38 FLORA ANTARCTICA. [Auckland and 



cortice tenaci e fibris crassis parallelis tomento denso albido adpresso vestito, foliis alternis petiolatis 

 amplis 8 pollicares ad pedalem longis late elliptico-ovatis acutis v. acuminatis crenato-dentatis valde 

 coriaceis supra (costa basi excepta) glaberrimis laete viridibus nervis reticulatis subtus tomento 

 appresso dense lanatis, venis prominulis, junioribus ad apices ramulorum convolutis lanatis basique 

 dense argenteo-sericeis pilis longioribus, petiolo valido ~ unc. longo basi dilatato semiamplexicauli 

 tomentoso § unc. longo. — Caetera ignota. 



Hab. Lord Auckland's group ; Ewing Island, a small islet at the mouth of Rendezvous Har- 

 bour, D. Lyall, Esq. 



Of this plant Mr. Lyall remarks, " A short stout trunk rises a few inches above the ground, and then sends 

 off horizontally patent branches, which radiate as from a common centre for 10 or 12 feet on all sides, a little 

 above the surface of the earth. The leafy apices then ascend. The leaves are of a dark green colour, which 

 they lose in drying." A piece of the wood which accompanied the specimen is about 1| inch in diameter ; 

 the bark of a light grey colour, rather thin and soft, deeply grooved on the surface, the grooves corresponding 

 to sinuous, anastomosing, longitudinal ridges, enclosing elongated, somewhat lozenge- shaped spaces ; the wood 

 is whitish or pale yellow, hard, tough and close-grained, the layers indistinct, and the medullary rays nume- 

 rous and very slender ; it resembles the stem of some shrubby species of Ozothamnus. This fine plant is most 

 remarkable for the size and thick coriaceous texture of the leaves, which are in many respects similar to those 

 of the genus Brachyglottis, Forst. I have seen nothing like it in the collections of Banks and Solander, 

 Forster or Menzies. It is a rare plant in the islands now under consideration, and will probably be found to be 

 a native of the southern extremity of New Zealand. 



XVI. STYLIDIE^, Br. 



1. FORSTERA, L. 



Flores monoici v. dioici. Calyx basi bibracteolatus, limbo 3-G-partito, segmentis erectis. Corolla tubu- 

 loso-campanulata, tubo brevi v. elongato, limbo 4-9-partito, segmentis inajqualibus, sestivatione imbricatis, 1-2 

 ext. majoribus, patulis concavis, fauce nuda v. glanduloso-incrassata. Glandulce epigynts 2, opposite, semi- 

 lunares, staminibus alternre. Anthera ad apicem columnar opposite, divaricate, reniformes, spurie biloculares, 

 rima transversali dehiscentes, valvula superiore majore fornicata. Pollen 3-5-angulatum. Stylus intra colum- 

 nam occlusus. Stigma (v. apex styli) minimum, 2-lobum (an 4-lobum ?), ramis floribus fertilibus porrectis, 

 superne villosis v. subplumosis. Ovarium obovatum, carnosum, uniloculare, rarius biloculare, multiovulatum, 

 ovulis columnar centrali f uniculis brevibus adnexis, ascendentibus. Capsula ovalis, unilocularis. — Yierhx parvx, 

 perennes, glabra, coriaceo-.:arnos(P, antarcticte seu montibus altisshnis Nova Zelandia provenientes. Folia imbricata. 

 Flores in summos ramos sessiles, v. pedunculos elongates solitarii v. bini. — Endl. 



^ Helophyllum, Hook, til.; floribus sessilibus solitariis, culycis limbo 5-6-parlilo, lobis aquu- 

 libus,foliorum apicibus nodoso-incrassatis. 



1. Forster a clavigera, Hook. fil. ; densissime et compacte crespitosa, caulibus erectis parce 

 ramosis, foliis arete imbricatis semiteretibus apicibus nodoso-incrassatis, floribus terminalibus sessi- 

 libus solitariis. (Tab. XXVIII.) 



Hab. Lord Auckland's group and Campbell's Island; on the mountains in turfy and boggy 

 places, very common. 



Caules erecti, stricti, parce ramosi, densissime compacti, cespites firmos fragiles formantes, per totam lon- 

 gitudinem foliosi, hinc illinc axillis foliorum radices fibrosas emittentes, fibris validis elongatis fuscis horizon- 

 taliter patentibus carnosis simpliciusculis, et deorsum in radices subsimiles gradatim attenuate, 1^—2 polli- 



