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Hah. High lands near Mount Ruapeku (Tongariro Mountain 

 Range), County of East Taupo ; where specimens were gathered 

 and brought away by a visitor, and given to me in 1879. 



Obs. A species near P. bnxifolia, Hook, f., but the leaves are 

 without lateral nerves, ("so conspicuous and evident in that 

 species and forming a good character," Hook., "Handbook N. 

 Z. Flora ;") the floral leaves are smaller, the flowers very much 

 larger, coloured, with coarser hairs, the filaments very stout 

 and long, and the bark not " black." 



Class II. — Monocotyledons. 

 Oeder I.— ORCHIDE^. 

 Genus 15. Thelymitra, Forst. 

 1. T. cornuta, sp. nov. 



Tuber 3 inches long, sub -J inch thick, cylindrical. Stem 

 erect, 17 inches high, rather slender, with 3 membranaceous 

 acuminate acute adpressed bracts. Leaf single near base, 

 lanceolate, 3 inches long, i inch wide, stout, thickish, semi- 

 grooved, tip sub-acute. Flowers 6, small, rather distant on a 

 3-inch raceme ; pedicels slender, 4-5 lines long ; floral bracts 

 shorter than ovary, 6-7 lines long, ovate-acuminate, acute, much 

 veined. Perianth, petals clear pink, sub-rhomboidal, 4 lines 

 long, obtuse with a slight mucro, obsoletely 5-nerved ; sepals a 

 little larger than petals, oblong-ovate, concave, dull pink with a 

 green centre ; column 2-2^ lines long, rather slender, pink, 

 hooded ; the hood smooth on the back, the base dark-red ; tip 

 bright yellow, emarginate, margins entire or very slightly erose, 

 involute ; the lower lateral margins between apex and stami- 

 nodia produced into 2 little curved pointed horns, one on each 

 side; the two lateral lobes (staminodia) sub-linear-spathulate, 

 erect, bearing a globose bushy tuft of pinkish-white hairs, which 

 rise above the column ; hairs wavy, rugulose, obtuse, slightly 

 knobbed at tips, hyaline with minute circular dots scattered 

 within (not transversely barred, or septate, as in T. nuda) ; 

 anther wholly concealed, erect, orbicular, very apiculate, tip 

 obtuse; rostellum bifid, lobes rounded, margins thickened 

 laciniate and jagged. Ovary long, £-1 inch, narrow obovoid, 

 striate, tapering, trilateral ; angles obtuse, thickish, and largely 

 rounded. 



Jlab. Country near Pouto Point, North Kaipara, West 

 Coast, north of Auckland ; 1885 : Mr. 0. P. Winlcelmann. 



Obs. I. This species differs in several respects, particularly 

 in its column and appendages, from all our known indigenous 

 species ; and also from the Australian and Tasmanian ones. 

 It will naturally range under Beutham's section Cucullariu, its 



