462 Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand. 



and underground. For ship building it is (like the teak, which belongs 

 to the same order) a most valuable wood ; as the injury which it has 

 received from being perforated in various places, by a large grub 

 peculiar to the tree, does not essentially diminish its value for the 

 timbers of ships or for the knees of boats. It grows from fifteen to 

 thirty feet without a branch, and varying from twelve to twenty feet 



in circumference." 



LABIATiE, Juss. 

 Micromeria, Bentham. 

 Calyx tubulosus, 13 rarius sub-15-striatus, 5-dentatus. Corolla; tubus 

 sequalis, rectus ; limbus bilabiatus, labium superius integrum vel emar- 

 ginatum. Stamina 4, didynama, inferiora longiora adscendentia, apice 

 perparia appproximata, vel rarius subdivergentia. Antherce libera?, bi- 

 loculares. 



391. M. Cunninghamii, (Benth.) caule herbaceo prostrato tenuiter pube- 

 scente, foliis petiolatis rotundatis subintegerrimis, pedicellis elongatis nudis, 

 calycibus hirsutis, dentibus ovato-lanceolatis, fauce intus nuda. Benth. Lab. 

 Gen. and Sp. Suppl. p. 730. — Thymi species. R. C. Mss. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). At Manga Muka, on the Hokianga 

 river. — 1834, R. Cunningham. 



Obs. Calyx magnitudine M. Douglasii et pari modo post anthesin ovato- 

 globosus. Dentes intus villosi, sed faux nuda. Corolla tubo incluso, mag- 

 nitudine et forma M. satureoides et australis. (Mentha; sp. R. Br.) 



A very remarkable species as belonging to the American section 



Hesperothymus, and indeed very nearly allied to M. Brownei {Thymus 



Brownei, Swartz) a West Indian and South American plant. Benth. 



in lift. 



BORAGINEiE, Juss. 



1. Anchusa, L. 



392. A. spathulata, caule filiformi procumbente, foliis petiolatis ovatis ob- 

 tusis piloso-hispidis distantibus, pedicellis laterifoliis solitariis, nucibus laevi- 

 bus. Roem. and Sch. Syst. Veg. iv. p. 100. — Myosotis spathulata. Forst. 

 Prodr. n. 62. Willd. Sp. PL \.p. 748. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 1 98. 



New Zealand (Middle Island).'— 1778, G. Forster. Astrolabe Harbour, 

 — 1827, D'Urville. (Northern Island), dry rocky elevated spots. Wangaroa. 

 — 1 826, A. Cunningham. 



Obs. Veram esse Anchusam plantse recentis indagator. R. Br. Prodr. 



p. 494. 



2. Myosotis, L. 



393. M. Forsteri; foliis obovato-spathulatis strigoso-hispidis, racemis 

 ebracteatis, pedicellis in fructu erecto-patentibus longitudine calycis, laciniis 

 calycis oblongis obtusiusculis trinervibus. Lehm. Asper. p. 95. Roem. and 

 Sch. Syst. Veg. iv. p. 779. Endl. Syn. Fl. Insul. Occ. Austr. in Ann. des 

 Wien. Mus. Band i. p. 174. n. 1221. 



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

 [To be continued.] 



