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Hab. Skirts of woods near 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 characters (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. 

 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, havhig 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, £-1 inch from base, 6-8 inches long, 1-2 lines wide, 

 linear- acuminate, thickish, glabrous, channelled, green on upper and 

 purplisb-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, 1883 : 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) 



