trilobum, 
disco nudo, cum columna continuum et subparallelum. Columna teres, nana, stig- 
matis obligui labio inferiore prominulo. Clinandrium proclive. Anthera bilocularis. 
Pollinia 4, per paria coherentia, collateralia. Herba caulescens, rhizomate 
articulato, repente. Folia linearia, disticha, vaginantia. Flores parvi, paniculati, 
bracteis cartilagineis, striatis, cucullatis. 
Sp. 1. Earina mucronata. 
Epidendrum autumnale. Forst. prodr. n. 319. 
Cymbidium autumnale. Swartz. nov. act. ups. 6.72. Willd. sp. pl. 5. 98. 
Hab. in Nova Zelandia. (hab. s. sp. comm. cel. Cunningham.) 
Rhizomata inter muscos mortuos repentia, articulata. Caules ascendentes, palmares, pedales- 
que, penne corvinze crassitudine, maculati, basi vestigiis laceris vaginarum vestiti, Folia lineari- 
ensiformia, apice leviter obliqua, mucronulata. Flores e bracteis rigidis cucullatis mucronatis erum- 
pentes, parvi, ovario recto costato bracteolarum longitudine. Sepala omnia libera, angusta, mucro- 
nata, carinulata. Petala latiora, carnosa, obtusiora, zquilonga. Labellum posticum, carnosum, 
cucullatum, inappendiculatum, basi liberum, cum columna continuum et parallelum, trilobum, 
dum ; lobo intermedio bipartito laciniis oblongis crenulatis mucrone intermedio. Columna sub- 
erecta, nana, antica, teres, clinandrio subcucullato membranaceo-marginato ; stigmate excavato, 
rostello obtuso. Anthera ovata, 2-locularis. Pollinia 4, per paria coherentia, cereacea, collate- 
ralia, materie viscidà rostello adhzreutia. : 
For fine specimens of this we are indebted to Mr. Cunningham, 
who observed it ** growing commonly in moist woods upon the shores 
ofthe Bay of Islands, New Zealand, on mossy rocky banks, and on 
the limbs of trees, flowering in September and October, which in New 
Zealand is the season of spring.” From the latter circumstance we 
have contrived the generic name. 
This genus belongs to Malaxidez, and is related to Celogyne and 
Dilochia, of the latter of which in particular it hes much the habit, 
a on a smaller scale. From the former its wingless column, 
an ‘from the latter the number of its pollen masses, sufficiently dis- 
tinguish it, independently of other points of difference. 
