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while its heads of flowers are terminal on their first expanding, 

 they soon become axillary between two longbranchlets, which, 

 on the flowers withering and falling off, become equally forked 

 with a broad obtuse basal angle. 



6. P. licterophylla, sp. nov. 



Shrub small, erect ; branches (specimens) 3in.-4in. long, 

 slender, 1 line diameter, much branched at top ; bark dark- 

 coloured, slightly pubescent; branchlets erect, lin.-2in. long, 

 very slender, scarcely ^ line in diameter ; young branch- 

 lets red, glabrous, witlr a few scattered short appressed hairs. 

 Leaves glabrous, slightly concave, decussate, petiolate, of 2 

 sizes and forms — (1) 2 lines long, broadly lanceolate, distant 

 1 line apart, free and spreading on flowering branches ; and 

 (2) 1 line long, narrow lanceolate, very close, crowded and 

 imbricated on the smaller (and barren) branchlets ; all nar- 

 rowly margined red ; petioles red, glabrous. Floral leaves 

 similar to No. 1. Flowers terminal and sub-terminal, 2-4 

 together, small, their tips only appearing among the leaves. 

 Perianth red, veined, very hairy ; hairs white ; tube Ih lines 

 long; lobes (sometimes only 3) i line long, rounded. An- 

 thers enclosed. Style much exserted ; stigma large, capitate. 

 Nut enclosed, obovate, large (for plant) 1^ lines long, dark- 

 green. 



Hah. Drv open spots, high up on Mount Euapehu, County 

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



Obs. A species pretty closely allied to P. hicolor, Col. 

 (sn2)ra), and difficult in words clearly to describe their differ- 

 ences (which, indeed, I have had some labour in doing) ; yet, 

 when the specimens are compared and examined together, 

 their variance is apparent at once. I would, however, that I 

 had received more and better specimens of both plants, and 

 also of all specimens of Fimclea brought from the mountainous 

 interior. 



7. P. polycephala, sp. nov. 



Plant (apparently) a very small low densely-compacted 

 shrub. Branches (specin^ens) small, stems thickish lin.-2in. 

 high, the lower portion naked ; bark dark-coloured ; with 

 many very small branchlets at top, |^in.-fin. long, closely and 

 regularly tubercled in ridges from old fallen leaves ; scars- 

 glabrous ; stems hairy between tliem ; hairs coarse, of unequal 

 lengths, dirty-white. Leaves thickish, densely imbricated, 

 small, sub-rhoinbic-orbicular, 1-1^ lines diameter, base trun- 

 cate, sessile, glabrous, yellowish-green ; the lower ones 

 keeled ; those near the tops more orbicular, a little larger, 

 and obsoletely veined. Involucral leaves in 3 rows, 3 in a 

 row alternating, larger, sub-orbicular, tapering slightly to- 



