840 Transactions. — Botany. 



but are never axillary to the leaves, peduncles and pedicels rigid, stout. 

 Flowers, including stamens, 1 inch long. Calyx pyriform widening at the 

 mouth and produced beyond the ovary, lobes triangular, petals large, 

 bright-crimson, oblong acute, lacerate on the margins, stamens and style 

 stout. Ovary adherent only at base to the calyx-tube. Capsule 3-valved, 

 upper part free. 



This plant differs from M. hypericifolia (to which it is allied) in its larger 

 size, upright habit of branching, smooth bark, and position of capsule in 

 the calyx. From M. colensoi (to which it is also allied) it differs in the cymes 

 never being axillary to the leaves, and in the free position of the capsule in 

 the calyx-tube. 



Named in honour of Mr. Sydney Parkinson, botanical draughtsman on 

 Captain Cook's first voyage to New Zealand. Collected in the Collmgwood 

 district, Nelson, by Mr. H. H. Travers, December, 1882. 



Plate XXVIII, fig. 2, plant nat. size ; 2 a, floret ; 2 b, petal enlarged. 

 Calochilus paludosus, R. Br. 



The present plant adds yet another genus of Orchide® to the flora of 

 New Zealand. 



It was collected by Mr. H. H. Travers in the Collingwood District, 

 South Island, in December last. Baron F. von Mueller, to whom speci- 

 mens were sent, says : " I took immediate notice that this Calochilus might 

 be identical with C. paludosus, as you suggest, but the inner segments of the 

 calyx are shorter, and the anther is less blunt ; still, that may be ascribed 

 to variation, and I must confess I am not clear about positive distinction 

 between C. campestris, C. robertsoni, and C. paludosus, perhaps because only 

 one form seems to have come under my notice in Victoria in the fresh state, 

 and the others I know only from dried and not very instructive New South 

 Wales specimens. It would be well if a little more material of the New 

 Zealand congeners could be procured, and best of all if several flowers 

 were put fresh into alcohol." 



Aet. XLII. — Notes on some of the Diatomaceous Deposits of New Zealand. 



By John Inglis. 

 [Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 30th November, 1882.] 

 Plate XXIX. 

 For many years past I have been interested in and have devoted some 

 attention to diatomaceous deposits from various parts of New Zealand, and 

 propose in the present paper to give an account of some of them, with, it 

 may be, a somewhat incomplete list of the species which have been found 

 therein. 



