their leaves ; but that those growing below that elevation 
retain them ; a very singular fact, which I should be glad to 
have verified by observations in other provinces. 
Living plants of Plagianthus Lyallii were received at the 
Royal Gardens from Dr. Haast, and flowered in July of the 
present year. The flowers are subdimorphic, some having 
much shorter styles than others. 
Drscr. A small branching tree, twenty to thirty feet high, 
with the young branches, inflorescence, petioles and leaves 
beneath more or less clothed with a fine white stellate pu- 
_ bescence. Leaves two to four inches long, ovate-cordate, 
acuminate, basal sinus open or closed, shallow or deep, margin 
deeply doubly-crenate, upper surface bright green, gla- 
brous, under pale or white; petiole one to one and a half 
inches long. lowers one to one and a quarter inches in 
diameter, numerous, drooping, in axillary fascicles of three to 
five, pure white with pink styles; peduncles one to one 
-and a half inches long, slender, ebracteate. Ca/ya one-third 
of an inch in diameter, broadly campanulate, 5-lobed, lobes 
triangular. Petals obliquely obovate, retuse on one side 
. towards the apex, concave, spreading. Stamens very numerous, 
filaments slender, connate at the base, obscurely connected 
into five bundles; anthers minute, yellow. Ovary broadly 
ovoid, about ten-celled, pubescent; styles very slender, con- 
nate below the middle, filiform, shortly stigmatose on the 
inner face and tip. Fruit one-half to three-quarters of an 
inch in diameter, globose, about ten-furrowed, of as many 
much-flattened membranous carpels that are not winged. 
Seed much compressed.—-/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower of the short styled form; 2, pistil; 3, fruit:—all but 2 
of the natural size, 
