CoLENso. — On new Phanogamic Plants. 99 



quently smaller), thickish, margins entire; mid-rib promment 

 on under surface, veins obscure, petiolate ; petioles stoutisb, 

 half length of leaf, channelled above. Bracts (ochrece) entire, 

 bladdery, pale red-brown, very numerous. Perianth solitary, 

 sessile or sub-sessile, rugulose, a little shorter than fruit, 

 closely adpressed, fleshy (in some specimens), 5-lobed, lobes 

 cut half-way to base, oblong, sub-acute ; nut 1^ lines long, 

 rhomboidal, triquetrous, angles obtuse, sides concave, tip 

 acute, black, smooth not shining. 



Hab. On the sides and near the summit of Mount Tonga- 

 riro, county of East Taupo, almost entirely hidden among low 

 small herbs and mosses ; 1887 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. A very minute, peculiar, and distinct species, of which, 

 unfortunately, I have only a few specimens, found by me con- 

 cealed in little turfy lumps of dark boggy earth, brought from 

 the mountain by Mr. Hill."^' The leaves and fruit had mostly 

 fallen off from their branches through damp and close packing, 

 but the bracts remained, and all were perfect, though I only 

 obtained about half a dozen nuts and perianths, and have not 

 seen any floral organs. 



2. M. paucifolia, sp. nov. 



A low prostrate rambling shrub, extending 5ft. -6ft. 

 Branches stout, bark glabrous, longitudinally wrinkled and 

 channelled, dark red-brown. Leaves few, scattered, light- 

 green, broadly elliptic and sub-rotund, 3-6 lines long, obtuse, 

 sometimes retuse, glabrous, rarely contracted at middle, sub- 

 membranaceous, veins anastomosing obscure (visible when 

 dried) ; petioles half as long as leaves, slender, channelled 

 above, finely and closely tuberculate ; stipules ovate, acute. 

 Flowers in terminal racemes at tips of short lateral branch- 

 lets ; racemes simple, short, about ^in. long, finely pilose, each 

 bearing 5-7 (rarely 9) flowers, alternate and rather distant ; 

 bracts (ochrecB) rather large, open, glabrous, pale reddish- 

 brown, obliquely truncate, acuminate with one long stout sub- 

 aristate nerve ; margins entire or finely and shortly ciliate 

 [sub Icnte), each bearing a single flower; pedicels longer than 

 bracts. Perianth (and pedicel) white, lobes cut half-way to 

 base, oblong, obtuse, conniving ; stamens longer than lobes ; 

 anthers sub-orbicular, didymous, sub-versatile, white. Stig- 

 mas small, red, glabrous, acute. Ovary (immature) pink, 

 slightly tuberculate. 



Hab. On mounds of indurated pumice, &c., at Whanga- 

 wehi, north side of Table Cape; December, 1887: Mr. A. 

 Hamilton. 



* See "Observation" under " Drosera minvtula" (s^/pra), p. 82, for a 

 more particular description of these little turfy specimens. 

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