Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand. 205 



On the hazel, Holywood, near Belfast, Ireland, Mr. Haliday. Found 

 near London. 



Fern. Corpus longum, angustum, sublineare, nitens, scitissime squameum, 

 parce hirtum : caput transversum, breve, thorace paullo latius ; vertex la- 

 tus; frons abrupte declivis: oculi mediocres : antennae capitatge, thorace paullo 

 breviores ; articulus l us gracilis, fusiformis; 2 US longicyathiformis ; 3 ,,s , 4 US et 

 5 Us sublineares, sequales ; clava ovata, articulo 5° multo latior et plus duplo 

 longior : thorax longiovatus, parum convexus : prothorax conspicuus, lati- 

 tudine longior, antice angustus : mesothoracis scutum depression, latitudine 

 longius ; parapsidum suturse non bene determinate ; seutellum obconicum : 

 metathorax mediocris : petiolus brevissimus : abdomen longiovatum, de- 

 pression, apice acuminatum, thorace paullo latius vix longius ; segmentum 

 l um magnum, 2 um et sequentia brevia : pedes graciles, simplices, subaequales ; 

 tarsis articulus l us brevis, 4 US longus; ungues et pulvilli minuti : alis nervus 

 ulnaris humerali longior, cubitalis sat longior, stigma parvum subfurcatum 

 fingens j radialis brevissimus. 



[To be continued.] 



XXVI. — Florae Insularum Novce Zelandice Precursor; or a 

 Specimen of the Botany of the Islands of Neiv Zealand. 

 By Allan Cunningham, Esq. 



[Continued from p. 132.] 



RUBIACE^E, {Juss). 



(Operculars, A. Rich.) 



1. Opercularia, Gcertn., A. Rich. 



466. 0. diphylla, foliis , capitulis ex dichotomia ramorum stipitatis 



sphsericis involucris setoso-hispidis in capitulo pluribus 3 — 4 floris, corollis 

 tetrandris. DC. Prodr. iv. p. 616. Gcertn. Ro?m. et Sch. Syst. Veg. iii. 

 p. 337. — Rubioides diphylla. Soland. Ms. in Bill. Banks. 



New Zealand.— 1769, Sir Jos. Banks. 



467. O. aspera, foliis oblongis scabris venosis, floribus capitatis pedun- 

 culis axillaribus. DC. Prodr. iv. p. 616. Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. p. 385. Gcertn. 

 Roejn. et Sch. Syst. Veg. iii. p. 334. — Rubioides aspera. Sol. Ms. in Bill. 

 Banks. 



2. Galium, L. Juss. 



468. G. tenuicaule, annuum, caule debili valde attenuato tetragono re- 

 trorsum aspero, foliis quaternis spathulato-oblongis acutis basi angustatis 

 aculeato-scabris, pedunculis axillaribus subtrifloris, folium subaequantibus, 

 fructibus globoso-didymis glabris. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Damp woods on the Keri-Keri and 

 Wangaroa rivers. — 1834, R. Cunningham. 



469. G. propinquum, annuum, caule attenuato debili decumbente tetra- 

 gono glabro membranaceo, foliis quaternis (4 lineas longis) ellipticis acutis 

 petiolatis margine aculeato-hispidis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis folio vix 

 longioribus, fructibus glabris globoso-didymis minutim tuberculatis. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Shaded woods, Wangaroa. — 1833, R. 

 Cunningham. 



