Petrie. — On Neiu Native Plants. 273 



Rah. Mount Bonpland, 4,000ft. The present species is 

 somewhat closely allied to 0. glandulosa, Hook, f., differing in 

 the larger crenate leaves, the longer and more slender scape 

 and peduncles, the larger and longer flowers, the crenate or 

 shortly-lobed bracts, and the slight pubescence of the scape, 

 bracts, and flowers. 



Carex novcs-zelandics, sp. nov. 



A short reddish-brown species, forming small tufts with 

 stiff erect leaves that are curled at the tips. Culms, 4in. 

 high or less, leafy, slender, terete, smooth. Leaves, always as 

 long as, and usually longer than, the culms, very narrow, 

 plano-convex, or concave above and convex below, smooth 

 above, striate on lower surface, stiff, rather obtuse, curled and 

 twisted at the tip. 



Spikelets 4 or 5, ^in. long, rather stout, erect, the lower- 

 most usually distant, the others crowded, sessile or shortly- 

 peduncled ; uppermost spikelet male only, the rest female 

 with a few male flowers at the base ; bracts as long as the 

 leaves, leaf-like. 



Glumes membranous, broadly-ovate, entire, rather obtuse, 

 nerved and apiculate. 



Utricle biconvex, smooth or faintly ribbed, gradually and 

 equally narrowed at either end, red-brown ; beak smooth, 

 hardly bifid. 



Style-branches, two. 



Rah. Boggy ground at the edge of Lake Te Anau. 

 Gathered February, 1892. 



This plant has much the same appearance as Carex petriei, 

 Cheeseman ; the twisted and curled tips of the leaves readily 

 mark it off from all the other native species. From G. petriei 

 it differs in having two style-branches, much shorter spikelets, 

 narrower and more rigid leaves, and less turgid utricles. 



Gastrodia minor, sp. nov. Plate XX., figs. 5-7. 



A much smaller and more slender plant than Gastrodia 

 cunninghamii, Hooker fil. Stems 8in. to 15in. high, terete, 

 polished, ^in. to ^iri. in diameter near the base ; scales few, 

 forming short oblique subacute sheaths round the stem, the 

 upper ones distant ; the whole plant except the tips of the 

 flowers of a uniform umber-brown colour, not spotted. 



Bacemes lin. to 3in. long, of 1 to 9 pendulous flowers 

 (usually 3 to 5) . Bracts short, rather broad, scarious. Pe- 

 dicels slender, 2 lines long ; ovary as long as the pedicel, 

 ribbed, slightly tuberculate. Perianth 5 lines long, ventri- 

 cose, 5-fid, the very narrow division behind the labellum ex- 

 tending to about one-third the length of the tube, the others 

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