244 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Orchidee. 
Has. Very abundant throughout the Islands, Banks and Solander, etc., to the Southern extreme, 
Lyall. 
Stems stout or slender, with a membranous sheath at the base, sheathed above the leaf, a span to 23 feet high. 
Tubers elongate, rarely rounded. Leaf with a long sheath, and thick linear or linear-lanceolate lamina, very variable 
in length and breadth. Flowers two to twelve, 3-13 inch long, sessile or on slender pedicels, bractese ovate or lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, as long as the flower, or shorter. Leaves of the perianth 4-3 inch long, ovate or lanceolate, acute 
or acuminate, dull purple or yellowish. Column rounded at the summit, bifid. Staminodia shorter than the 
column, with two projecting feathery teeth.—I have examined this plant very carefully in its living state, collecting 
handfuls of it in my daily walks about the Bay of Islands, in its many different forms, and have compared 150 
dried specimens from various parts of both Islands, and can find no specific difference between the little slender one- 
or two-flowered plant with broad sepals, yellowish flower, and linear leaf, and the great stout form, 2 feet high, 
with broad leaf, ten or twelve flowers, nearly 14 inch long, and lanceolate sepals; the form of the column and 
staminodia is the same throughout. My 7. stenopetala (Fl. Antarct.) of Lord Auckland’s Group is probably a 
variety of this. 
2. Thelymitra imberbis, Hook. fil.; gracilis, caule paucifloro, folio lineari, floribus erectis parvis 
flavis, bracteis ovario brevioribus, sepalis petalisque late obovato-oblongis acutis, staminodiis columne 
eeguilongis apice crenatis nudis v. obscure fimbriatis. 
Haz. Northern Island. Bay of Islands, etc., Colenso, Sinclair, etc. 
Stems slender, 4 inches to 1 foot high. Leaf narrow linear. Flowers few, small. Bractee broad, acuminate, 
shorter than the ovary. Perianth yellow, + inch long; sepals and petals broad, acute. Column as long as the blunt 
crenate or fimbriate staminodia. 
3. Thelymitra pulchella, Hook. fil.; caule gracili 3-5-floro, folio anguste lineari, perianthii foliolis 
late obovatis acutis, labello obcuneato, staminodiis erectis ultra columnam porrectis apice fimbriatis den- 
tatisve. 
Haz. Northern and Middle Islands, Colenso. Otago, Lyall. Nat. name, “ Maikaika,” Lyall. 
Tubers small, with long fibres at the base of the stem, on which other tubers are formed. Stem slender, 1 foot 
high. Leaf very narrow. Flowers glaucous, large, pale purple, very handsome ; sepals and petals obovate, acute. 
Lip broadly obovate, truncate, or wedge-shaped. Column shorter than the erect toothed or fimbriate staminodia. 
This is a handsome and very distinct form in the structure and length of the staminodia; I have fifteen very good 
specimens, but it is probable that it will be found to pass into T. Forsteri, through the following. 
4. Thelymitra wniflora, Hook. fil.; folio lineari, caule 1- rarius 3-floro, floribus erectis, sepalis pe- 
talisgue obovato-oblongis acutis, labello obovato, staminodiis erectis columne equilongis apice insequaliter 
bidentatis. 7. Antarct. p. 10. 
Has. Middle and Southern Islands. Milford Sound and Port Preservation, Zyall. 
A smaller species than the foregoing, a span high. Leaf linear. Flowers erect, usually solitary. Ovary pyri- 
form, with a short bractea. Sepals and petals obovate-oblong, acute. Zip obovate. Staminodia as long as the 
column, unegually toothed, rarely entire. —A very southern form, originally found in Lord Auckland’s Group. 
5. Thelymitra pauciflora, Br.; gracillima, folio longissime lineari, caule 1-3-floro, perianthii flavidi 
foliolis anguste lanceolatis acuminatis, staminodiis elongatis ultra columnam longe porrectis plumosis, 
anthera mucronata. Br. Prodr. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. 
Has. Northern Island, Colenso. 
I have four specimens of this pretty little plant, which are all of a very slender habit, with narrow ovaria, and 
lanceolate yellow sepals. Staminodia very long, slender, erect, curving, much longer than the column, feathery at 
