382 Transactions.— Botany. 
Flowers numerous, 12-00, terminal in long loose panicles and cymose- 
panicles, on long leafy axillary and opposite branchlets much longer than 
the leaves, scentless: calya large, coloured dark pink, (and with pedicels 
and peduncle) densely velvety tomentose with light brown hairs; lobes 
acuminate acute, teeth about 4 line long, spreading, ciliated; the lobes 
lengthen much after flowering on the fruit: pedicels 2 lines long, each with 
one small bracteole: corolla pure white, urceolate, inflated, 34-5 lines long, 
finely pubescent on the outside with very short scattered squarrose bairs ; 
lobes small, scarcely 1 line long, subacute, subrevolute; throat constricted 
with a slightly raised corona : anthers wholly included below constriction. 
Follicles (immature and green) sub-cylindrical, tapering gradually to apex, 
points very obtuse, 8 inches long, 24 lines in diameter, 8 lines circum- 
ference, striated longitudinally, umber-brown when dry, minutely strigose- 
pubescent with small scattered white adpressed hairs. 
The nodal stipules or appendages, on the young long flagelliform densely 
tomentose branches (rami viminei) present a very curious appearance ; they 
are opposite, erect, large, 8 lines long, subulate or linear with small dilated 
sub-leafy apices ; at first, however, each one projects squarely out, about a 
line, at a right angle from the stem, with the outer point or elbow slightly 
dropping downwards, after the manner of a bracket corbel or drip; the 
whole possessing a peculiar quadrate and regular appearance. 
Hab.—“ Seventy-mile Bush,’ Hawke’s Bay; thickets near banks of 
streams, 1876-1881: flowering in April, also in November, and possibly 
throughout the summer. 
I had long known this plant in its leafing state, and had suspected— 
from its general tomentose appearance, and the regularity of the outline of 
its large leaves—that it might prove to be distinct from the two established 
New Zealand species, P. rosea and P. albiflora. Last autumn I was 80 
fortunate as to obtain good flowering and fruiting specimens, which proved 
my conjecture to be correct, as it very widely differs, specifically, from both 
of those species,—more so indeed, than they do from each other. It 18, 
however, allied to P. albiflora; and probably to an Australian species. - 
is a fine healthy-looking large and thickly-leaved species, and is evidently 
fast grower. 
Class II. Monocorynepons. 
Orpen 1. ORCHIDEZX. 
Genus 4. Sarcocmmus, Brown. 
Sarcochilus breviscapa, n. sp. a 
_ Plant epiphytical ; roots stout, clasping, issuing from bases of leav® — 
and forming large irregular masses, from which 4-8 plants grow: sent 
