594 Tra nsactions. — Bo ta ny . 



angles very long, stout, and branched (three leaves together 

 erect at base), scattered alternately throughout stem, 6-8 lines 

 apart, the lower solitary, afterwards 2 together, then 3-4 

 subfaseicled ; petioles filiform, 7-8 lines long. Eaceme at top 

 l^in.-2in. long; with a few (5-7) distant flowers, having a 

 single small linear toothed acuminate adpressed bract be- 

 tween them; pedicels finely filiform, 2-3 lines long. Sepals 

 broadly oblong, 2 lines long, membranaceous, veined, glabrous, 

 roughish, minutely tuberculate ; tips much jagged. Corolla 

 very membranous, twice length of sepals ; petals broadly 

 cuneate, pink, veined ; styles 3, stout, spreading, much 

 branched at top ; branches flattish, with numerous minute 

 terminal and marginal globular dots. Anthers very small, 

 suborbicular, white ; stamens dark-coloured. Ovary elliptic- 

 globose, dark-green. Seeds linear, acuminate, somewhat fal- 

 cate, brownish. 



Hab. Euahine Mountain-range, east side : Mr. H. Hill ; 

 1895. 



Oh&. A species very near to D. auricidata, Backhouse, but 

 differing in its branched stem (in number and position of 

 stem-leaves), in bracteolate raceme, in broad laciniate sepals, 

 and in its very peculiar styles, these last being a most interest- 

 ing and curious object under the microscope. 



Order XXXVIII. Eubiace^. 

 Genus 1. Coprosma, Forst. 

 1. G. margarita, sp. nov. 



A small low shrub; bark dark-coloured, purplish; branches 

 very slender, erect, and drooping when in fruit (specimens 

 6in.-8in. long) ; branchlets numerous, rather close, opposite, 

 short, filiform, somewhat angular, thickly clothed with short 

 greyish hairs, strigosely pubescent. Leaves few, more nume- 

 rous at tips of branchlets, linear, 9 lines long, ^^vcl. wide, 

 glabrous, green, acute and subacute, slightly falcate, recurved, 

 tips callous, tapering at base ; petioles very short, purple. 

 Stipules small, deltoid - acuminate, acute, pilose, ciliolate. 

 Flowers : male not seen ; female solitary, terminal on very- 

 short branchlets and often opposite, sometimes having a pair 

 of linear leaf-like bracteoles at base, purple-margined, their 

 tips minutely ciliolate, as also are the teeth of the calyx, 

 which are very small ; peduncles slender, wiry, 1 line long. 

 Corolla small, infundibuliform, ^in. long, pale-yellow irregu- 

 larly spotted with purple, 4-lobed ; lobes subovate and sub- 

 acute, spreading, margins purple ; styles twice as long as 

 tube, stout, very pubescent, obtuse, spreading. Fruits nume- 

 rous, globular, -^x^^- diameter, white, shining, semitransparent, 

 crowned with the minute calycine lobes. Seeds 2, suborbicu- 

 lar, plano-convex, ^V^^- diameter, whitish. 



