56 Transactions. — Botany. 



Hah. On ground, forming large compact turf -like patches, 

 low woods near Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 1886 : 

 W. C. 



6. G. mitteniana, sp. nov. 



Plant gregarious, pale, prostrate ; stem thick, succulent, 

 hairy beneath, with dark-red wiry rootlets in small detached 

 bunches at bases of stipules, simple, sometimes once- 

 branched near top, lin.-lfiii. long, 4 lines wide at top, 

 oblong-ovate. Leaves amplexicaul above on stem, im- 

 bricate, dorsal bases largely overlapping and wavy, distant 

 and smaller below; ventral lobe sub-oblong-ovate (lingulate), 

 the apical half serrate, having 2-3 small laciniations on each 

 side with thick diagonal plaits, tip obtuse, minutely sub- 

 apiculate, the basal half of anterior margin produced, ciliate ; 

 ciliffi long, flexuous, branched ; the posterior margin finely 

 serrulate ; dorsal lobe short, sub-trapeziform, truncate ; ante- 

 rior margin closely and finely serrulate, increasing at tip ; 

 posterior margin straight, distant from that of ventral lobe. 

 Cells large, rather coarse and irregular, sub-orbicular and 

 broadly elliptic. Stipule large, sub-fiabelliform-quadrate, 4- 

 lobed, sinuses deep narrow sub-acute, very much ciliate on all 

 sides ; ciliaB long, flexuous. Numerous stipellffi (phyllodia ?) 

 in the axils, the largest sub-quadrate, bifid, tips truncate ; the 

 others narrow linear, and all largely and finely ciliate. 



Hab. On ground at bases of trees, low wet woods, Norse- 

 wood, County of Waipawa ; 1886 : TV. C. 



Obs. A species somewhat resembling G. balfoztriana, 

 Hook. f. and Tayl., in general appearance, but leaves without 

 lamella), and the whole plant much more ciliate, the ciliae 

 longer, flexuous and cellular ; the basal anterior margin of 

 leaf finely ciliate, and the phyllodia more numerous and hairy- 

 ciliate. 



7. G. moniliformis, sp. nov. 



Plant gregarious, prostrate, obovate-oblong, ■|in.-2in. long, 

 4 lines wide at top, slightly branched, leafy to base, stem 

 stout, dark-coloured, for three-fourths of length beneath 

 covered with dense blackish-purple rootlets. Leaves close, 

 nuich imbricated above ; ventral lobe narrow ovate, obtuse, 

 with two plaits running to margin from angles of tip of dorsal ; 

 the tip and apical half of anterior margin serrate, the basal 

 half ciliate ; the posterior margin entire ; dorsal lobe short, 

 three-fifths of ventral, tip truncate, broad, and toothed ; ante- 

 rior base rounded, produced beyond ventral and largely over- 

 lapping stem, with a few distant minute marginal teeth and 

 2-3 fine plaits, slightly denticulate on lateral line of posterior 

 margin. Cells large, sub-orbicular, sometimes oval, clear, 

 their walls broad and double, with minute cellules. Stipule 



