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LXXVIII. Conifers. 



Phyllocladus alpinus. 



A memoir on some points in the morphology of this species, 

 bv Agnes Robertson, D.Sc, is printed in the " Annals of Botany " 

 for July, 1906 (p. 260). 



LXXIX. Orchide.^. 

 Thelymitra ixioides. 



Mrs. H. J. Matthews forwards undoubted specimens of this 

 species collected at Rotorua. 



Thelymitra intermedia. 



To this I refer, with some doubt, a pink-flowered species 

 collected by Mrs. H. J. Matthews in the vicinity of Rotorua. 

 Ill most respec. s it agrees with Berggren's plate and descrip- 

 tion, with the exception that the lateral lobes of the column- 

 wing are not so slender as represented by Berggren. 



Thelymitra decora. 



This species also has been gathered at Rotorua by Mrs. 

 H. J. Matthews. Her specimens are larger and stouter than 

 those collected by myself to the south of Lake Taupo, and 

 have more numerous and rather larger flowers, but the struc- 

 ture of the flowers is precisely the sam.e. 



Pterostylis barbata. 



Among Leptospermum scrub near Cowes, Waiheke Island ; 

 J. H. Harvey ! 



Corysanthes oblonga. 



Mr. R. H. Matthews, of Kaitaia, sends a curious variety 

 with the flowers entirely green, showing no sign of red what- 

 ever. 



LXXXII. LiLIACE.E. 



Cordyline indivisa. 



Summit of Mount London. (Kohukohunui), between the 

 Southern Wairoa and the Firth of the Thames, altitude 

 2,000 fc. , E. Phillipps Turner. The most northerly locality 

 recorded. 



LXXXIV. Palm^. 

 Rhopalostylis sapida. 



In the Manual I have alluded to the fact that branched 

 specimens of the nikau palm are occasio)ia]ly seen. One figured 



