602 Transactions. — Botany. 



by aborfciou " (Fl. Austral., vol. iv.,p. 163). Yet Hooker says 

 of it, "Drupe of 5 or more small l-seeded nuts" (Handbook 

 N.Z. Fl.. p. 178). In other respects it agrees with the genus, 

 and it may, with the next plant hereunder described, serve to 

 unite those two nearly-allied genera. 



Genus='- Trochocarpa, Br. 



1. T. novce-zealandice, sp. nov. 



A low bushy shrub, liin.-2in. high, much branched, 

 glabrous; branches short; stems woody, slender, blackish. 

 Leaves numerous, close, imbricate and spreading, lanceolate, 

 li- lines long, -i- line wide, tip subacute-obtuse, 3-5-nerved 

 below, rather thickish, margins entire ; dark-purplish-green ; 

 petioles rather stout, ^ line long, red; margins of young leaves 

 toward apex minutely ciliolate {sub lens). Flowers few, soli- 

 tary, terminal and axillary on tips of branchlets, sessile. 

 Sepals 5, ovate-acuminate, tips obtuse, margins finely cilio- 

 late ; 2 broad bracteoles below calyx, and smaller roundish 

 ones outside. Corolla subcylindrical, 2 lines long, valvate in 

 bud, tip acute, white with pink tips on outside ; tube slightly 

 hairy half-way down ; lobes 5, equal, acute, much bearded 

 within, and 2 -nerved from base. Anthers linear - oblong, 

 l)rown, adnate, close to angle-bases of lobes ; style stout, 

 erect ; stigma capitate, papillose. Fruit red, globular, shin- 

 ing, 2 lines diameter, pulpy, style persistent. Seeds 9, yellow, 

 oblong, plano-convex. 



Hal). Sunnnits Ruahine Mountain-range, east side : Mr. 

 A. 01 sen ; January, 1895. 



Obs. It is not without some doubt that I place this neat 

 little plant under this endemic Australian genus. It has much 

 of the common appearance {prima facie) of a Pentachondra, 

 but its fruit is strikingly different, also its pyrenes, and its 

 corolla-lobes are not so densely bearded. 



Genus 8. Dracophyllum, Lab. 

 1. D. ^j;i;i(/t'7is, sp. nov. 



A (small?) shrub (specimens Gin. long); branches straight, 

 erect, very leafy, simple ; bark dark-purple with thin silvery 

 scurf epidermis ; branchlets 3-4 near top, subopposite and 

 subfascicled, very slender, lin.-2in. long, ij^oin. wide, erect, 

 bearing 4-5 leaves at tips; bark red, glabrous, shining. Leaves 

 erect, subrigid, filiform, 2^in.-2-|in. long, ^ line wide, thickish, 

 concave above, semi-terete below, margins entire, tips pun- 

 gent ; colour pale - yellowish -green, fugacious in drying; 

 sheaths large, 5 lines long, 2 lines wide, red, margins thin, 



* An Australian genus, closely allied to the preceding, but not 

 hitherto detected in New Zealand. 



