CoLENSO. — On Nciu Phceiiotjauiic FlaiUa. 479 



tion crenate, tips very obtuse crenulate with 2-3 notches, the 

 lower margins towards petiole entire and slightly recurved, 

 darkish-green and dull above, pale and reticulated below, the 

 ■cuticle rather loose and wrinkled ; petioles slender, slightly 

 hairy and ciliate, 1 line long. Flowers sub-terminal, 3-4 

 together, axillary among leaves at tips of branchlets, 2 lines 

 diameter, dark-brown ; peduncles 1 line long, slender, droop- 

 ing ; bracteas at base, small, brown, tips ciliate. Calyx-lobes 

 4, free, spreading, oblong, acute, 1-nerved, slightly pubescent, 

 ciliolate at tij)s and margins. Corolla-lobes 5, cuneate, tips 

 broad, irregularly notched or retuse, glabrous, sub 1 line long, 

 twice the length of calyx, reticulately veined ; veins dark, 

 conspicuous, not reaching to margins. Anthers 4, large, 

 ovate, pale, sub-cordate, tips acute. Stigma sessile, capitate, 

 depressed, circular, irregularly 4-lobed, sunk in centre. Fruit 

 not seen. 



Hab. Sides of Mount Tongariro, County of East Taupo ; 

 1889 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. This species varies much from the other known in- 

 digenous ones, especially in the form of its leaves and of its 

 corolla ; also, in it being the only known one whose leaves are 

 without pellucid dots and entire margins ; its corolla also is 

 much larger, the lobes differently shaped and copiously veined. 

 I have received two good specimens, evidently gathered from 

 diiferent shrubs (and probably at different elevations) : in the 

 one the leaves are small, scarcely 3 lines long, and the branches 

 clothed with filamentous lichens (Usnea with apothecia) ; 

 while the leaves of the other specimen are from 4 to 5 lines 

 long : in all other respects, however, these two specimens are 

 alike. 



2. M. nco-zcalandensis, sp. nov. 



Shrub erect semi-fastigiate, 6ft. high, slender, graceful, 

 much branched ; bark dark reddish-brown, smooth, striately 

 wrinkled when dry ; branches and branchlets long, sub-erect, 

 slender, simple. Leaves few, distant, alternate, solitary, 

 obovate, lin.-ljin. long, 5-6 lines broad, flat, membranous, 

 glabrous, darkish-green above, pale below, margins entire with 

 numerous intra-marginal pellucid red dots very close together ; 

 tip broadly rounded, sometimes (but rarely) slightly retuse ; 

 tapering to petiole ; petiole slender, 1 line long ; midrib pro- 

 minent below ; much veined, veins largely reticulate (sub 

 Icnte). It also has a few solitary and scattered intervenmg 

 very small leaves of 2-3 lines in length. Stipules linear, 

 thickish, red ; tips acute ; slightly ciliolate at base. 



Ilab. Edge of a wood on open plain south of Dannevirke, 

 County of Waipawa ; 1889 : W. C. 



Obs. This is a pretty species, with a very striking appear- 



