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wavy reddish, thicker longer and subciliate at margins ; 9-10- 

 veined ; veins pale, sunk in the upper surface, slightly con- 

 spicuous beneath ; veinlets closely anastomosing, forming long 

 narrow angular areoles ; margins coarsely and irregularly cre- 

 nate-serrate ; petiole If in. long, 2 lines wide, stoutish, brown, 

 hairy ; hairs long appressed strigillose reddish ; stipules at 

 base small narrow. Flowering-stems 9in. high, solid, stout 

 below nearly lin. diameter, two springing together from a 

 single basal leaf; leaf subovate acuminate, stout, lamina 3^in. 

 long 1^-in. wide many-nerved (9) ; veinlets anastomosing ; tip 

 very obtuse ; lateral margins coarsely serrate with 6-7 broad 

 teeth, gradually tapering to base ; petiole lin. long, very 

 broad flatfish and thick, nerves continued down petiole ; small 

 stipules at base ; each flower-stem trichotomous 4in. from 

 base, surrounded by a pair of bract-like sessile oblong leaves 

 Hin. long; pedicels 1-flowered, stout, sub 6in. long, with (in 

 one specimen) a whorl of three leafy bracts about the middle, 

 subovate sessile, irregular in size and in cutting, the largest 

 having a pair of large lateral teeth almost trifid, the others 

 entire, hairy, margins ciliate ; hairs wavy reddish ; and in the 

 other specimen with a single trifid bract. Flowers: Calyx pale 

 greenish-yellow ; sepals 5, linear obovate, Jin. long, sub 2 lines 

 wide, tip obtuse, concave, distant, hairy, margins ciliate, much 

 veined ; vein single at base, 5-branched at middle and united 

 at top. Corolla pale-yellow glistening, lin. diameter ; petals 

 numerous (40-45) in 3 rows, recurved, cuneate, 8 lines long 

 2i lines wide, much veined, more so than sepal ; tip rounded 

 very obtuse entire ; base tapering, claw long ; gland small 

 orbicular, about 1 line above base. Anthers numerous, stout, 

 before bursting broadly elliptic, afterwards elongated and 

 much narrower, deeply channelled on back, very glossy, same 

 colour as petals ; stamens broad flatfish as wide as anthers, 

 2-nerved. Carpels 0, but instead a few small greenish petaloid 

 leaves, much incurved and forming a small green ball. 



Hab. Euahine Mountain-range, east side, near summits of 

 lateral spurs; 1891 : Mr. A. Olsen, Norsewood. 



Obs. Of this fine and very peculiar plant I have only 

 received two flowering specimens, both, however, in good 

 condition. At first I thought it to be a " monster " flower of 

 B. insignis, Hook., or of B. ruahinicus, Col. ; but after a very 

 close and patient examination and comparison I find it to be 

 distinct, though, from its not possessing any carpels, but nu- 

 merous small petals in their place, it may prove to be a 

 " monster " (or double) flower. 



2. B. longijjetiolatus, sp. nov. 



Plant erect, glabrous, stolons few, short. Eoots numerous 

 long wiry very slender ; sometimes rooting at lower nodes of 



