minutely echinulate above, naked and longitudinally nerved beneath. Peduncles solitary from the base of the pseudobulbs, very short, ⅓–⅙in. long, 1-flowered; bract minute. Flowers very minute, whitish. Upper sepal narrow-ovate, acute; lateral rather larger, broadly triangular. Petals shorter than the sepals, oblong, subacute. Lip clawed on to the projecting foot of the column; claw long; lamina ovate, obtuse, thickened, disc with indistinct ridges. Ovary broadly oblong, gibbous, minutely echinulate.—A. Cunn. Precur. n. 317; Raoul, Choix, 41; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 240; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 263. B. ichthyostomum, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvi. (1894) 319. Dendrobium pygmæum, Smith in Rees Cyclop. xi. n. 27.
North and South Islands: From the North Cape to Otago; in the South Island chiefly on the western side. Sea-level to 1500 ft. November–February.
I do not see upon what grounds Mr. Colenso has separated his B. ichthyostomum. The type specimens in his herbarium appear to me to be typical B. pygmæum.
3. EARINA, Lindl.
Epiphytes. Stems tufted, simple, compressed; pseudobulbs wanting. Leaves distichous, alternate, narrow-linear. Flowers rather small, in terminal simple or branched bracteate racemiform panicles. Sepals about equal, spreading, free. Petals similar to the sepals. Lip affixed to the base of the column or its slightly produced foot, 3-lobed; lateral lobes small or large; middle lobe broad, entire or emarginate or 2-lobed. Column short, stout, sometimes produced at the base. Anther terminal, lid-like, 2-celled; pollinia 4, waxy, aggregated in pairs in each cell, free or cohering at the base by a short viscid appendage. Capsule oblong.
Besides the two species found in New Zealand, which are endemic, there are four others from the Pacific islands.
| Slender. Panicles slender; flowers remote. Lip deeply 3-lobed; disc eglandular | 1. E. mucronata. |
| Stout. Panicles stiff; flowers close. Lip very obscurely 3-lobed; disc with 2 ridges | 2. E. suaveolens. |
1. E. mucronata, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub. t. 1699.—Rhizome creeping. Stems numerous, 1–3 ft. long, slender, simple, pendulous or rarely erect, smooth, compressed and 2-edged, spotted. Leaves 3–6 in. long, ⅙–⅕ in. broad, narrow-linear, acuminate, flat, smooth, thin but coriaceous, very finely striate. Panicle terminal, slender, sparingly branched, 2–5 in. long, many-flowered; bracts clasping, striate. Flowers rather distant, sessile, ¼ in. diam. Sepals and petals Imear-oblong, spreading, obtuse, pale-yellow. Lip darker yellow with a brownish-orange spot at the base, deeply 3-lobed; middle lobe broader than long, again divaricately 2-lobed; disc eglandular. Column short, stout. Pollinia attached at the base to a short caudicle. Capsule oblong, ¼ in. long.—A. Cunn. Precur.
