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sepal suboblong-lanceolate, 23 lines broad, acuminate, acute, projecting far 
beyond the lip (sometimes 24 lines), recurved at tip, very thin, 5-nerved 
longitudinally, greenish-white spotted with purple-red; lateral sepals very 
filiform, 6-9 lines long, acute, whitish ; lateral petals about 2 inches long, 
somewhat filiform but stoutish, obtuse, cylindrical, twisted, minutely spotted 
and coloured purple-red above for half of their length, white below; lip 
large orbicular, 4 inch (or more) in diameter, deeply bilobed above, spread- 
ing, plain, neither recurved nor involute, margins rounded entire above 
with a single slight notch at top on each lobe, very minutely undulate or 
finely and slightly toothed, retuse and apiculate below, papillose within, 
transparent, much veined ; colour, dark purple-red above, whitish spotted 
with purple-red below ; ovarium subangular, sulcated, purple striped. 
Hab. In various parts of Hawke’s Bay, among mosses in ravines, 
shaded woods in the interior, 1850-1880: IV.C. Glenross, near Napier, 
1883: Mr. D. P. Balfour. 
Obs.—A fine species closely allied to C. macrantha, Hook. fil., but very 
distinct. Also, having affinity with C. fimbriata, Lindl., an Australian and 
Tasmanian species. 
Thelymitra formosa, sp. nov. 
Stem erect, very stout, 12-14 inches high, 8 lines diameter, tinged red 
with leaf bracts and bracteoles; two sheaths below leaf, scarious, truncate 
obtuse pointed and 2-nerved ; 1-2 foliaceous bracts above leaf, 24 lines long 
very acuminate, acute; leaf very thick fleshy, linear-ovate, 10 inches long, 
reaching to lowest flower on scape, 4-nerved, broadly keeled, deeply chan- 
nelled, edges incurved, 6-8 lines wide near base, purple-brown densely 
covered with minute red raised dots. Flowers 5-10, erect on stout pedicels 
32 inch long; a bracteole at base of each, ovate-acuminate very acute, 
sub-clasping 4-3 inch long reaching to base of perianth, obscurely 6-8 
nerved ; perianth 1-14 inches diameter. Sepals ovate-acuminate, nerved, 
a little longer than the petals, brownish-purple with white margins; petals 
light bluish-purple, broadly oblong-lanceolate, very obtuse, or elliptic with a 
muero, obscurely nerved. Column with pointed tip ; appendages (staminodia) 
long, much longer than the column each bifid, anterior arm densely fim- 
briated with yellow fimbriz, posterior ditto with long subulate erect points 
at top, and crenulated fleshy pink edges on back slope running down to a 
deep notch at the back, exposing top of column. Ovary obovate, 9 lines 
long, 3 lines wide, broadly ribbed. Tubers 2, large, sub-obovoid, obtuse, 
1 inch long, } inch broad. 
Hab. In clayey ground, Fagus woods, high land between Norsewood 
and Danneverke, Waipawa County, 1882; flowering in December; W.C, 
