Pes | qo : IVuS” 
Thelymitra.] ORCHIDACEAE. 339 
1. T. ixioides Swz. in Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. xxi (1800) 228, t. 3. 
—Stem tall, slender, 9-18in. high. Leaf rather long but shorter than the 
stem, narrow-linear, thick, channelled in front. Flowers we or more in a 
raceme 2-6in. long, rather large, 2in. diam. Sepals, petals, and lip broadly 
oblong or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or subacute. Column short, stout, not 
4 as long as the perianth; the broad wing continued behind the anther 
and overtopping it, 3-lobed at the back and with a lateral lobe on each 
side at the front angle; lateral lobes the highest, pointing forwards and 
upwards, linear, tipped with a small dense tuft of cilia; the 3 intermediate 
lobes broader and shorter, truncate, denticulate or crenate, the middle one 
usually crested on the back. Anther rather narrow, pointed, much longer 
than the rostellum—AHook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii (1860) 6, t. 1038; Benth. Fl. 
Austral. vi (1873) 317; Fitzgerald Austral. Orch. ii (1888) pt. 3; Berggr. om 
Minneskr. Fisiog. Sallsk. Lund. (1877) 22; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
669. 
Nortu Isnanp: Not uncommon on clay hills from Mangonui and Kaitaia south- 
wards to the Waikato River, Rotorua, and Taupo, Berggren, R. H. Matthews ! Petrie ! 
H. Carse! T. F.C. — Sea-level to 1000 ft. September-November. Also a common 
Australian plant. 
A handsome plant, with large blue flowers sometimes spotted with brown. The 
intermediate lobes at the top of the column are tipped with bright-yellow, below which 
is a transverse band of violet. 
one 0 
2. T. longifolia Forst. Char. Gen. (1786) 98, t. 49.— Very variable 
in size and degree of robustness, short or long, stout or slender, 3-18 in. 
high. Leaf often overtopping the flowers in short-stemmed specimens, 
narrow-linear or linear-lanceolate, varying in breadth from }-?in. diam. 
or even more, flat or involute, thick and coriaceous or fleshy, grooved and 
nerved. Flowers 2-16 in a raceme 1-6in. long or sometimes solitary, vari- 
able in size, 4-2in. diam., colour varying from white to pink or blue. 
Sepals and petals oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceclate, acute or acuminate ; 
lip usually somewhat broader and more obtuse. Column short, stout; the 
wing continued behind the anther and much longer than it, 3-lobed; the 
middle lobe the highest, broad, rounded, hood-shaped and projecting for- 
wards over the anther, emarginate or shallowly 2-lobed, margins smooth, 
entire ; lateral lobes short, linear, terminated by a dense brush of white 
cilia. Anther much exceeding the rostellum.—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 
(1864) 270; Benth. Fl. Austral. vi (1873) 319; Fetzegerald Austral. Orch. i 
(1880) pt. 6. T. Forsteri Swz. in Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. xxi (1800) 228 ; 
A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 165, t. 25, f. 2; A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) 
n. 3809; Raoul Choix (1846) 41; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1858) 248 ; 
Cheesem. Man. N:Z. Fl. (1906) 669; Ill. N.Z. Fl. ii (1914) t. 192, 
T. stenopetala Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1 (1844) 69. T. nemoralis and T, pur- 
pureo-fusca Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii (1885) 249. T. cornuta Col. l.c. 
xx (1888) 206. | 
Var. alba Cheesem. n. var.—Similar to the above, but sepals light greenish-purple ; 
petals pure-white.—T. alba Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xviii (1886) 272. 
Nortu AND Sourn IsLtanps, STEwAarT IsLanp, CHarHamM IsLanps, AUCKLAND 
Istanps: Abundant from the Three Kings Islands and the North Cape southwards. 
Sea-level to 4000 ft. Makaika. November- December. Also in Australia and 
Tasmania. 
