3 ?8 , Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand. 



laciniis patulis suborbicularibus obtusis, staminibus brevissimis fauci insertis, 

 stylo tubo perianthii duplo longiore. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 175. 



New Zealand (Middle Island), shores of Tasman's Bay. — 1827, D'Urville. 

 (Northern Island), on dry hills, among fern, Bay of Islands. — 1834, R. Cun- 

 ningham. 



PROTEACE.E. 

 1. Persoonia, Smith. 



349. P. Tora, foliis elongato-laciniatis acutis basi attenuatis strictis sub- 

 falcatis obsolete trinervibus utrinqne glabris nitidis, racemis axillaribus latera- 

 libusve multifloris, pedunculis perianthiisque tomento ferrugineo tcctis, ova- 

 viis glabris dispermis epedicellatis, caule arborescenti, cortice lsevi. A. 

 Cunn.in Bot. Mag. t. 3513. — Tora incolis audit, unde nomen triviale. 



New Zealand (Northern Island), on the wooded ridges of the highest hills 

 near Wangaroa, near the shores of the Bay of Islands, and in the great 

 Forest near Hokianga, &c. — 1826, A. Cunningham. — 1833, R. Cunningham. 



Obs. Arbor sempervirens, 20 — 40 pedes alta, potius gracilis, admodum 

 venusta, et in habitu omnino aliquot specierum Acaciarum aphyllarum, 

 trunco erecto ad basin diametro 6 uncias sequante, cortice laevi, sursum ra- 

 mosissimo. Folia altera a, versus apices ramulorum confertiora, elongata, 

 coriacea, valde glabra, supra nitidissima, venosa, saspe sex uncias longa, et 

 semiunciam lata. Racemi plerumque axillares, erecti multiflori, tomento 

 rubiginoso tecti, flores unibracteati. Ovarium glabrum, dispermum, sessile, 

 vel epedicellatum. Glandules hypogyna 4, brevissimse. Stigma depresso- 

 capitatum. Drupa baccata, putamine biloculari. 



2. Knightia, Brown in Linn. Soc. Trans., v. 10. 



350. K. excelsa,foYu$ oblongo-ellipticis lanceolato-oblongisve obtusis co- 

 riaceis glabris profunde serratis, serraturis remotis, racemis axillaribus sub- 

 sessilibus multifloris, perianthiis ferrugineo-tomentosis, bracteis (parvis) so- 

 litariis deciduis, stylis elongatis persistentibus, caule arborescenti. Br. in 

 Linn. Soc. Trans, vol. x. p. 194. tab. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. iii. p. 431. 

 — Rewa-rewa of the natives. Yate. 



Obs. Distinctum a Ropala affini, seminibus quaternis, apice solum alatis. 

 —R. Br. 



*New Zealand (Northern Island), east coast. A noble tree, often eighty 

 feet high, discovered at Opuraga (Mercury Bay, in lat. 36° 45' S.) and near 

 Tolaga (Howa-Howa Bay, 38° 22' S.)— 1769, Sir Jos. Banks. Dry forests 

 near the Bay of Islands and Wangaroa. — 1826, A. Cunningham. — 1833,72. 

 Cunningham. 



* The hitherto very obscurely known Embothrium strobilinum of M. La- 

 billardiere, erroneously stated by that author to be a native of Western 

 Australia (Terra de Leuwin), has been at length ascertained by Mr. Brown 

 to belong to the above genus, its ovarium containing 4 ovules. The struc- 

 ture however of the matured seeds is not yet ascertained. In the mean time, 

 it may be considered a Knightia, though, as Mr. Brown suggests, of a di- 

 stinct section from K. excelsa, and may be thus characterized : 



K. integrifolia {Encarpha), foliis obovato-oblongis subspathulatis integris, 

 racemis densis obovato-capitatis, axillaribus pedunculatis, perianthiis glabris, 



