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4. P rufum PR. Br. Prodr. (1810) 319.--Very similar in size and habit 
to P. pumilum, and like it with the leaf reduced to a sheathing bract just 
below the spike, the lamina very short and subulate. Spike few- or many- 
flowered, 4-3? in, long Flowers still more minute than in P. pumalum, 
the penaueh: about ;;in. long, horizontal, reddish or yellowish. Upper 
sepal ovate, acuminate, concave; the lateral much longer, quite free, 
lanceolate, acuminate, the points tipped with a small oland. Petals small, 
lanceolate, shorter than the upper sepal. Labellum articulate on a flat 
ribband-like projection from the foot of the column, mobile, lanceolate, 
acute, truncate at the base, adnate plate occupying most of the dise, thickest 
along the margins. Column very short, the lobes rather narrow, 2-toothed 
at the tip. Anther large, apiculate, overtopping the small rostellum. —~ 
Benth. Fl. Austral. vi (1 873) 344; Fitzgerald Austral. Crch. 1 (1891) pt. 4; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 676. P. nudum Hook, f. Hl, Now, Zel. 1 
(1853) 242; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 272. P. tunicatum ‘Hook. f. Fl. Nov, 
Zel.i (1853) 242. (2) P. variegatum Col. im Trans, N.Z. Inst. xx (188) 208. 
Norte Istanp: Auckland—Birkdale, a few specimens only, H. B. Matthews / 
Waimarino Plains, #. Phillips Turner! Paeroa Range, K. W, Allison! “Hawke’s Bay— 
Lake Tutira, H. Guthrie-Smith ' Wellington—Lake Taupo, Te Hawara, Port Nicholson, 
Colenso (Handbook); Kaitoke; Day’s Bay, B. C. Aston. SoutH Isnanp: Marl- 
borough—Port Underwood and Kenepuru, J, H. Macmahon! Nelson—Westport, 
J. HL. Holloway ! 
This corresponds fairly well with the plate of P. rufum given by Mr. Fitzgerald in 
his ‘“‘ Australian Orchids.” It is distinguished from the preceding species by the 
smaller horizontal usually reddish flowers, narrower lateral sepals tipped by a minute 
gland, much narrower lip, the adnate plate on which is thickest on the edges, and in 
the narrower lateral lobes of the column. 
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