358 Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand, 



venosa. Racemi copiosi, interdum bini, spicati, tripollicaves. Stamina ex- 

 serta, subrequalia. Pedicelli floribus longiores. Capsula ovata, villosiuscula, 

 costata. Discus hypogynus S-glandulosus. Seminum structura mihi ignota. 



3. Leiospermum, Don. 

 ( Weinmannice sp. L. Forst.) 

 Calyx 4-fidus, deciduus. Petala 4. Stamina 8. Discus hypogynus planus, 

 integer. Capsula ab apice septicido-dehiscens : loculis polyspermis. 

 Semina minuta, oblonga, glabra. — Arbores semper virentes (Novce Ze- 

 landice el Tahitensis). Folia simplicia, impari-pinnataque, serrata. 

 Stipulae caduca. Flores racemosi. 



519. L. racemosa, petiolis apice articulatis, racemis subsolitariis. Don. 

 in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. {June 1830) p. 8. — Weinmannia racemosa. L. 

 Forst. Prodr. n. 173. Willd. Sp. PI. 2. p. 438. DC. Prodr. iv. p. 8. A. 

 Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 321. — W. speciosa. Banks and Sol. Mss. in Bibl. 

 Panics. 



Towai, incol., R. C. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). — 1769, Sir Jos. BanJcs. In shaded 

 woods and on the margins of running steams near the Bay of Islands. — 

 1826, A. Cunningham. (Middle Island). — 1773, G. Forster. Astrolabe 

 Harbour.— 1 827, Z)' Urville. 



Obs. Arbor robusta, triginta vel quadriginta pedalis. Folia lato-elliptica, 

 vel elliptico-oblonga, subtus pulchre venulosa, 2 — 3-pollicaria. Racemi ter- 

 minates, plerumque bini, 3 — 4-unciales. 



In Mr. Don's monograph of this family the author gives New Zea- 

 land as the locality of L. parviflorum, on the authority of Forster. 

 Having, however, examined a specimen of that rare plant in the 

 Banksian Herbarium, where Tahiti alone is marked as its native 

 country, it appears evident that it is a mistake of this learned writer, 

 occasioned possibly by his having just previously described the type 

 of the genus, which both Sir Jos. Banks and Forster found in great 

 abundance in New Zealand. Weinmannia parviflora of Forster has 

 been found only in the forests of Tahiti. 



4. Ackama. 



Calyx 5-partitus, persistens ; laciniis lineari-spathulatis. Petala 5, inte- 

 gra, decidua. Stamina 10, aequalia. Discus hypogynus subcrateriformis, 

 dentatus, seu 10-glandulosus. Capsula ab apice septicido-dehiscens, 

 loculis polyspermis. Semina minuta, ovata, rostrata, testa spadicea : co- 

 riacea, glabra. 



The name of this distinct genus has been invented by anagram - 

 mizing that given to the tree by the natives. 



520. A. roscefolia. — Weinmannia rossefolia. A. C. Mss. 1826. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). In shaded woods near the Hokianga 

 river, where it usually flowers in September. — 1826, A. Cunningham. — 

 1834, R. Cu?mingha?n. 



