CoLENso.— 0/< Ncio Phcenocjaius. 609 



Obs. A very distinct, striking, and graceful species, differ- 

 ing largely from all others known to nie, but having some 

 affinity with V. elliptica, V. benthami, V. Icevis, and V. buxi- 

 folia. Its large flowers without tube (which makes them 

 fugacious), 4-fid calyx with sepals large and sharply acute, 

 elegant-shaped and symmetrically-placed leaves with their 

 curious puberulous margins and produced tips, make the plant 

 an attractive and pleasing object. 



Order LXYII. Thymele^. 

 Genus 1. Pimelea, Banks and Solander. 

 1. P. subsimilis, sp. nov. 



A dwarf shrub 10in.-12in. high, erect, stout; branches 

 few, thick, short, scarred, densely clothed with patent white 

 hairs between upper leaves ; bark reddish, covered with 

 minute black tubercles between scars. Leaves quadrifariously 

 disposed, very close and imbricate, narrow oblong-ovate, 2-2|^ 

 lines long, tip obtuse, subsessile, concave, thickish, glabrous, 

 reddish-brown (dried), midrib very stout and prominent 

 below ; petiole broad, thick, wrinkled ; floral leaves 4, un- 

 equal, one being a very little larger and three smaller than 

 those of the stem, but thinner, greenish, with lateral nerves 

 visible. Flowers terminal in sniall corymbose heads, 4-8 

 together ; receptacle hairy ; perianth sub -|in. long, very 

 hairy on the outside, especially at base, with long white 

 hairs extending upwards ; lobes pink-coloured, broadly ovate, 

 tips ciliate. Anthers exserted, shorter than lobes, broadly 

 ovoid, obtuse, cordate. Style included, length of tube, 

 simple. 



Hab. Euahine Mountain-range : Mr. H. Hill ; 1895. 



Obs. A species having close afdnity with P. stylosa, Col. 

 (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xx., p. 205), but of more robust habit, 

 erect and simple, possessing much smaller leaves and flowers, 

 with much longer white hairs, style included, &c. 



2. P. dasyantha, sp. nov. 



Shrub low, bushy, suberect, 12in.-15in. high, much 

 branched; bark brown, striate; branches, leaves beneath, 

 and flowers densely strigosely hairy ; hairs very long, acute, 

 pure white. Leaves numerous, subdecussate, slightly im- 

 bricate, and rather distant, broadly ovate and subacute, 4-5 

 lines long, glabrous and minutely subpapillose above, with 

 thick white haii'y ciliolate margins, subsessile ; petioles small, 

 thickish, reddish, glabrous. Flowers in small terminal heads 

 of 5-9 ; receptacle densely hairy, hidden by long white hairs ; 

 floral leaves similar to stem leaves bitt rather smaller. Pe- 

 rianth small, oblong, 3 lines long, sessile, hairs extending 



