CoLENSO. — On Neio Indigenous Plants. 389 



Order XLII. Ekiceje. 

 Genus 2. Pernettya, Gaud. 

 1. P. nana, sp. uov. 



A small low shrub of matted growth ; main stems pros- 

 trate under ground, implexed, slender, woody, roothig, 

 blackish; branches numerous, short, fin.-liin. high, erect, 

 simple, sometimes (but rarely) forked, glabrous. Leaves few, 

 small, rather distant, alternate, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate 

 sub 2 lines long, obtuse, thickish, glabrous, dark-green above, 

 paler below, their tips white, minutely mealy; lateral margins 

 sub-sinuato-denticulate,. usually having 2 minute obtuse teeth 

 on each side (when young each with a minute patent hair at 

 its tip), few-veined, veins white and mostly simple, and some- 

 times possessing the mealy appearance of the tips, as also the 

 teeth ; petioles short, stoutish, red. Flowers (large for plant) 

 terminal at tips of branchlets, 3-4 together sub-corymbose ; 

 peduncle sub 2 lines long, stout, glabrous, thickened at 

 top, 2-3 bracteolate at base, with a larger bracteole near the 

 top. Calyx glabrous ; lobes broadly ovate, acute, cut nearly 

 to base, margined red and finely ciliolate, single-veined, en- 

 larging with the ffuit in its growth. Coiolla white, broadly 

 campanulate or cup-shaped, 3| lines long, 3 lines wide ; lobes 

 short, their tips broad obtuse recurved, each triplinervecl ; 

 stamens nearly exserted, anthers appearing at sinuses of lobes ; 

 filaments long (length of style), obspathulate acuminate, 

 1-nerved, white, slender, smooth, minutely and distantly tuber- 

 culate (.sh6 Icnte) ; anthers oval, light reddish-brovai, 2-awned; 

 awns short, stout, spreading, sinus broad; style erect, stoutish, 

 jiink, persistent ; stigma glabrous, slightly tuberculate. 

 Hypogynous scales oblate-orbicular, emarginate. Fruit giobu- 

 Jar, minutely puberulent, 2 lines diameter, 5-grooved, angles 

 rounded ; the tip depressed, umbihcate ; light-coloured dashed 

 with pink streaks. 



Hah. South Island : on the ground, hills near Mount 

 Cook Hermitage; forming large patches, of densely compact 

 growth; January, 1890: il/r. H. Siitcr. 



Class II. MONOCOTYLEDONS. 

 Order I. Okchide.t:. 

 Genus 9. Corysanthes, Br. 

 1. C. orbicalata, sp. nov. 



Plant small, lin.-1-Mn. high, erect; a large sheathing 

 bract at base of stem, and a long acute half-clasping one at 

 base of ovary, 3 lines long. Leaf single, thin, 6-8 lines 

 long, generally elliptic-cordate, sometimes somewhat broadly 



