268 Transactions. — Botany. 



F. colensoi, Hook, f., Handbk. N.Z. Flora, 728. 



A small erect or prostrate slirub with slender branchlets. 

 Leaves alternate, ovate or orbicular-ovate, rounded or cordate 

 at the base, acute, very membranous when dry, obscurely 

 toothed, rarely silvery beneath ; petioles very slender, longer 

 or shorter than the leaves. Flowers as in F. excorticata, but 

 the calyx -tube rather wider at the mouth, and the petals 

 minute. 



Hob. Lower Waikato, southward to Stewart Island; 

 more frequent in the South. Ascends to 1,500ft. Flowers 

 October to February. 



This species is local in many districts, and always less 

 abundant than the preceding ; the flowers are never produced 

 in such profusion. In some places the unbranched flexuous 

 shoots are 8ft. or 9ft. long and subscandent ; in others the 

 entire plant scarcely exceeds a foot in height. 



F. procumbens, K. Cunn., MSS. in A. Cunn., Precurs., 



n. 531. 



Stems extremely slender, prostrate, 6in. - 18in. long. 

 Leaves alternate, rounded - ovate or cordate, obscurely 

 toothed, Jin.-iin. in length, shorter than the slender petioles. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, iin.-f in. long, on erect peduncles ; 

 calyx-tube funnel-shaped, without raised ridges, not dilated 

 at the base ; segments oblong, acute, recurved. Petals 0. 

 Stamens equal; style varying in length, stigma capitate, 

 four-lobed. Berry large, clavate, glaucous, bright-red. Hook., 

 Ic. PL, t. 421; Raoul, Enum. PI. N.Z., 49; Hook, f., Fl. 

 N.Z., i., 57 ; Handbk. N.Z. Fl., 76. F. Jcirkii, Hook, f., Ic. PI., 

 t. 1083. 



Hab. North Island. In sandy or rocky places near 

 high- water mark ; rare and local. Matauri ; Whangaruru ; 

 Cape Colville Peninsula; Great Barrier Island. November 

 to February. 



This appears to be the only species with erect flowers, 

 and the only apetalous species with the calyx-tube destitute 

 of external longitudinal ridges. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIX. 



Fuchsia excorticata, L. f. 



1. Long-styled form. 2. Mid-styled form. 3. Short -styled form. 

 Fuchsia colensoi, Hook. f. 



4. Long-styled form. 5. Mid-styled form. 

 Fuchsia procumbens, R. Cunn. 



G. Long-styled form. 7. Mid-styled form. 8. Short-styled form. 

 9. The same in longitudinal section. 



