as a comparatively small plant in pots at Kew, but a 
specimen eight feet high in one of the beds in the Tem- 
perate House has hitherto, we believe, not flowered. A 
specimen in the Kew Herbarium received from Mr. F. W. 
Burbidge in 1895 has an inflorescence a foot long and a 
foot wide at the base. It flowered under glass in the 
Trinity College Botanic Garden. 
It appears that the colonists sometimes call this the 
paper-tree, but this name is evidently not in general use, 
for we have not met with it in print. It is pencilled in a 
Kew copy of Hooker’s “ Handbook.” Nevertheless it is 
an appropriate name, as the leaves may be used for 
writing on; a fact discovered long ago. Accompanying a 
specimen in the Kew Herbarium, collected by R. Cun- 
ningham, in 1834, is the following note :—‘‘ During the 
time I was occupying the tented field at Wangaroa, Sadler 
and I used to correspond through the medium of puka- 
pulas. The back of the leaf, even in the recent state, 
takes the ink capitally.” We have not tried fresh leaves, 
but it is quite true for dried ones. 
Buchanan states (Trans. N. Z. Inst. vol. xiv. p. 357) 
that both species are poisonous to horses, which should be 
taken into account by intending planters. 
Descr.—A shrub or small tree eight to twenty feet high. 
Branches clothed with a short, white indumentum. Leaves 
alternate, long-stalked, without the stalk usually four to 
eight inches long, sometimes larger, sometimes smaller, 
ovate-oblong, cordate or rounded at the base, uppermost 
cuneate, few-lobed, lobes short, obtuse, dark green above, 
white beneath; stalks one to three inches long. Jlower- 
heads very numerous, two to three lines in diameter, 
sessile, arranged in large terminal, pyramidal panicles, 
longer than the leaves; branches white. Bracts of the 
involucre six to eight, uniseriate, oblong, scarious. 
Flowers eight to twelve in a head, scarcely two lines long. 
Corolla white, lobes recurved. Anthers yellow. Achenes 
very small, papillose. Pappus white, silky.—W. Bortine 
Hemstry, 
Fig. 1, a flower-head; 2, a ray-flower; 3, a disk-flower; 4, anthers ; 5, upper 
part of style and stigmas :—a/l enlarged. 
