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this one plant (though G. antipoda {vera) is both fine and very 

 plentiful in dry open spots in that locality, as I have already 

 noted), so that, should other plants not befallen in with here- 

 after, the question may again arise (with others as it did with 

 nie) whether this plant is not a sportive form of G. antipoda, 

 and the oi'igin of a species nova. 



2. G. siihcorynihosa , sp. nov. 



Shrub 3ft.-4ft. high, much branched, diffuse; branches 

 (specimens) dichotomous, each 4in.-6in. long, and bearing 2-3 

 heads of flowers; branchlets spreading, slender, free, each 

 with a head of flowers ; bark red, roughish, with a few coarse 

 scattered appressed hairs. Leaves numerous, alternate, 

 patent, petiolate, sub-coriaceous, glabrous, uarrow-oblong- 

 lanceolate, 9-11 lines long, closely serrate throughout, ser- 

 ratures and tip obtuse, green on both sides a little paler 

 below ; veinlets clear, pale, much reticulated, causing many 

 sinall oblong and variously-shaped dots ; petioles sub 1 line 

 long, glabrous. Flowers terminal in spreading corymbose 

 panicles lin. diameter, containing 20-25 flowers ; peduncle, 

 pedicel, calyx, corolla, and bracteoles all white ; pedicels 

 (and peduncle) finely and sparingly puberulent, 2h hues 

 long, curved, tribracteolate at the base; bracteoles clasp- 

 ing, imbricate, their margins finely serrulate. Calyx- 

 lobes large, acute, minutely serrulate-fimbriate. ^ Corolla 2 

 lines long, sub-campanulate, inflated, mouth slightly con- 

 tracted; lobes small, revolute, their tips obtuse and minutely 

 denticulate. Filaments white, sub-lanceolate acuminate, 1- 

 nerved, thickly and coarsely muricated, the tips of points 

 obtuse ; anthers dark orange-red, base gibbous slightly emar- 

 ginate and minutely muricatulate ; awns stout, spreadmg 

 their sinus very broad, rising immediately from anther, with a 

 small acute lobe on each side at base of awn. Style and 

 stigma simple. Hypogynous scales broadly deltoid, concrete, 

 then- tips verv obtuse, thickened, brown. 



Hah. On ^eastern slopes of Euahine Mountain - range, 

 County of Waipawa : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. A very graceful species, apparently distinct from all 

 known ones ; its anthers somewhat approach those of G. 

 oppositifolia, Hook. f. 



Genus 8. Dracophyllum, Lab. 



1. D. teniiicaiilis, sp. nov. 



A small nmch-branched shrub. Branch (specimen re- 

 ceived) oin. long, 2 lines diameter at base, naked; bark 

 blackish-gi-ey ; bearing 15 small erect slender branchlets, each 

 lin.-liin. long, *-f line wide, minutely and regularly scarred 



