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LVI. Vermischte neue Diagnosen. 
940. Epilobium microphyllum A, Rich. var. prostratum D. Petrie in 
Transact. N, Zeal. Inst., LIV (1911), 1912, p. 180. 
Planta typo simillima, ramis omnibus prostratis diffusisque, 
pedunculis floriferis longioribus. — New Zealand: Broken River 
(lower part); Opihi River (near Fairlie); vicinity of Naseby, D. P.; 
Mount Somers, B. C. Aston. — This curious form maintains its distinctive 
characteristics over a wide area of the South Island. It occurs on gra- 
velly flats in valley-bottoms. 
941. Aciphylla intermedia D. Petrie. l. c, p. 180. — Caulis erectus, 
4—6 dem altus. — Folia parum rigida, 2—3-pinnata, 25 — 40 cm longa; 
vagina una cum petiolo laminam dissectam aequante vel excedente; 
foliola ultima brevia (8—12 cm longitudine), angusta (4—5 mm latitu- 
dine). — Inflorescentia late oblonga, + 30 cm longa. — Bractearum 
vaginae anguste obcuneatae, in prolongationem 1—2-pinnate divisam 
foliorum laminis subsimilem produetae. — Pedunculi universales con- 
gesti, longiusculi, tenues, sulcati. -— Fructus lineari-oblongus, utraque 
facie 5-alatus. — New Zealand: Mounts Hector and Holdsworth, 
Tararua Range, Wellington; on the alpine meadow, from 3500 ft. 
upwards. — | am indebted to Mr. B. C. Aston for specimens of this 
Species, which is intermediate between A. Colensoi Hook. f. and A, 
Monroi Hook. f., with closer affinity with the latter. It is the plant 
referred to under the name Aciphylla Monroi Hook. f. in my list of the 
plants observed on Mount Hector (Transactions, vol. 40), and probably 
also the plant so named in Mr. Aston's list of the plants of the Welling- 
ton distriet (Transactions, vol. 42). The longer more flaccid leaves, the 
Stout tall stem, and especially the dense broad elongated inflorescence 
mark it off from A. Monroi. The male inflorescence has not so far 
been seen. The plant is of infrequent occurrence on the Tararuas, where, 
however, A, Colensoi is most abundant. 
912. Coprosma Astoni D. Petrie, l. c., p. 181. — Frutex subhumilis, 
gracilis, ramosus, + 2 m altus. — Rami divaricantes, graciles, foliosi: 
cortice + rugoso, cinereo-incano; ramulis dense breviterque incano-pu- 
bescentibus. —- Folia plerumque fasciculata, anguste linearia, 6—10 mm 
longa, 1! mm lata, leviter retusa vel truncata, tenuia, glaberrima, plana, 
basim versus subattenuata, supra enervia, in siccitate leviter recurva 
— Flores sessiles, ramulos laterales valde abbreviatos terminantes; mas- 
culi solitarii vel 2—4-fasciculati; feminei solitarii. — Drupae globosae, 
magnitudine mediocres, clare rubrae. — New Zealand: Whisky 
Gully, near Tapanui, B. C. Aston and L. Cockayne; the Hump, between 
Lake Hauroko and the sea, J. Crosby Smith; Routeburn Valley, in 
Shady beech forest, D. P. — The present species has its nearest ally in 
my Coprosma Banksii; its leaves are smaller and shorter, very uniform 
in size and shape, and more freely fascicled; the branchlets are uni- 
