CoLENSO. — Oil Phs5nogams. 319 



semi-whoii 1 liae below flower ; capillary rootlets very fine. 

 Leaves 2 (or 3) at base, narrow linear-spathulate, obtuse, iin.- 

 lin. long, 55^^- (or less) wide, 1-nerved, weak, spreading; petiole 

 long and very narrow. Calyx sepals unequal, cut to base, 

 suborbicular concave, purplish-green, shining, veined; veins 

 simple ; margins undulate, whitish ; the tip of the smaller 

 segment emarginate. Corolla yellowish(?) with purple veins 

 3 lines diameter, upper lip subovate obtuse ; the lower lip 

 sub-3-lobed spreading ; spur ascending transversely obtuse ; 

 anthers large, suborbicular, purple ; style short, stout ; stigma 

 linear, brown. Capsule globose, -^qIti. diameter, very mem- 

 branous, shining. Seed small, pale, oblong, shining, tips 

 rounded, base narrower truncate, sides straight. 



Ohs. This little plant is allied to U. sichshnilis, mihi^-' 

 (also detected in similar situations in the interior Taupo 

 country at a lower altitude), but differing in size, in form and 

 colour of corolla, &c. ; better specimens are, however, much 

 wanted. I received from Mr. Hill a large number of speci- 

 mens, but they were all more or less damaged through having 

 been closely packed, as they were collected in little wet turfy 

 tufts with other small plants. One character, however, was 

 common to them all — that of size and height. 



Class II. MONOCOTYLEDONS. 



Order I. Okchide^. 

 Genus 3. Eolbcphyllum, Thouars. 

 1. B. ichthyostoinuvi, sp. nov. 



Plant small, exDiphytal, prostrate, creeping, densely matted. 

 Stems slender, 3in.-5in. long, tortuous, dry, whitish, longi- 

 tudinally striate, emitting many thickish terete succulent 

 white rootlets, their tips obtuse. Pseudo-bulbs on upper side 

 of stems ^in.-|iu. apart, sessile, ovoid, lin. long and sub- 

 globular, xV^- diameter, wrinkled, glabrous, shining, pale- 

 green. Leaves, 1 to each bulb at top, with a narrow circular 

 sheath at base, oblong and oblong-ovate (sometimes oblong- 

 lanceolate), tip obtuse, sometimes slightly retuse, 1^2 lines 

 long, deeply sulcate, thickish, slightly recurved, minutely and 

 regularly rough-dotted-hairy above, and with minute micro- 

 scopical circular dots below, obsoletely parallel-nerved, 3 

 nerves on each side of midrib visible between the eye and 

 light ; margins closely ciliolate with coarse, stiff, patent, obtuse 

 hairs, petiolate ; petioles short, ^V^- long, stout, glabrous. 

 Flowers very small, few, solitary, scattered, white ; peduncle 

 arising from under bulb, stout, erect, 2 lines long, with a 

 simple sheathing scarious bract near the top ; perianth (iwst 



* Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xvi., p. 334. 



