p.. J ON A NEW KIND OF PHORMIUM. 
Colensoi, À think it proper to assign, at least provisionally, a name 
to our species, and agreeably to Sir William Hooker's wish, I 
propose to dedicate it to the most celebrated English Navigator, 
who, first, discovered and made known the New Zealand Flax. 
I will then give a comparative description of the two kinds that 
are now in France; the diagnosis of the yellow-flowered one has 
been digested after the notes and drawings made at Paris by M. 
Decaisne, who had the kindness to communicate them to me; 
the description of the Phormium of Cherbourg has been written 
from the living plant. 
Paormivm, Forster. 
1. Ph. éenax; folis supra viridibus subtus glaucescentibus, 
perigonii segmentis exterioribus aurantiaco-flavis, interioribus 
luteis, stylo luteo, ovario angulatim triquetro sulcato rubro. Ph. 
tenaz, auct. passim. 
2. Ph. Cookianum; foliis subconcoloribus, scapo subangulato 
glauco-virescente, perigonii segmentis exterioribus atro-sanguineis 
interioribus viridibus, stylo badio, ovario obtuse trigono luteo- 
virescente. An Ph. Colensoi, Hook. fil. MSS. ? 
Folia reniformia, rigida, angustiora, basi conduplicata, a medio 
ad apicem planiuscula, dorso carinata, integerrima, glabra, supra 
viridia, subtus subconcoloria, pallidiora, leviter striata. Scapus 
sub 4-pedalis, erecto-ascendens, subangulatus, apice subrugatus, 
glauco-virescens, ramosus. Racemi alterni secundi, distantes, 
glauco-virescentes, iterum racemosi, in spathis membranaceis ante 
efflorescentiam erecto involuti, dein horizontaliter patentes. Spa- 
the lanceolatæ, sagittatæ, acute, conduplicatze, carinatæ, membra- 
naceæ, striate, luteo-virides, post efflorescentiam deciduæ. Pedi- 
celli uniflori, articulati, nigro-brunnei, rugati, erecti. Peri- 
gonii corollini limbus sexpartitus in tubum obtuse triquetrum sub- 
arcuatum adscendentem pollicarem connivens; segmenta 3 exte- 
riora paulo breviora, dorso elevatiora, atro-sanguinea, apice auran- 
tiaca, subacuta, 3 interiora viridia apice rotundato-subreflexa con- 
cava. Stamina sex exserta, inzequalia, filamentis coccineis. Anthe- 
ræ sagittatæ, acute, aurantiacæ. Stylus ascendens, badius. Ova- 
rium obtuse trigonum, luteo-viride, sæpe tortum. Capsula subte- 
