300 Transactions.— Botany. 
Hab. Mountains of Nelson. Summit of Gordon’s Nob, alt. 4,000 feet. 
Raglan Mountains, Wairau Valley, alt. 4,000—5,000 feet. 
This belongs to the section of the genus with solitary axillary flowers, 
of which V. canescens, Kirk, is the only other species deseribed from New 
Zealand. Our plant differs in habit, larger size, smaller white flowers, and 
in the pinnatifid leaves. 
4. Pterostylis mutica, R. Br. 
(R. Br., Prodr. 328; Bentham, Flora Australiensis, vol. vi., p. 362.) 
Leaves in a radical rosette at the base of the stem, 1—4 inch long, ovate, 
shortly petiolate, reticulate, apparently withering at the time of flowering. 
Stem 2-5 inches high, with 24 empty sheathing bracts below the flowers. 
Flowers 2-5, arranged in a slightly spiral spike, greenish-brown. Galea 
broad, much incurved, obtuse or subacute at the tip, hardly three lines 
long. Lower lip broad, almost orbicular in outline, concave, reflexed, with 
two short broad lobes. Labellum placed on a short flat claw, short, broad, 
and obtuse ; appendage nearly as broad, entire, rounded. Column erect ; 
wings broad, lower lobe broad and obtuse. 
Hab. Lee Stream, near Dunedin ; Mr. Sydney Fulton. 
I am indebted to Mr. G. M. Thomson, of Dunedin, for Specimens in 
spirit of this curious little species. It was first found in New Zealand by 
Mr. Fulton some two years back, and was identified in the ** New Zealand 
Journal of Science " with P. aphylla, Lindl., a local Tasmanian species. It 
(Benth., Flora Australiensis, vol. vii., p. 326.) 
Rhizome apparently elongated, branched, rooting at the nodes. Leaves 
very narrow linear, almost filiform, 13-2 inches long. Stems about 3 inches 
long. Spikelet solitary, terminal, pale brownish-green, ovate, rather more 
than 4 inch long, many-flowered. Glumes ovate, obtuse, Striate, herbace- 
ous, with a green centre and purplish-brown margins. Stamens 9. Style- 
branches 2. Nut greyish-white, very nearly orbicular, but slightly broader 
above and produced into a short point, much flattened, centre biconvex, 
then becoming thinner, margin thickened all round. 
