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petiole, very membranous, reddish, much-veined, veins forked 

 and coloured a deeper red, largely hairy on the whole of the 

 under-surface ; hairs white. Flowers not seen(? too early 

 in the season) ; but the floral leaves are clustered in several 

 small heads (the size of a large pea) at the tips of branchlets, 

 each head on a short stout stem 2-3 lines long, comprising 

 5-8 smaller heads on short pedicels, and each of these smaller 

 heads contains the larger and hairy involucral leaves, more or 

 less crumpled up : the whole most closely packed. 



Hah. Near the summit of Mount Ruapehu, in dry stony 

 ground. County of East Taupo ; 1889 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. Not having received any flowering specimens of this 

 peculiar and very distinct species, I should not have cared to 

 describe it were it not for its striking abnormal floral leaves, 

 which, being so widely different from its own proper leaves in 

 appearance, size, texture, venation, and colour, present the 

 2)rimd facie aspect of a corolla ; and this is still further in- 

 creased through these leaves being so greatly wrinkled and 

 congested, and also very hairy on their outside. Moreover, 

 this peculiar character in the floral leaves is one that hitherto 

 has scarcely been found to pertain to the New Zealand species 

 of Pimelea, although it is a common feature to several of the 

 numerous Australian species of this genus. Bentham, in 

 his " Flora Australiensis," describes 67 species, besides several 

 strongly-marked varieties — species with other botanists. 



Genus 2. Drapetes, Lamarck. 

 1. D. macrantha, sp. nov. 



Plant small, prostrate, scarcely semi-shrubby ; branches 

 8in.-4in. long, slender, brown, scarred; branchlets sub-secund, 

 erect, regular, lin. high, 1 line wide, simple, green, leafy 

 throughout. Leaves closely appressed imbricate, linear- 

 linguiform, obtuse, 1 hue long, sessile, glabrous, striate, 

 gradually increasing in length upwards on branchlets, the 

 uppermost leaves larger, more acute, their apical margins 

 sparingly ciliate, tips bearded. Flowers terminal at tips of 

 branchlets, 3-4 together, free above leaves, white, conspicuous. 

 Perianth sub-narrow campanulate, 2 lines long, lamina nearly 

 2 lines wdde, sessile, with a ring of hairs around base but 

 separate ; tube strongly 8-nerved, glabrous, shining ; lobes sub- 

 elliptic, two-fifths length of perianth, 1-nerved, puberulous at 

 the centre on the outside, their tips very slightly ciliate, each 

 with two small sub-rotund yellowish scales at base. Fila- 

 ments exserted, long, half the length of lobes ; anthers sub- 

 orbicular, yellow. 



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

 County of Waipawa : Mr. H. Hill. 



