208 Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand. 



entier dans son bord, est un caractere qui ne s'est offert a nous dans 

 aucune autre espece du genre. Peutetre que si nous avions pu etudier 

 l'organisation des diverses parties de la fleur, nous eussions ete porte 

 a faire de notre plante un genre nouveau." A. Rich. 

 Affinis Psychotrice, sed bacca non costata. 



5. Nertera, Banks in Gcertn. Fr. Juss. 



481. N. depressa. DC. iv. p. 451. Forst. Prodr. n. 501. Smith lc. hied. 

 ii. t. 28. — Gomozia granadensis. Mutis in Linn. Suppl. p. 29. 



6. Geophila, Don, Prodr. FL Nep. 136. 

 {Psychotrice, Sp. L.) 

 Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis linearibus patenti-recurvis. Corolla tubulosa, 

 fauces pilosse lobis 5 ovatis subrecurvis. Antherce 5 inclusae. Stigma 

 bifidum. Bacca ovoidea costato-angulata calyce coronata bilocularis 

 disperma. 



482. G.I dichondrce folia, hispido-pilosa, foliis (semiuncialibus) latissime 

 ellipticis subreniformibusve cordatis acuminatis petiolum sequantibus, flori- 

 bus fructibus subsessilibus solitariis terminalibus. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). In dry woods on the shores of the Bay 

 of Islands, at Waimate, Hokianga, &c. — 1834, R. Cunningham. "Bearing 

 orange-coloured berries" in December. 



I have been induced to refer this plant (clearly, I conceive,) of 

 Rubiace<£ to Geophila of Don, as much from its habit, as from the struc- 

 ture of its fruit, reported to be an orange-coloured bacca. 

 7. Viscum, L. 



483. V. antarcticum, ramis compresso-teretibus, ramulis ancipitibus, foliis 

 oblongo-ovatis basi attenuatis petiolatis obtusis undulatis, enerviis, racemis, 

 ramis axillaribus terminal ibusve patentibus articulatis. Forst. Prodr. n. 370. 

 A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel.p.269. DC. Prodr. iv. p. 285.— Tupeia antarctica. 

 Schlechtend. in Linneea, ii. p. 203. 



New Zealand (Middle Island). — 1773, G. Forster. (Northern Island,) 

 parasitical on Avicennia tomentosa, Br., on the banks of the Kana-Kana river. 

 — 1834, R. Cunningham. 



484. V. pubigerum, ramis teretibus laevibus dichotomis, foliis elliptico- 

 rhomboideis obtusis basi attenuatis venosis margine asperis, nervo medio ramu- 

 lisque pubescentibus, floribus terminalibus lateralibusve umbellato-racemosis. 



Tiran-riki, incol., R. Cunn. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Upon several trees on river banks, at 

 the Bay of Islands. A. Cunningham. 



485. V. salicornoides, aphyllum, ramosissimum, ramis teretibus articulatis, 

 vaginis dilatatis. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Parasitical on Leptospermam scoparium, 

 the Kahihitra of the natives, Keri-Keri river, Bay of Islands. — 1834, R, 

 Cunningham. 



8. Loranthus, L. 



486. L. telrapetalus, L. Forst. Prodr. n. 156. Schult. Syst. Veg. y\\.p. 

 60. DC. Prodr. iv..p. 295. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 268. 



