Cotenso.—On the Botany of New Zealand. 387 
and sometimes dashed with a purple hue; petiole 4-1} inches long, white, 
often pinkish, with a sheathing truncate bract at base; peduncle short, 1-2 
lines long, bibracteate close to base of flower, the front bract much smaller 
linear, the hind one ovate-oblong, both obtuse; flowers 3-4 lines diameter, 
much veined, dorsal sepal arched, closely clasping, subobovate-spathulate, 
narrowest at base, rounded and slightly sinuate or subapiculate at apex, 
green with a purple median line ; lateral sepals and petals linear acuminate, 
very narrow filiform, upper pair # inch long, lower pair hair-like, 4 lines 
long; lip large, dark blood-red above with darker stripes, greenish below 
‘ spotted with red, bi-lobed at top, lobes rounded entire, 2-3 deep laciniations 
or ragged lobes below, with the sides much cut and jagged and incurved, a 
delicate circular bordered ear-like aperture on both sides immediately behind 
bases of petals. 
Hab. Among mosses, steep cliffy sides of dry hills, Fagus forests 
near Norsewood, Waipawa County; 1880 (plentifully but barren); 1882 
(a few capsules long past flowering); and 1883, September, in flower: 
W.C. 
Obs.—I have known this plant for some years, but never found it in 
flower until the spring of 1883, mainly owing to its peculiar manner of 
growth, and its very early flowering; for while its one small leaf is spread 
flat on its mossy bed, its delicate flower is 1-2 inches below the surface, 
and never appears above during its flowering, though afterwards (in a few 
observed instances) its capsule is shown just above the surface, owing to 
the elongation of the peduucle after flowering, which habit is also common 
to the genus. It grows pretty thickly scattered in beds, showing its small 
glistening leaf just above the mosses and débris of fallen Fayus leaves 
(F. solandri), but flowering specimens are very scarce, not one plant in — 
twenty bearing a flower. A species possessing close affinity with C. triloba, 
Hook. fil. 
` Corysanthes papillosa, sp. nov. 
Plant small, 2-34 inches high. Leaf 3-13 inches diameter, membra- 
nous, finely and regularly papillose on upper surface, orbicular-cordate ; 
auricles broad and largely rounded overlapping petiole, slightly retuse and 
apiculate at tip, much veined; veins anastomosing with an intramarginal 
vein running all round, light-green with (sometimes) a purple midrib and 
spots near margin; petiole 3-2 inches long ; peduncle short, 8-4 lines long, 
variously situated—springing from near base of long petiole—from the 
middle—and from the top near leaf, purple spotted, bibracteate at base of 
ovarium ; bracts small, unequal, the front one very minute, white, the back 
one much larger, ovate-acuminate, green. Flower + inch diameter, upper 
22 
