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and sometimes dashed with a purple hue ; petiole i-H inches long, white, 

 often pinkish, with a sheathing truncate bract at base ; peduncle short, 1-2 

 lines long, bibracteate close to base of flower, the front bract much smaller 

 linear, the hind one ovate-oblong, both obtuse ; flowers 3-4 lines diameter, 

 much veined, dorsal sepal arched, closely clasping, subobovate-spathulate, 

 narrowest at base, rounded and slightly sinuate or subapiculate at apex, 

 green with a purple median hue ; lateral sepals and petals linear acuminate, 

 very narrow filiform, upper pair f inch long, lower pah hair-like, 4 lines 

 long ; lip large, dark blood-red above with darker stripes, greenish below 

 spotted with red, bi-lobed at top, lobes rounded entire, 2-3 deep laciniations 

 or ragged lobes below, with the sides much cut and jagged and incurved, a 

 dehcate circular bordered ear-like aperture on both sides immediately behind 

 bases of petals. 



Hub. Among mosses, steep cliffy sides of dry hills, Fagus forests 

 near Norsewood,. Waipawa County; 1880 (plentifully but barren); 1882 

 (a few capsules long past flowering) ; and 1883, September, in flower : 

 W.C. 



Obs. — I have kuown this plant for some years, but never found it in 

 flower until the spring of 1883, mainly owing to its peculiar manner of 

 growth, and its very early flowering ; for while its one small leaf is spread 

 flat on its mossy bed, its delicate flower is 1-2 inches below the surface, 

 and never appears above during its flowering, though afterwards (in a few 

 observed instances) its capsule is shown just above the surface, owing to 

 the elongation of the peduncle after flowering, which habit is also common 

 to the genus. It grows pretty thickly scattered in beds, showing its small 

 glistening leaf just above the mosses and debris of fallen Fagus leaves 

 (F. solandri), but flowering specimens are very scarce, not one plant in 

 twenty bearing a flower. A species possessing close affinity with C. triloba, 

 Hook. fil. 

 Corysanthes papillosa, sp. nov. 



Plant small, 2-3* inches high. Leaf f-lj inches diameter, membra- 

 nous, finely and regularly papillose on upper surface, orbicular-cordate; 

 auricles broad and largely rounded overlapping petiole, slightly retuse and 

 apiculate at tip, much veined ; veins anastomosing with an intramarginal 

 vein running all round, light-green w T ith (sometimes) a purple midrib and 

 spots near margin ; petiole |-2 inches long ; peduncle short, 3-4 lines long, 

 variously situated — springing from near base of long petiole — frorn the 

 middle — and from the top near leaf, purple spotted, bibracteate at base of 

 ovarium ; bracts small, unequal, the front one very minute, white, the back 

 one much larger, ovate-acuminate, green. Flower J inch diameter, upper 



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