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Ubs. A species very nearly allied to ./. pusilla, Gaud, (which 

 also grows plentifully in or near the same localities), but is very 

 much smaller, and differs from that species in several particulars 

 (vide descript.). I have occasionally found two perfect stamens 

 issuing from one male perianth ; and in a very few specimens, the 

 female perianth in the upper axils above the male ; and, in one 

 instance, both male and female singly in one upper axil. 



( 'lass II. Monocotyledons. 

 Order I. ORGHIDEiE. 

 Genus 1. Earina, Lindley. 

 1. E. alba, sp. nov. 



Stems stout, 8-10 inches long, sometimes branched at or 

 near base. Leaves alternate, sessile, sub-liuear-acuminate, 

 acute, broadest near base, thickish, rather harsh and sub-rigid ; 

 petioles long, clasping, decurrent, extending to within the petiole 

 below, black margined. Flowers terminal in compound panicles, 

 2-4 inches long, rather close-set, sub-distichous, each sub- 

 panicle usually containing three flowers ; bracts numerous, 

 imbricated, striate, brown, the lower acuminate and fimbriate, 

 the upper obtuse with a small mucro. Perianth pure white, 

 5-6 lines diameter, segments of equal length, spreading, re- 

 curved, obscurely 3-nerved, very obtuse ; sepals ovate-oblong, 

 margins entire ; petals broadly obovate, crenulately notched on 

 the middle of the upper margin ; tip broadly oblong (or sub- 

 5-sided), entire, obtuse or slightly refuse at apex, margins 

 corrugated and incurved, two small ochraceous-yellow spots near 

 the centre of tip, and two small greenish crescent-shaped calli 

 beyond those spots and near the base. Column sub-hooded, 

 tip ochraceous-yellow (exactly same hue as the two spots); 

 appendages overhanging in front below anther, and produced in 

 4 small obtuse teeth and a minute tubercular wing on each side, 

 with 2 minute rnammillary-like dots in front, immediately below 

 stigma. Ovary long, cylindrical, striate, twisted. 



Hab. On edges of rocky cliffs and on dry stony declivities, 

 and about the dry exposed roots of Fagus solandri ; banks of 

 Eiver Mangatawhainui, Seventv-mile Bush, County of Waipawa ; 

 1878-85: W.C. 



<>bs. This plant in appearance closely resembles E. autum- 

 nalis, Hook, fil., of which it may (by some botanists) be con- 

 sidered as a variety. It possesses, however, sundry characters 

 which that species has not, or which, at all events, are not given 

 in any published description of it that I have seen. Indeed, 

 Hook, fil., says of the genus, "disk eglandular;" whereas the 

 disk of this species possesses two crescent-shaped greenish calli. 

 E. autumnalis, which is so very common in the woods at the 

 N., is a larger and fresher-looking plant, with flowers " speckled 

 and sweet-scented,"' and is always epiphytical. Can difference 



