92 Transactions. — Botany. 



stems of many varieties of Brassica oleracea, greatly attracted, 

 my notice." 



This locality was on the immediate sea-coast between 

 Pakarae and Poverty Bay, and near to Whangawehi, Table 

 Cape ; and I have scarcely any doubt of the said specimen 

 (No. 46} being identical with the plant here described. The 

 season, too, accounts for my specimens (and still more so for 

 those of Banks and Solander, who were a month earlier on 

 the coast) being imperfect — i.e., not fully developed.] 



Order XLIL— EEICEiE. 

 Genus 2. Pernettya, Gaud. 



1. P. macrostigma, sp. nov. 



A small prostrate shrubby plant. Stems woody, much, 

 branched ; branchlets short, lin.-2in. long, irregular, glabrous, 

 with a few" scattered long weak flexuous hairs, the very young 

 branchlets and leaves finely pilose. Leaves scattered, linear- 

 lanceolate, 3 lines long, ^ line wide, green, glabrous, patent; 

 tips obtuse, coloured ; margins distantly and regularly serru- 

 late, usu.ally 3-4 teeth ; teeth white, sub-pellucid, each with a 

 dark hair-like point ; petioles short. Flowers small, single, 

 axillary, peduncled ; peduncle short, curved, glabrous, with 

 3-4 broadly ovate bracts at base. Calyx-lobes cut nearly to 

 base, ovate, sub-acute, purple and green, finely pilose within ; 

 margins ciliate. Corolla xV^- ^o'^g' globose - campanulate, 

 white, veined ; lobes short, blunt, tips much recurved. Sta- 

 mens ovate-acuminate, 1-veined, muricated throughout ; tips 

 plain, obtuse, shghtly recurved. Style longer than corolla,, 

 erect, stoutish, glabrous ; stigma large, jagged, spreading ; 

 ovary prominently 5-lobed, pilose. Fruit globular, 2 lines 

 diameter, pink. 



Ilab. Open grounds on dry hills in the interior, Glenross 

 Station, County of Hawke's Bay ; December, 1887 : Mr. D. P. 

 Balfour. 



Obs. A species near to P. tasmanica, Hook, f., which it 

 also resembles in general appearance. Unfortunately I have 

 had but two small specimens, containing only a few flowers, 

 to examine. One very peculiar character it possesses is that 

 of the calyx, pilose within. 



Genus 8. Dracophyllum, Lab. 



1. D. recurvatitm, sp. nov. 



An erect and tall shrub, or small slender tree, " 25ft. -30ft. 

 high," branched at top; trunk below bare, 3in.-4in. diameter; 

 bark smooth, greyish. Branches sub-erect and compound ; 

 branchlets bare, cylindrical, 4 lines diameter; bark smooth, 

 pale red-brown, pretty regularly annulated v.'ith rings of fallen 



