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whieh is so common at the north (Bay of Islands), on clayey open hills 
among fern (Pteris esculenta) and Leptospermum scrub, I have never met 
with in these southern parts. 
Genus 15. Thelymitra, Forst. 
1. Thelymitra nemoralis, sp. nov. 
Plant stout; tubers large, oblong, narrow. Leaf (occasionally two) 
variable, 6-17 inches long, 6-9 lines wide, linear-aeuminate, acute, 
broadest at base, green, glabrous, thick, strongly 3- (obsoletely 5-) nerved, 
keeled. Scape stoutish, 8-16 inches long, bibracteate, braets equidistant, 
sub-foliaceous, clasping, acute; raceme 2-8- (usually 7-) flowered ; flowers 
distant, bracteolate on rather long pedicels; bracteoles obovate-oblong, 
acuminate, acute, obsoletely 5-nerved ; perianth spreading ł inch diameter ; 
sepals pale green with broad white margins, narrower than petals ; dorsal 
sepal much larger than laterals, obovate-oblong, obtuse with a mucro; 
lateral sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; petals white, sometimes pinkish, 
broadly elliptic, acute with a mucro; lip similar to petals but narrower 
and not so highly coloured; column with stout deeply emarginate tip, 
pinkish below, umber-brown above, edged with bright yellow, margins 
ineurved ; appendages produced, rather shorter than column and inclined 
at top towards it, densely globosely-plumose at tips, white; the base of 
wings in front of column sub-two-lobed and two-toothed ; stigmatic gland 
bilobed at base, trilobed at apex including rostellum. 
Hab. Dry Fagus forests. Seventy-mile Bush, County of Waipawa ; 
1881-88: W.C. Flowering in December. 
2. Thelymitra purpureo-fusca, Sp. nov. 
The whole plant exceedingly slender, of a dusky purple-brown or 
purplish-red colour; tubers narrow, oblong. Leaf narrow, 14-3 lines 
wide, 7-10 inches long, thickish, channelled, glabrous. Scape erect, very 
slender, almost filiform, bibracteate, 8-10 inches long; raceme 8-5-flowered 
(occasionally only one); flowers rather distant, bracteolate on long slender 
pedicels ; perianth 4 inch diameter ; sepals dark purple-brown edged with a 
bright green line, a yellow central stripe and broad white exterior margins, 
sub-ovate-acuminate, much concave, dorsal one largest, the two laterals 
with a long mucro; petals light pink, sometimes white, elliptic-oblong, 
obtuse, broader than sepals ; lip the smallest ; column pink dashed with 
blue, apex stout, much emarginate, incurved, dark and edged with bright 
yellow (as in T. nemoralis), but the plumose appendages are more produced 
and rise above the column; anterior base slightly erose ; stigmatic gland 
similar to that of T. nemoralis ; anther very acuminate, tip subulate. 
Hab. In Fagus woods on dry hills with the preceding species, but 
usually higher up ; 1881-88: W.C. 
