•' Handbook " he also included a plant gathered by Sir D. Monro in the Nelson 

 Provincial District. But although I have examined a great number of 

 Thehjmitrce from the South Island I have found none with the characters of 

 T. pulcliella, and am inclined to doubt the occurrence of the species to the 

 south of Cook Strait. In fact, I have not seen undoubted specimens of 

 T. pulchella from the south of the Waikato River. North of Auckland it is 

 common on LepfosiJervium-clRd hills, often associated with T. lungifolia, and 

 is particularly abundant between the Bay of Islands and the North Cape. I 

 have not seen it at a greater elevation than 800 ft. 



T. imlchella belongs to the section Macdonaldia, in which the column- 

 wing extends behind the anther, but is shorter than it, and is not hood- 

 shaped; and the lateral lobes, though often toothed or fimbriate, do not possess 

 the dense tufts of cilia so obvious in the section CucuUaria (compare figs. 1 

 and 9 of the accompanying plate). It is one of the handsomest of the New 

 Zealand species, from the large size of the blue-purple flowers, which are 

 often an inch in diameter or even more. 



The centre of distribution of the genus Thelymitra is in Australia, from 

 whence thirty species are known. New Zealand contains eleven, and addi- 

 tional species will be recorded. As already stated, the New Zealand and 

 Australian T. longifolia (or an allied form) occurs in New Caledonia, and 

 there is an outlying species {T. javannica, Blume) in Java. 



Pr.ATE 192a. Thelymitra longifolia, drawn from specimens collected in tlie vicinity of Auckland. 

 Fig. 1, side view of column ; 2 and 3, front views of same ; 4, lateral lobe of column, terminated by a 

 dense mass of cilia ; 5, some of the cilia ; 6, dehisced anther. (All magnified.) 



Plate 192b. Thelymitra pulchella, drawn from specimens collected near Mongonui Harbour. 

 Fig. 7, front view of column ; 8, back view of same ; 9, side view of same ; 10. dehisced anther. (All 

 enlarged.) 



