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alternate or fascicled, very coriaceous, linear, spathulate, or 

 linear-obovate, ^in.-l^in. long, entire or sinuate, toothed or 

 lobed, rounded or retuse, petioles very short. Flowers small, 

 axillary, solitary or in small fascicles ; peduncles shorter than 

 the flowers, curved, with two ovate bracts below tlie middle. 

 Sepals much shorter than the petals, minutely erose ; petals 

 linear oblong, recurved at the apex. x\nthers forming a tube 

 round the ovary, connective fimbriate with a dorsal scale. 

 Ovary 1-celled, placentas 2. Berry purple or white, 2-seeded. 

 Seeds- 2, convex on the outer face. Handbook, 18. Sccevola (?) 

 novcs-zealandicB, A. Cunn., Precurs., n. 429. 



North Island. — Maritime rocks opposite the Cavallos 

 Islands : B. Cunningham. Northern shore of Cook Strait, 

 from Cape Terawhiti to Cape Palliser, kc. ; Port Nicholson : 

 T. Kirk. 



South Island. — Nelson : Coast between the Boulder Bank 

 and Croixelles Harbour : T. Kirk. Marlborough : Pelorus 

 Sound, &c. : J . Butland ! Canterbury, Coast of Banks Pen- 

 insula : /. B. Armstrong ! Otago : D. Fetric. 



Stewart Island. — T. Kirk. October, November. 



Erect shoots with broader leaves are sometimes developed 

 in sheltered situations. 



2. H. dentata, R. Br., var. angustifolia, Benth. Fl. Austr., 



i., 104. 



An excessively branched shrub, 2ft. -8ft. high ; branchlets 

 terete, imbricate, about as thick as whipcord, often naked 

 and spinescent, closely dotted with minute lenticels. Leaves 

 on very short petioles, often fascicled, narrow linear-oblong, 

 cuneate at the base, rather membranous or subcoriaceous, 

 entire or sinuate or shortly lobed, rounded at the apex, -^in.- 

 ■|in. long. Flowers perfect or dioecious, almost sessile, soli- 

 tary or geminate. Male flower not seen. Female almost 

 sessile, petals narrow, anthers abortive, style short, stigmas 

 2, spreading. Berry 2-seeded, seeds oblong, flat on the inner 

 face, convex on the outer, with a small discoid strophiole. 

 Hook., Comp. to Bot. Mag., i., 274; Hook, f., Fl. Tasm, i., 

 27 ; H. anqustifolia, E. Br., in DC. Prodr., i., 315 ; H. hanksii, 

 F. Muell., PI. Vict., i., 69. 



North Island. — Wellington : Turangarere ; A. Hamilton ! 

 Upper Eangitikei ; D. Petrie ! 



South Island. — Nelson : Wairoa North : W. II. Bryant 

 ?ind T. Kirk. Canterbury: Alps: J.B.Armstrong! Otago: 

 Paradise, Mount Earnslaw, T. Kirk ; Kelso, D. Petrie. 



Easily distinguished by the lenticellate bark, slender twigs 

 which are flexuous when grown in sheltered conditions, and 

 the dioecious flowers. The Tasmanian plant is said to produce 

 hermaphrodite flowers. At present I have only had the op- 



