460 Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand. 



usculis glabris capsula duplo brevioribus, spica multiflora, foliis cuneatis 

 obtusis crassiusculis, hinc illinc lateribus 1 — 2-dentatis, caule ramoso scabro. 

 Forst. Prodr. n. 234. H. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 191. Rata, Incolis. D'Ur- 

 ville. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). On rocks upon the sea-coast, Tolaga 

 Bay (Lat. 38° 22' S.)— 1769, Sir Jos. Banks.— 1827, D'Urville. 

 CYRTANDRACEiE, Jack in Linn. Tr. v. 14. p. 23. 

 Rhabdothamnus. 

 Calyx ovario basi adnatus, profunde 5-fidus, subbilabiatus. Corolla tubu- 

 losa, bilabiata -(seu limbo quinque-lobato), labio superiore bilobo, in- 

 feriore trilobo subaequali. Stamina quatuor, didynamia, et quinti ru- 

 dimentum. Anther ce omnes in discum lobatum cohserentes. Annu- 

 lus hypogynus carnosus. Stylus longitudine staminum. Stigma bila- 

 mellatum. Capsula sicca (venosa) rostrata, unilocularis, bivalvis, 

 valvis medio fissis, marginibus valvularum inflexis, placentis duabus 

 lanceolato-lamellatis pedicellatis parietalibus demum liberis. Semina 

 numerosa. Frutex ramosissimus, dumosus, virgatissimus, ramulis gra- 

 cilibus pallidis pilosis. Flores tubulosi, striati, sordide rubri seu rubi- 

 ginosi. Calyx tubulosus, persistens. Folia subrotundo-rhomboidea, sub- 

 cuneata, petiolata, scabra, grosse serrata, venosa. Pedunculus uni- 

 fiorus. 

 Obs. Nomen genericum e Grsecis vocabulis px$)o$ virga, et Sxpvos frutex, 

 ob virgatissimum fruticis habitum. 



385. R. Solandri. — Columnea scabrosa. Sol. Mss. in Bibl. Banks. 

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



in the vicinity of the Bay of Islands. Wangaroa, &c. — 1826, Allan Cun- 

 ningham. — 1834, Richard Cunningham. 



SOLANE.E, Juss. 



SOLANUM, L. 



386. S. laciniatum. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. Br. Prodr. 1. p. 445. non Ruizii. 

 Rcem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 4. p. 578. Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 349. Willd. Sp. PL 1. 

 p. 1030, et Enum. PL 1. p. 284.— S. aviculare, Forst. Prodr. n. 107. A. 

 Rich. Fl, Nov. Zel. p. 193. 



New Zealand. In damp woods. Cook's Strait.— 1773, G. Forster. 

 (Northern Island.) — 1769, Sir Jos. Banks. Bay of Islands. — 1826, A. Cun- 

 ningham. Poro-Poro, Ineol. D'Urville. 



Some botanists, and, among them, Dunal and A. Richard, doubt 

 the identity of the plant of Hortus Kewensis and that of Forster. 

 The latter says of the plum- like fruit of S. aviculare, which Cook's 

 sailors ate when they observed that the birds did not refuse them, 

 ** hujus baccse fulvae, pruni majoris magnitudine, acidee, parum dul- 

 cescentes, subnauseosse, ab Incolis Novse Zelandise avide vorantur, 

 aviculis etiam gratissimse, neque nostratibus omnino rejicienda?." 



Solanum tuberosum, L., is enumerated by A. Richard in his ' Flora/ 

 p. 194, although admitted to be a plant introduced by Europeans, 

 and now generally cultivated by the natives, who call it Tihon. 



