entire; lateral lobes short, linear, terminated by a dense brush of white cilia. Anther much exceeding the rostellum.—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 270; Benth. Fl. Austral. vi. 319; Fitzgerald, Austral. Orch. i. pt. 6. T. Forsteri, Swz. in Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. xxi. (1800) 228; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 165. t. 25, f. 2; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 309; Raoul, Choix, 41; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 243. T. stenopetala, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 69. T. nemoralis and T. purpureo-fusca, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii. (1885) 249. T. alba, Col. l.c. xviii. (1886) 272. T. cornuta, Col. l.c. xx. (1888) 206.
North and South Islands, Stewart Island, Chatham Islands, Auckland Islands: Abundant from the Three Kings Islands and the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 4000 ft. Makaika. November–December. Also in Australia and Tasmania.
Found in all soils and situations (except in the dense forest) and correspondingly variable. Its best distinguishing character is the large middle lobe of the column-wing, which forms a smooth rounded hood projecting over the anther and usually overtopping the lateral lobes, which are most densely ciliate at the tips. For an account of the fertilisation, see a paper by myself in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. 291.
3. T. intermedia, Berggr. in Minneskr. Fisiog. Sallsk. Lund. (1877) 21, t. 5, f. 21–24.—Size and habit altogether that of slender forms of T. longifolia, and flowers similar in general appearance. Column-wing continued behind the anther and 3-lobed as in T. longifolia; but the intermediate lobe is much shorter, so that the tip of the anther is exserted beyond it, and the anterior angle on each side is incurved and acute; the lateral lobes longer, erect, exceeding the intermediate lobe, terminated by a much smaller and less dense tuft of cilia.
North Island: Bay of Islands, Berggren.
I only know this through Dr. Berggren's figure and description. It may be the same as the following, but that is a question that can only be settled by actual comparison of the types.
4. T. Colensoi, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 271.—"Very slender, 8–12 in. high. Leaf very narrow-linear, flexuous. Flowers 1–3, yellowish, on slender pedicels, ⅓ in. broad. Sepals and petals very narrow, linear-oblong, acute. Column very short; appendages very long, subulate, erect, plumose at the tip. Anther with a long point."—T. pauciflora, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 244 (not of B. Br.).
North Island: Colenso (Handbook).
I have seen no specimens that I can refer to this, and in the absence of any additional information have reproduced tbe description given in the Handbook.
5. T. pulchella, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 244.—Stem tall,, slender, often flexuous, 9–18 in. high or even more. Leaf shorter than the stem, long, linear, fleshy, grooved and channelled; empty
