832 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 : cahjx large, coloured dark pink, (and with pedicels 

 and peduncle) densely velvety tomentose with light brown hairs ; lobes 

 acuminate acute, teeth about ^ line long, spreading, ciliated ; the lobes 

 lengthen much after flowering on the fruit : j^edicels 2 lines long, each with 

 one small bracteole : corolla pure white, urceolate, inflated, 3-|-5 lines long, 

 finely pubescent on the outside with very short scattered squarrose hairs ; 

 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 veiy obtuse, 8 inches long, 2^ 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, 3 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 

 drojjpiug 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. alhifiora. Last autumn I was so 

 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 is, 

 however, allied to P. albiflora ; and probably to an Australian species. It 

 is a fine healthy-looking large and thickly-leaved species, and is evidently a 

 fast grower. 



Class II. Monocotyledons. 

 Order 1. OECHIDE^. 

 Genus 4. Sarcochilus, Brown. 

 Sarcochilus breviscapa, n. sp. 



Plant epiphytical ; roots stout, clasping, issuing h'om bases of leaves 

 and forming large irregular masses, from which 4-8 plants grow : stems 

 6-10 lines high, compressed, subcylindrical, very stout, glabrous, purple, 



