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from their striking contrast to the dark-green of its foliage. 

 It flowers in September, and bears ripe fruit in April and 

 May. 



2. C. turbinata, sp. nov. 



A much-branched erect shrub, 8ft. - 9ft. high ; bark 

 smooth, shining, red-brown ; branches suberect and spread- 

 ing ; branchlets opposite, numerous, slender, divergent at 

 right - angles, their tips puberulent when young. Leaves 

 small, 2-3 lines long, numerous yet rather distant in pairs, 

 spreading, obovate, very obtuse, subcoriaceous ; veins reticu- 

 late, obscure ; stipules small, blunt, glabrous. Flowers : 

 male, plentiful, 1-2-3 together, each single, subfascicled. 

 Calyx (and corolla) glabrous, shining, small, 4-parted ; lobes 

 irregular, 2 long and 2 short, subdeltoid, obtuse. Corolla 

 4-cleft ; lobes subovate, acute, recurved. Anthers large for 

 flower, 4, exserted, nodding, linear-oblong, subapiculate, 

 base sagittate : female, laot seen. Fruit small, lateral, soli- 

 tary, often opposite on branch, turbinate, 1-li- lines long, 

 yellow when ripe ; peduncle short, stoutish. Seeds rather 

 large for fruit, round, white, flattish, 1 line diameter. 



Hab. Sides of streamlets, edges of woods, south of Danne- 

 virke. County of Waipawa ; 1890-91 : W. C. 



Obs. This shrub has a general resemblance to the preced- 

 ing species, C. alba (although it is a much smaller plant, with 

 smaller and difi'erently-shaped leaves), also to C. aurantiaca, 

 Col. (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxii., p. 464), but differs in several 

 characters from both, especially in its fruit. Female plants, 

 that were loaded with fruit last autumn, had not a single 

 flower on them this spring, although the male plants close by 

 were flowering in rich profusion. I went thither (a long 

 tramp !) purposely to obtain flowering specimens of both sexes, 

 and was much disappointed in not detecting those of the 

 female plant. 



Order XLIL Erice^. 



Genus 1. Gaultheria, Linn. 

 1. G. vmUibracteolata, sp. nov. 



Plant (apparently) a stoutish shrub, my specimens of 

 forked branches being 5in.-6in. long ; bark pale, glabrous, 

 shining. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, lin.-liin. long, 

 slightly cordate (those on lower stem broader and more cor- 

 date), pale-green, coriaceous, glabrous, tip subacute, thick- 

 ened, margins crenate-serrate with sharp black teeth, veins 

 much reticulate ; petioles short, stoutish ; young leaves mem- 

 branaceous and bright-red, with a few long coarse flexuous 

 reddish hairs scattered on veins below. Flowers in small few- 

 branched compact terminal panicles l^in. long; branches 



