CoLENSO. — On New Phanogams. 591 



Dracophyllum pearsoni, Kirk. 

 Mitrasacme hookeri, Buchanan. 

 Mitrasacme cheesemanii, Buchanan. 

 Logania armstrongii, Buchanan. 

 Gentiana hookeri, Armstrong. 

 Verouica glauco-coerulea, Arvistrong. 

 Veronica monticola, Armstrong. 

 Veronica tetrasticha, Hook. f. 

 Veronica carnea, Armstrong. 

 Veronica rnuelleri, Armstrong. 

 Pygmaea thomsoni, Buchanan. 

 Ourisia montana, Buchanan. 

 Plantago hamiltoni, Kirk. 

 Fagus blairii, Kirk. 

 Scirpus muscosus, Kirk. 

 Danthonia flaccida, Kirk. 

 Poa walkeri, Kirk. 



Art. LVIII. — Phanogams : A Description of a few more 

 Neiclij-discovercd Indigenous Plants ; being a Further Con- 

 tribution towccrds the making known the Botany of New 

 Zealand. 



By W. CoLENso, RE.S., F.L.S. (Lond.), &c. 



l_Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 21st October, 



1895.] 



Class I. DICOTYLEDONS. 

 Order I. KANUNCULACEiE. 

 Genus 3.* Ranunculus, Linn. 

 1. B. rufus, sp. nov. 



Plant perennial, large, stout, everywhere hairy ; hairs 

 long, shaggy, flattish, acute, dull-red. Leaves broadly orbicu- 

 lar, 3^in. long, 5iu. wide, reddish-green, chartaceous ; margins 

 crenate, teeth broad rounded, base truncate and cordate, hairs 

 strigosely situated ; strongly primary-veined from petiole to 

 margins, with secondary veins forming large areolse of irregu- 

 lar shapes and sizes, usually 5-6 sided, with free branched 

 veinlets within them (compound anastomosing) ; hairs form- 

 ing a thickened elevated margin to leaves ; petioles stout, 



* Tlie numbers of the orders and genera given here are those of them 

 in the " Handbook of the New Zeahxnd Flora." 



