gigantic birds'-nests. The smaller kinds inhabit marshes. We 

 have already published one species from New Zealand at Tab. 

 5175 of this Magazine, and we have now the pleasure of figur- 

 ing a second, also from New Zealand, where it is common on 

 trunks of trees in the northern and middle islands, for which 

 our gardens are indebted to the late lamented Dr. Sinclair. It 

 has flowered copiously with us in a cool greenhouse. 



Descr. Dr. Hooker gives the following account, drawn up 

 from living plants in New Zealand: — " A very large species. 

 Leaves two feet long, spreading and recurved, three inches broad 

 at the base, and there clothed with dense, snow-white, silky, 

 villous wool, glabrous above, silky below, with three strong 

 nerves. Male: Scape stout. Panicle six to eighteen inches 

 long; branches, with the flowers included, one inch across. 

 Flowers very crowded, closely pedicelled. Perianth very large, 

 half an inch long, membranous ; segments linear, obtuse, silky 

 externally. Filaments half an inch long; anthers linear-oblong. 

 Female ■. Scape stout, curved. Panicle with very long, slender 

 (rarely short, stout) branches, eight to twelve inches long. 

 Flowers close-set, fascicled or whorled ; pedicels slender, half an 

 inch long. Perianth much smaller and more scariose than on 

 the male; tube hemispheric; segments recurved. Ovary glo- 

 bose, three-celled ; style straight." Our principal figure repre- 

 sents the male plant. 



Fig. 1 Male flower. 2. Abortive pistil. 3. The same, cut throu-h HUM- 

 Tersely ; the cells are filled with gelatinous fluid only 1—magmJUd. 



