46 Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand. 



slipulata, Integra, venosa ; stipules in vaginas intrapetiolares connata?. 

 Flores axillares, subverticillati, cymosi. Pedunculi subsimplices, fili- 

 formes, bracteis birds medio instrncti. 



401. G. ligustrifolium, fruticosum, foliis ellipticis ovatisve acuminatis sub- 

 tus discoloribus, laciniis corollse refiexis, stigmate depresso-capitato. — G. 

 rupestris. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 207. non Forst.— Aspilotum laevigatum. 

 Banks et Sol. Mss. Hunghi hunghi Incol. R. Cunn. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). — 1769, Sir Jos. Banks. In dry woods, 

 Bay of Islands.— 182C, A. Cunningham.— 1827, ^UrvilleL.— 1834, R. Cun- 

 ningham. 



APOCYNEiE, R. Br. 



1. Parsonsia, Br . 



402. P. heterophylla', paniculis terminalibus, tubo corollae laciniis calycis 

 triplo longiore, foliis ovato-lanceolatis integerrimis mncronatis vel elongato- 

 lanceolatis attenuatis repandis, ramulis pubescentibus. Periploca capsularis. 

 Forst. A.Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 205.— Pi Incolarum. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Shady woods at Wangaroa. — 1826, 

 A. Cunningham. At Hokianga, &c. — 1834, R. Cunningham. 



Upon comparing specimens of this plant recently gathered with 

 authentic samples of Periploca capsularis, Forst. (in the Banks. Herb.) 

 they appear identically the same species. Yet the latter is described 

 by its discoverer (Prodr. n. 126) as having small flowers in axillary 

 racemes shorter than the leaves, and the tube of the corolla shorter 

 than the segments of the calyx. According to Sprengel, Forster's 

 plant is identical with Echites corymbosa (Jacq. Amer.) 



OLEINEiE, Hoffmansegg # Link. 

 Olea, L. 



403. O. apetala, Vahl. Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norf. p. 56. Rcem. et Sch. Syst. 

 Veg.\. p. 71. Excl. syn. Andrewsii. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). A tree 25 feet high, on the banks of 

 rivers, &c. — 1769, Sir Jos. Banks. — 1826, A. Cunningham. 



The iron wood of the earlier colonists on Norfolk island, where it 

 attains a height of forty feet. 



SAPOTEiE, Juss. 



ACHRAS, L. 



404. A. costata. Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norf. p. 49. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). A small tree between the villages of 

 Ngaire and Wainai, opposite the Cavallos Isles, off the east coast. — 1833, 

 R. Cunningham. 



Obs. The specimens with which I have been furnished, without 

 fructification, have been compared with those indigenous to Norfolk 

 Island ; and so far as the venation, general structure and figure of 



