COLENSO. — On New PJuenogams. 601 



margins recurved entire ; pale-dull-green above and somewhat 

 glossy ; paler below and -i-nerved, nerves white ; petiole short, 

 stout, broad, flattish, articulated to a little circular knob in 

 the branchlet. Flowers terminal on the branehlets, 5-7 

 together forming small heads, pale-reddish or fawn colour ; 

 peduncles short, bearing small suborbicular bracts : calycine 

 lobes or bracteoles larger, broadly ovate obtuse, pinkish, mar- 

 gins tliin, minutely ciliolate at tips; corolla tubular sub 

 8 lines long veined ; lobes 5, small ovate acute, glabrous not 

 bearded ; tube slightly hairy within ; anthers adnate opposite 

 angles of lobes, slightly exserted, linear, emarginate both ends, 

 dark-brown ; style erect, nearly as long as tube, slightly hairy 

 below ; stigma simple ; ovary densely hairy ; hairs appressed, 

 pure white. Hypogenous scales, sm.all, orbicular. 



Ilab. Hills in the interior, west of Napier ; 1895. 



Ohs. I. Of this plant I received only a solitary specimen 

 (among those of other plants), apparently casually gathered 

 in passing as of no great consequence ; all the little branehlets 

 on it were very similar and perfect. 



II. I place it here under Cyathodes (not having seen its 

 fruit) mainly owing to the lobes of the corolla being glabrous 

 and the leaves so very pungent. A cuiious feature is the 

 knobbed articulations of its branehlets for its leaves. 



Genus 5. Pentachondra, Br. 

 1. P. rubra, sp. nov. 



A low shrub 3in.-lin. high, ascending, erect, nuich 

 branched; branehlets short, lin.-2in. long, bracteate ; bracts 

 numerous, imbricate, sessile, red-brown, ovate, obtuse, striate, 

 small at base of branehlets increasing in size upwards, 1 line 

 long at top. Leaves close-set, erect, narrow ovate (the upper- 

 most linear-ovate), |-in. long, -^^m. broad, obtuse, tips callous, 

 glabrous, concave, margins finely ciliolate, 3-5 nerved below, 

 pale-dull-green; petiolate, petioles -J- line long, red, striate, 

 stout, flattish. Flowers few, solitary, terminal, red ; tube 

 cylindrical, 3 lines long, glabrous and shining on outside, 

 slightly hairy within ; lobes 5, su'd 1 line long, narrow linear- 

 ovate subacute, recurved, spreading, densely bearded, hairs 

 red ; bracteoles broadly ovate, obtuse, much ciliate. Anthers 

 linear, subclavate, widest at top, subacute at base; style erect, 

 stigma capitate. Disk-scales, tips truncate. Fruit obovate, 

 ^in. long, red, style persistent. Nuts 8, subreniform, gibbous, 

 )-ed, muricatulate-rugose. 



Hah. Euahine Mountain - range : Mr. E. W. Andrews ; 

 1895. 



Obs. This plant, having 8 pyrenes in its fruit, does not 

 agree with its generic name, nor with Bentham's statement 

 respecting the genus — viz., " with 5 distinct pyrenes, ov fewer 



