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them and the Tasmanian and §. American species, which all have serrated 
leaves. The growth, habit and general appearance of this species (F. 
apiculata), with its thin and scattered leaves and flattened spreading 
branches, is very much like that of the northern variety of F. fusca, from 
Kaitaia near the North Cape, which I have ever supposed to be distinct 
from the Fagus of the East Coast (Poverty Bay), as well as from the 
plant of Whangarei (Bream Bay) ;* though at present those three (vars. ?) 
are all classed under F. fusca. I have never, however, seen the northern- 
most plant in flower or fruit. 
Class II. MonocoryLEDONS. 
Orper I. ORCHIDEA. 
Genus 8. Bolbophyllum, Thouars. 
Bolbophyllum tuberculatum, sp. nov. 
Plant epiphytal, forming irregular patches on upper forks of large trees 
(Dacrydium cupressinum) ; roots 2-3 inches long, stout ; leaves linear-oblong, 
. 8 lines long, 2 lines broad, acute, sub-apiculate, entire, glabrous, dark-green 
on upper surface, of a lighter-green below, and there minutely and closely 
dotted with round greyish dots, flat or slightly involute, thickish but not 
fleshy, having 8-10 parallel veins which are transversely netted, keeled ; 
stipe stoutish, 1 line long; bulbs ovoid, 3-33 lines long, turgid, ridged ; 
ovary oblong, 2 lines long, glabrous, greenish-white, tuberculated in rows, 
tubercles blunt, reddish; scape 6-8 lines long, springing from rhizome 
below base of bulb, slender, turgid and sub-pyriform at base, reddish, muri- 
cated, bearing a short raceme of 2-3 flowers; lowers alternate, rather dis- 
tant on short pedicels, + line long, each having a bract at its base; bracts - 
sessile rather more than half-clasping, deltoid-acuminate with a produced 
stout obtuse tip. 
Hab. In forests near Petane, Hawke’s Bay, 1888: Mr. A. Hamilton. 
Obs.—A species very distinct from our long known and common B. 
pygmaum, Lindl. ; apparently rare, though possibly confounded with that 
species. It is a much larger plant of similar appearance and habit. I 
regret that I have not yet seen new and perfect flowers. 
enus 9. Corysanthes, Brown. 
Corysanthes hypogea, sp. nov. 
Plant very small, terrestrial, tender, succulent; leaf single, 5-8 lines 
diameter, membranous, shining, much veined, veins largely anastomosing 
with longitudinal dots in the interspaces, cordate-reniform, 8-lobed at tip, 
middle lobe produced, acute acuminate, side margins sinuate with a single 
notch on both sides near base, auricles large, distant, subhastate, very 
blunt; light green above, midrib and marginal spots purple; silvery below 
* See “ Tasmanian Journal of Science,” vol. ii., p. 234, 
