Tas. 4602. 
CHRYSOBACTRON Hooker. 
Dr. Hooker’s Chrysobactron. 
Nat. Ord. ASPHODELEZ.—HEXANDRIA MonoGynia. 
Gen. Char. Flores racemosi, nunc dioici. Flor. masc. Perianthium corollinum, 
hexaphyllum ; foliola patentia, zequalia, ovato-oblonga, obtusa, medio incrassata. 
Stamina 6, hypogyna ; filamenta elongato-subulata, perianthio breviora, nuda ; an- 
there versatiles. Ovarium ovatum, acuminatum, trisuleatum, vacuum. flor. form. 
Perianthium ut in fl. mase., sed foliolis post anthesin erectis, demum deciduis. 
Stamina 6, antheris incompletis. Ovariwm late ovatum, profunde trisulcatum, 
triloculare, lobis dorso canaliculatis, loculis bi- rarius uniovulatis. Ovula, ubi 2, 
collateralia, funiculis brevibus infra apicem loculi angulo interiore suspensa. 
Stylus validus, erectus, teres. Stigma capitatum, parvum, obscure 3—6-lobum. 
Capsula ovata, trilocularis, loculicide trivalvis ; valyz coriaceo-submembranacee, 
intus medio septiferae. Semina loculis pleramque bina, collateralia, triquetra, 
testa atra subcrustacea; al/umen corneum; embryo axilis, paulo curvatus, albu- 
mine parum brevior: radicula incrassata.—Herba speciosa, elata, perennis, 
Aucklandica et in insula Campbell Novaque Zelandia proveniens. Radix elongata, 
tuberibus elongatis fasciculatis donata. Folia late ensiformia, basi vaginantia. 
Scapi solitarii v. plurimi, pedales et ultra. Flores racemosi, aurantiaci. 
Curysopactron Hookeri; foliis lineari-ligulatis acuminatis, racemis laxifloris, 
ovario obovato, capsula basi in stipitem brevem suffulta. ‘ 
Curysopactron Hookeri. Colenso, in litt. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 817 (specimen 
in fruit). 
The first species of the present genus (C. Rossii) was detected 
by Dr. Hooker in Lord Auckland’s Islands, and it is figured and 
described in the ‘ Flora Antarctica.’ It was named Chrysobactron, 
“in allusion to the magnificent racemes of golden flowers ” which 
that species bears. We have the pleasure of representing here 
a second individual of the genus, far less showy indeed, from New 
Zealand, whence the roots were sent in a Wardian case by our 
valued friend Mr. Bidwill. Mr. Colenso detected it soon after. 
The former gentleman found it in the rich alluvial plain of the 
upper part of Wairu, Middle Island; the latter in the sides of 
watercourses, in the country between the Ruahine range and 
‘Taupo, plentiful. “It grows in great clumps in boggy places, 
and 1s said to cover the plain with a sheet of yellow when in 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1851. 
