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labellurn broadly ovate-acuminate with a mucro at apex, and 

 all of equal size. Column rather short ; tip recurved, deeply 

 notched, sides of hood produced, with 2 angles, and notched in 

 front between them; dark -brown with yellow margin; the 

 appendages much produced in front, as high or higher than the 

 column, very plumose ; hairs white, branched, closely barred 

 and knobbed at tips ; side wings of column much excised ; 

 stigma large, sub-quadrate, sinuate and slightly laciniate at 

 base ; 2 small erect teeth in front, in centre of column margin ; 

 rostellum globular, prominent ; anther tip long, subulate, obtuse. 



Hab. Glenross, County of Hawke's Bay ; 1885 : Mr. D. P. 

 Balfour. 



Obs. A species having pretty close affinity with T. longifolia, 

 Forst. ; T. nuda, Brown ; and T. nemorosa, Col. ; but differing 

 from them all in several characters. 



Genus 17. Prasophyllum, Br. 

 1. P. pauciflorum, sp. nov. 



Slender, erect ; stem 7 inches high. Leaf-sheath 3 inches 

 longer than spike, narrow, tip thickened, acute, blackish. Spike 

 short, few-flowered (7) ; flowers distant, pedicelled, pedicels very 

 short ; bracts small, truncate with sinuous margin, or notched. 

 Perianth rather small, sub \ inch, spreading, light yellowish- 

 green ; dorsal sepal broadly ovate, acute ; lateral sepals united 

 from middle downwards, acute slightly acuminate, entire not 

 notched ; petals linear, obtuse, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves only 

 reaching half-way; lip small, broadly orbicular-ovate; lamina 

 thin, 3-veined, the 2 outer veins branched, margin entire but 

 slightly sinuate; claw very short; tip recurved with a small 

 yellow globular lump adnate at the bend ; column very short 

 and thickish, with a broad membranous rounded hood at back 

 above anther, margin of hood entire, and 4 minute erect linear 

 lateral staminodia ; ovary short, turgid. 



Hab. Hills, country west of Napier ; 1883: W.C. 



Obs. I have obtained only one specimen of this plant ; and, 

 though early satisfied of its being very distinct from the three 

 published New Zealand species, and also from all the Australian 

 and Tasmanian ones described by Bentham in " Flora Austra- 

 lieusis," I wished to get more specimens before describing it, 

 as there may be some variation in size and number of flowers ; 

 not, however, b^ing successful, I now make it known. 



Genus 18. Orthoceras, Brown. 



1. O. rubrum, sp. nov. 



Root, a small fusiform white tuber. Stem rigid, erect, 

 slender, smooth, 1 foot high, greenish dashed with purple-red, 



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