for specimens and observations.” Nor have Mr. Colenso’s 
researches been confined to Botany; he was the first to 
bring to notice the former existence of the gigantic birds, 
the Moas, and his labours in the Language, Ethnology, 
Habits, Customs, Arts and Manufactures of the Natives 
of New Zealand are no less valuable than are his botanical 
ones. 
Colensoa is, as far as hitherto known, confined to the 
northern parts of the Northern Island of New Zealand, 
from Wangaroa to Cape North, where it occurs on the 
margins of forests. It was first found by Richard 
Cunningham in 1834, who referred it to Lobelia, from 
which its fruit abundantly distinguishes it. 
The plants here figured were raised at Kew from seeds 
sent by Dr. Hector, F.R.S., in 1883, which flowered in 
September, 1885, in a cool frame. 
Dusor. A stout glabrous simple or sparingly-branched 
herb, two to three feet high ; stem succulent, dull purplish, 
obtusely angled below. Leaves alternate, petioled, four to 
six inches long, ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute, coarsely often 
doubly serrate or toothed, bright green, pale beneath; 
petiole one to five inches long, slender. Flowers two inches 
long, in axillary usually few-flowered (rarely eight to ten- 
flowered) racemes, inclined or horizontal ; pedicels a quarter 
to haif an inch long, with small scattered subulate bracts. 
Calyz-tube hemispheric, obscurely five-furrowed; lobes 
subulate, as long as the tube. Corolla very pale blue, two- 
hpped, at length split to the base posteriorly, tube very 
short; upper lip of two linear erect acuminate lobes ; 
lower as long, but much broader, reflexed, oblong, three- 
toothed at the tip. Staminal column pubescent; anthers 
firmly united, hirsute, tips hardly bearded. Stigma at 
first capitate, at length two-lobed. Berry globose, nearly 
one inch in diameter, five-lobed, dark blue, thinly fleshy, 
crowned with the calyx-lobes. Seeds very numerous, 
minute, globose, tuberculate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with the calyx-teeth and corolla removed; 2, tips of two fila- 
ments and anthers ; 3, transverse section of fruit; 4, a seed :—adl enlarged. 
