CoLenso.—On the Botany of New Zealand. 835 
green ; petioles white, semi-transparent, flat. Scape 2-81 inches High, 
simple, filiform ; flowers 1 (sometimes, but rarely, 2, only one such specimen 
seen), pedicels very slender, about + line long, bracts at top of scape 5, ovate- 
acuminate; sepals large, inflated, sub-orbicular in outline, the upper one 
very slightly sinuate, margins entire; corol/a purple, strongly-veined, 3-4 
lines diameter, upper lip small, cuneate, retuse, the lower one somewhat 
circular in outline (¿.e., presenting the broad segment of a circle), entire. 
Hab. ‘In swampy grounds at Tapuaeharuru," interior (Taupo dis- 
trict), 1880: Mr. 4. Hamilton. 
Obs.—This species seems to have some slight affinity with U. lateriflora, 
Br., a Tasmanian species. Some allowance will have to be made for my 
description of the corolla of this plant, as I find it almost an impossibility 
to dissect it satisfactorily when in a dried state, particularly when the 
specimens have been closely pressed. 
Orper LXX. CUPULIFERA. 
Genus 1. Fagus, Linn. 
Fagus apiculata, sp. nov. 
A tall handsome tree, 40 feet (and more) high, erect, of nio E 
shape ; trunk 2 feet diameter ; bark of trunk pale, smoothish ; branches 
opposite, regular, horizontal, plane, spreading, bark darkish brown, 
studded with lighter coloured spots; branchlets pubescent. Leaves 
not crowded, rather distant, regularly disposed, sub-membranaceous, 
glabrous, broadly oblong-lanceolate, 1 inch long, entire, minutely crenu- 
late, finely reticulated, margined, strongly apiculate, the point hard, 
obtuse, petiolate, slightly and finely pubescent on petioles and beneath ; 
colour light-green ; petioles 1-14 lines long; bracts, outer glabrous, brown, 
shining, ovate-acuminate,—inner green, narrower and longer, obtuse, with 
scarious and ciliate edges. Male flowers lateral, on smaller slender branch- 
lets, single, alternate, 2-4 (or more) near each other; peduncle slender, 
2-21 lines long, red, glabrous, or with a few weak scattered hairs ; perianth 
cup-shaped, inflated, glabrous, whitish with pink margin, semi-pellucid, 
veined, largely 5-toothed, teeth obtuse ; anthers 12-14, linear-oblong, apicu- 
late, loosely exserted on long fla; slender filaments, nodding. Female 
flowers (immature), small, axillary, sessile in axil of leaf above the male 
flowers, ovate, downy ; styles brown, exserted. 
Hab. In forests between Matamau and Danneverke, County of Wai- 
pawa, 1883: W.C. 
Obs.—The discovery of this very distinct species of Fagus has much 
pleased me, as it supplies a required link between our known New Zealand 
species with large serrated leaves (F. fusca and F. menziesii) and our small 
* entire leaved species (F. solandri and F. cliffortioides), and also between 
