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Hab. Skirts of woods néar Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; flowering 
in February and March ; 1883-84: W.C. 
Obs. A species allied to the common M. porrifolia, but differing in 
several charaeters (vide descript. supra); and also from its flowering in the 
autumn. It is nearly allied to some of the Australian species. 
Genus 11. Caladenia, Br. j 
1. Caladenia variegata, sp. nov. 
Plant erect, 6-12 inches high, glandular-pubescent ; pubescence 
pink-tipped ; scape red, sub-rigid not succulent, slender above leaf, 
stoutish below, arising from a thickened node, having three clasping 
membranous acute sheaths, one at base enclosing scape and leaf, 
one at middle 6-8 inches long, and one close under ovarium ; root 
rather long, stoutish, ending in a long white tuber as big as a pea. 
Leaf ‘single, 4-1 inch from base, 6-8 inches long, 1-2 lines wide, 
linear-acuminate, thickish, glabrous, channelled, green on upper and 
purplish-red on under surface, slightly ciliate at edges, and very sparsely 
pubescent underneath on the lower portion with long weak glandular hairs. 
Flower single on top of scape, (one specimen only, out of nearly forty 
obtained, bore two flowers, both springing from within the upper sheath 
and pedicelled,) perianth spreading, more than $ inch diameter; dorsal 
sepal green, arched, sub-oblong-obovate, obtuse and apiculate at apex, pro- 
duced, glabrous above ; lateral sepals pinkish, oblong, apiculate, larger than 
petals, 3-nerved; petals pink, oblong-lanceolate, apiculate, falcate ; lip 
sessile ; disk with two longitudinal rows of bright-yellow stipitate glands 
having large globular heads, extending from inner part of middle lobe down 
into the throat, with smaller glands scattered on each side, and one or two 
at the margin of extreme base of the middle lobe ; the two lateral lobes are 
transversely banded with light-purple, margins white, rounded at tips; 
middle lobe deltoid, deeply crenulate, recurved, bright yellow; column 
winged throughout, green, pubescent at top, transversely banded below 
with light purple, similar to lateral lobes; anther acute, tip subulate, 
margin finely fimbriate. Ovary 8-9 lines long, linear-obovate, sulcate, 
densely glandular-pubescent. 
Hab. Plentifully, but only in one spot, among mosses on fallen and 
rotten Fagus trees, and on the ground alongside, in rotten vegetable soil, 
shady woods, top of a high hill near Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 
December, 1888: W.C. 
Obs. A species closely allied to the two known New Zealand species, 
C. minor and lyallii; and also to several Tasmanian and Australian 
species—C. carnea, alata, and angustata ; but while serving naturally to 
unite them differing from them in all important characters. (C. minor, 
