Tas. 6864, 
COLENSOA puysatorpEs. 
Native of New Zealand. 
Nat. Ord. CampanvuLace®.—Tribe LoBELIER. 
Genus Cotznsoa, Hook.f. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 557.) 
CotrNsoa physaloides, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. vol. i. p- 157, and Handbook of 
New Zeald. Fl. p. 170. 
Lobelia physaloides, 4. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeald. in Tayl. Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. ii. 
p. 20; DC. Prodr. vol. vii. Addit. p. 785; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 555. 
The natural family of Campanulacee, of which upwards 
of thirty species inhabit Australia, is very poorly repre- 
sented in New Zealand, where, however, a monotypic 
genus, the subject of the present plate, is endemic. ‘This 
last in floral characters comes near to Pratia, a genus 
found in all three continents of the southern hemisphere, 
which extends into tropical Asia, and which differs from 
Colensoa in the usually small size and creeping habit of the 
Species, their more equal corolla-lobes, and solitary flowers, 
and in some or all the anthers being strongly bearded or 
terminated by bristles. In other respects Colensoa is a 
gigantic Pratia. The name it bears is that of one who 
well deserves the name of the patriarch of living New 
Zealand Naturalists, W. Colenso, Esq., the friend of Allan 
Cunningham, who botanized the Northern Island in 1838, 
the companion of Darwin in some of his rambles about the 
Bay of Islands in 1835, and the zealous aider of the 
Naturalists of the Antarctic Expedition in 1841. Of him 
it is written in the Preface to the ‘‘ Handbook of the New 
Zealand Flora,’ that ‘during many successive years he 
has collected throughout the whole length of the Northern 
Island with great care and skill, discovering more rare and 
new plants than any botanists since Banks and Solander,” 
and that ‘in every respect Mr. Colenso is the foremost 
_ New Zealand Botanical Explorer, and the one to whom 
_ the author of the Flora of that country is the most indebted 
_ MARCH Ist, 1886, 
