CoLENSo. — On New Phcenogamic Plants. 485 



4. P. bicolor, sp. nov. 



A small shrub, main branches 2in.-3in. long, slender, erect ; 

 branches leafy, hairy, bark dark-red ; branchlets lin.-2in. long, 

 very slender. Leaves numerous, lanceolate, 2-2^ lines long, 

 concave, thickish, pale-green, glabrous, margined with a broad 

 dark-purple line, extending on both surfaces, which is also 

 constant, sub - sessile, decurrent, sub - imbricate on main 

 branches, distant 2 lines apart in opposite pairs on young 

 branchlets ; petioles yellowish-brown ; floral leaves similar 

 but slightly larger. Flowers very small, sub-terminal, axil- 

 lary, single or forming an opposite pair. Perianth 2 lines 

 long, with a thick tuft of greyish-white hairs at base, urceo- 

 late, membranous, veined, reddish (when dry), very hairy; 

 hairs long, straight, coarse, white, extending beyond tips of 

 lobes ; lobes very small, shorter than tube, broadly elliptic, 

 obtuse ; style exserted ; stigma large, capitate, fimbriate. 

 Nut enclosed, oblong, turgid, 1 line long. 



Hab. Open spots, Taupo, County of East Taupo ; 1889 : 

 Mr. H. mil. 



Obs. A species allied to P. urvilleana, A. Eich., and to 

 P. prostrata, Vahl ; also to P. rugulosa, Col. ("Trans. N.Z, 

 Inst.," vol. xxi., p. 102). 



5. P. dichotoma, sp. nov. 



Shrub 2ft. -4ft. high, much branched ; branches long, erect, 

 very slender, regularly ringed with scars from old leaves ; 

 bark light reddish-brown, glabrous ; branchlets in pairs, leafy 

 at top, the young branchlets very hairy ; hairs long, white, 

 strigose, appressed. Leaves decussate, distant, sessile, linear, 

 ^in. long, ] line wide, recurved falcate, green somewhat ob- 

 scure ; tips and bases red ; base a thickened knob ; glabrous 

 above, strigosely hairy below (as also floral leaves) ; hairs 

 white, springing from coloured sub-muricated dots, and ex- 

 tending beyond tips in small pencils ; floral leaves (usually 4) 

 much larger and thinner, ovate-lanceolate, |in. long, 3 lines 

 wide, sub-sessile, light-green, veined. Flowers terminal (at 

 first, afterward axillary between branchlets), in small heads 

 usually 8-9, sessile ; perianth very hairy on the outside, 3 lines 

 long, tube narrow, reddish and swelling below ; lobes 1 line 

 long, sub-oblong-ovate, very obtuse, veined, slightly spreading, 

 white, much ciliate ; throat red ; anthers included ; stigma 

 .slightly exserted, globular, minutely and densely pencilled. 



Hab. Banks of streamlets, borders of open plains, Taho- 

 raiti. County of Waipawa ; 1889 : W. C. 



Obs. An extremely neat-growing open shrub, of graceful 

 appearance when in flower (in October). A peculiar character 

 is that of its young branchlets, which spring in opposite pairs 

 from within the floral leaves, and grow very rapidly; so that, 



