600 Transuctions. — Botanij. 



Hah. East sides of Raahine Mountain - range, about 

 3,000ft.-4, 000ft. altitude, on margins of watercourses, and 

 also on dry stony spots: Mr. A. Olsea ; 1894-95. 



Obs. This fine lierb has some affinity with S. q las tif alius, 

 Hook. fil. 



Order XLII. Eeice.e. 



Genus 1. Gaultheria, Liini. 

 1. G. (jlaiuhdosa, sp. nov. 



Shrub glabrous (specimens oin. long, terminating in 3-6 

 branchlets, each 2in. long, and nearly alike) ; bark pale, muri- 

 cated with small red and black callous points, the young 

 branchlets having a single long black fiat hair-like scale, 

 acuminate and strigose, appressed upwards from each dot. 

 Leaves numerous, alternate, close, imbricate, fiat, erect, 

 lanceolate-oblong, 8 lines long, 2 lines broad, subapiculate, 

 closely serrate ; teeth apiculato with black callous points ; 

 tapering at base ; petiolate ; reddish-green ; closely and regu- 

 larly reticulated on both sides, minutely rugulose above with 

 a kind of varnished appearance ; petioles sub 1 line long, 

 stout, red. Flowers very numerous, terminal in corymbose 

 panicles, very close-set, small, reddish (dried). Calycine 

 lobes broadly ovate, spreading, concave, margins glandular 

 ciholate ; peduncles slightly pilose, much bracteate ; pedicels 

 glabrous, 1 line long, with 3 sessile bracts at base, clasping, 

 broadly deltoid-ovate, apiculate, margms glandular-ciliolate 

 or serrate {sub lens). Corolla broadly campanulate, veined ; 

 tube j\jin. long ; lobes bi'oadly deltoid, very obtuse, much 

 recurved, margin of tips irregularly and minutely jagged. 

 Stamens short, as long as anthers, warted, broadest at 

 extreme base ; anthers small, simply horned, minutely muri- 

 catulate, base rounded, dark-red. Style as long as tube, 

 slightly exserted ; stigma simple. Hypogenous scales longer 

 than ovary, their tips rounded. 



Hah. Ruahine Mountain-range, east side : Mr. H. Hill, 

 1894 ; Mr. E. W. Amlnnvs, 1895. 



Obs. A truly handsome and neat species, differing con- 

 siderably from all known ones, yet having close affinity with 

 G. subcoryvibosa, Col. (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxii., p. 476). 



Genus 3. Cyathodes^ Br. 



1. C. ariiculata, sp. nov. 



A (small?) glabrous shrub; branch (specimen) 4iu. long, 

 slender, woody, bearing several very short branchlets lin. long, 

 bark greyish. Leaves suberect, close, decussate, imbricate, 

 linear acuminate a little broader at base, 3| lines long sub 

 ^ line wide tapering into a long callous acute tip, thickish, 



