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membranaceis. Carpella a dorso valde compressa, altero 3-alato, altero 
2-alato; vittae magnae, sub valleculis solitariae vel duae. Carpophorum 
2-partitum. Semen ad vittas sulcatum. 
935. Coxella Dieffenbachii Cheesem. et Hemsl., |. c., species unica. — 
Gingidium Dieffenbachii F. Muell., Veg. Chat., 17, t. 1. — Ligusticum Dieffen- 
bachii Hook. f., Handb. N. Z. Fl, 729. — Angelica Dieffenbachii, Index 
Kew, 1, 133.. — Aciphylla Dieffenbachii T. Kirk, Students’ PL. 211; Cheesem., 
Man. N. Z. PL. 214. 
New Zealand: Chatham Islands: Maritime cliffs; now exceedingly scarce. 
H. H. Travers! F, A. D. Cox! Captain Dorrien Smith! — A very remar- 
kable plant, of doubtful position. A glance at the synonyms quoted 
above shows that it has been placed by turns in the genera Gingidium, 
Ligusticum, Angelica, and Aciphylla. From the typical Ligustica it differs 
markedly in the flattened and conspicuously winged fruit, one carpel 
being 3-winged and the other 2-winged, or very rarely both carpels 
may be 3-winged. The vittae are unusually large, and are either 1 or 2 
in the interspaces, with 2 or 3 on the commisural face. From Angelica 
it is separated by the equally winged fruit, in the smaller number of 
wings (or ribs), and in the number being unequal in the two carpels. 
It has much of the habit of Aciphylla, although the leaves and bracts 
are never spinescent, but differs in the flattened and winged carpels, 
and in the smaller number of wings (or ribs) to each carpel, to say 
nothing of the much larger vittae. Believing that it is best treated as 
a separate genus, Mr. Hemsley and myself have given it the name of 
Coxella in the forthcoming „Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora“, 
in which a carefully prepared plate with full analytical details will 
appear, 
936. Coprosma neglecta Cheesem., |. c., p. 160. — Ab C. rhamuoides 
differt caule prostrato, ramulis et petiolis dense et breviter pubescentibus, 
foliis crassis et subearnosis, baccis (immaturis) oblongis. —  Fruticulus 
prostratus, divaricatim ramosus; ramulis validis dense cano-pubescenti- 
bus. Folia parva, 10—15 mm longa, 5—12 mm lata, oblonga vel rotun- 
dato-oblonga vel orbiculata, obtusa, petiolata, erassa et subcarnosa, inar- 
ginibus recurvis, venis subtus conspicuis. Flores non visi. Bacca 
(immatura) parva, oblonga, 5-6 mm longa. — New Zealand: Hab. — 
North Island: On the faces of cliffs near the North Cape; January, 
EU TPGO- Asa rule, it is not advisable to describe species of 
Coprosma unless either good flowers or ripe fruit have been obtained. 
In this instance, however, the creeping habit, slender branchlets clothed 
with a fine and even greyish-white pubescence, the thick and fleshy 
broad obtuse leaves, and the fact that the immature fruit is oblong are 
characters which in combination remove it from all described species. 
937. Myosotis Laingii Cheesem., I. c., p. 161. — M. laetae simillima 
et fo rsitan ejus varietas, sed differt caulibus altioribus et floribus multo 
majoribus. — Perennis, undique pilis albidis copiose vestitus. Rami 
