534 Transactions. — Botany. 



Akt. LIV. — On some Additions to the Neto Zealand Flora. 



By T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Curator of the 

 Auckland Museum. 



[Read before the Auckland Institute, 7ih October, 1895.] 



Colobantlms squarrosus, ii. sp. 



Small, densely tufted, much branched, forming rounded 

 cushions 3in.-4in. in diameter and 2in. high, occasionally 

 more laxly branched and open. Leaves lin.-iin. long, rigid 

 or chaffy, spreading, base broad and sheathing, upper part 

 subulate, gradually narrowed to an acute or shortly acicular 

 tip, deeply channelled above, rounded below. Flowers usually 

 terminating the branches, ^in. in diameter, peduncles slightly 

 exceeding the upper leaves. Sepals 5, broadly ovate, acute, 

 margins thin and almost translucent. Stamens 5, much 

 longer than the sepals ; hypogynous disc reduced to a mere 

 line. Ovary globose, styles 5. Mature capsules rather shorter 

 than the calyx. 



Hab. Mount Owen, Nelson, on limestone rocks; alt., 

 4,000ft. 



This differs in a marked degree from C.acicularis, Hook, f., 

 and G. henthamianus , Fenzl. (C suhulatus, Hook, f.), in the 

 shape of the leaves and sepals. The leaves have not the long 

 acicular points of the first species, and the sepals are very dif- 

 ferent in shape from those of either, being broadly ovate and 

 acute. 



Epilobium rostratum, n. sp. 



A small rigid wiry species, 2in.-5in. high, grey with shore 

 fine pubescence. Eoot hard and woody. Stems few or many, 

 erect, arcuate at the base or spreading, simple or branched, 

 rigid, terete, leafy, hoary with a uniform pubescence of short 

 white hairs. Leaves small, rigid, coriaceous, lin.— ^in. long, 

 Jghi.-g-iu. wide, narrow-oblong, obtuse, or more usually ter- 

 minating in a cartilaginous mucro, lower and intermediate 

 opposite, uppermost often alternate, sessile or very shortly 

 petiolate, margins with 2-3 large and coarse teeth, surfaces 

 wrinkled and corrugated when dry, midrib prominent m the 

 lower two-thirds of the leaf, secondary veins not conspicuous. 

 Flowers very small, crowded in the axils of the upper leaves, 

 _i_in.-iin. long, erect; petals hardly longer than the pubescent 

 calyx lobes. Co.psules large, usually about fin. long, crowded 

 at the ends of the branches, sessile or on very short pedicels. 



