highly interesting Order of the plant here figured ; namely, 
a sali of Piatt: of goolly oren stature, and. 
moreover, the inhabitant of a country, in which the Genus 
has never been supposed to exist. | f 
It may be just premised, that as far as the Botany of the 
Islands of New Zealand has been investigated, from the — 
days of Sir Josern Banxs and Dr. Soranpver in the first — 
voyage of our great circumnavigator, down to the present 
period, Botanists have been made acquainted with but a 
solitary example of the family Prorgaces, existing on those 
Islands. In that individual, truly, the Order has there, a | 
very noble representative, viz. Knicuria excelsa, a laree 
tree, often to be seen from sixty to eighty feet in height, in — 
the drier forests. This observation of the bare existence of 
an Order on those Islands, so abundant in the neighbouring 
continent of Australia, is the more remarkable, since in the 
southern latitudes of this latter vast country, (in which is 
included Van Diemen’s Land,) and in the same parallels in 
South America, which also intersect New Zealand, Emporn- 
rium as limited by Mr. Brown, and Lomartia of the same 
very eminent botanist, furnish several species ; which, affect- 
ing as they do cool regions, and rather humid localities, 
might reasonably be expected to hold a standing also, on 
the latter intermediate Islands. Neither the one Genus, nor 
the other, have yet been discovered there, but a species of 
Prrsoonia—a Genus hitherto limited in geographic range 
to New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land, was observed at 
Wangaroa, in 1826, and may be thus defined :— 
P. Toru, foliis elongato-lanceolatis acutis basi attenuatis strictis sub- 
falcatisve obsoleté trinervibus utrinque glabris nitidis, racemis axillaribus 
lateralibusve multifloris, pedunculis perianthiisque tomento ferrugineo 
tectis, ovariis glabris dispermis epedicellatis, caule arborescenti, cortice 
. 
levi. 
: ; ‘. 
Incolis Zoru audit, unde nomen triviale. 
Has. In Nove Zelandiw insula septentrionali: prope sinum Bay of 
Islands dictum ; et in montosis sylvaticis viciniA oppidulum Wangaroa, 
(altitudine supra oceanum 1000 circiter pedum); nec non in sylva 
primeva, (“Great Forest” dicta) versus flumen Hokianga ; alibique 
inter pagulos Indicos Wytangy et Keri-Keri, in nemoribus. 
Lecta cum fructibus immaturis mense Novembri, et verosimiliter in 
mensibus Septembri, Octobrique, florens. 1826. Al, Cunn. 1833. 
b. Rich. Cunningham. 
Arbor sempervirens, viginti ad quadraginta pedes alta, potiis gracilis, 
admodum venusta, et in habitu omnind aliquot specierum Acaciarum 
aphyllarum ; trunco erecto ad basin diametro 6-uncias equante, cortice 
levi, 
