Bulbophylium.] ORCHIDES. 665 
minutely echinulate above, naked and longitudinally nerved beneath. 
Peduncles solitary from the base of the pseudobulbs, very short, 
4+in. long, 1-flowered; bract minute. Flowers very minute, 
whitish. Upper sepal narrow-ovate, acute; lateral rather larger, 
broadly triangular. Petals shorter than the sepals, oblong, sub- 
acute. Lip clawed on to the projecting foot of the column; claw 
long; lamina ovate, obtuse, thickened, disc with indistinct ridges. 
Ovary broadly oblong, gibbous, minutely echinulate.—A. Cunn. 
Precur. 0. 317; Raoul, Choir, 41; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 240; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 263. 3B. ichthyostomum, Col. in Trans. N.Z. 
Inst. xxvi. (1894) 319. Dendrobium pygmeum, Smith in Rees 
Cyclop. xi. n. 27. 
NortH AND SoutH IstAnps: From the North Cape to Otago; in the South 
Island chiefly on the western side. Sea-level to1500ft. November—February. 
Ido not see upon what grounds Mr. Colenso has separated his B. ichthyo- 
stomum. The type specimens in his herbarium appear to me to be typical 
B. pygmeum. 
3. EARINA, Lindl. 
Epiphytes. Stems tufted, simple, compressed; pseudobulbs. 
wanting. Leaves distichous, alternate, narrow-linear. Flowers 
rather small, in terminal simple or branched bracteate racemiform 
panicles. Sepals about equal, spreading, free. Petals similar to 
the sepals. lip affixed to the base of the column or its slightly 
produced foot, 3-lobed; lateral lobes small or large; middle lobe 
broad, entire or emarginate or 2-lobed. Column short, stout, some- 
times produced at the base. Anther terminal, lid-like, 2-celled ; 
pollinia 4, waxy, aggregated in pairs in each cell, free or cohering 
at the base by a short viscid appendage. Capsule oblong. 
Besides the two species found in New Zealand, which are endemic, there 
are four others from the Pacific islands. 
Slender. Panicles slender; flowers remote. Lip deeply 
3-lobed ; disc eglandular ty ae oe 
Stout. Panicles stiff; flowers close. Lip very obscurely 
3-lobed ; disc with 2 ridges .. ae Sic ac 
1. H. mucronata. 
2. H. suaveolens. 
1. E. mucronata, Lindl. in Bot. eg. sub. t. 1699.—Rhizome 
creeping. Stems numerous, 1-3 ft. long, slender, simple, pendulous 
or rarely erect, smooth, compressed and 2-edged, spotted. Leaves 
3-6in. long, 4-4in. broad, narrow-linear, acuminate, flat, smooth, 
thin but coriaceous, very finely striate. Panicle terminal, slender, 
sparingly branched, 2—5in. long, many-flowered ; bracts clasping, 
striate. Flowers rather distant, sessile, tin. diam. Sepals and 
petals linear-oblong, spreading, obtuse, pale-yellow. Lip darker 
yellow with a brownish-orange spot at the base, deeply 3-lobed ; 
middle lobe broader than long, again divaricately 2-lobed; disc 
eglandular. Column short, stout. Pollinia attached at the base 
to a short caudicle. Capsule oblong, tin. long.—A. Cunn. Precur. 
