25b Transactions, — Botany. 



II ah. In shaded forests, near Norsewood, County of Wai- 

 pawa; 1883-85 : W.C. 



Obs. A species having pretty close affinity with S. parviflora, 

 Banks and Sol., which it resembles in habit, but differing in 

 several particulars. 



Order XVII. STACKHOUSIEiE. 

 Genus 1. Stackhousia, Smith. 

 1. S. uniflora, sp. nov. 



Plant small, glabrous; stems creeping underground; branch- 

 lets numerous, slender, sub-angular, erect, loosely branched, 

 light-green, with reddish striate lines, 1-2 inches high ; leaves 

 small, few. distant, 6-10 on a main branch, linear-obovate and 

 broadly-lanceolate, 1^—2^ lines long, acute and sub-apiculate, 

 thickish, nerveless, green with reddish margins, sub-petiolate with 

 minute stipellae. Flowers terminal, solitary, conspicuous, rather 

 large for the plant, peduncled with one small fohaceous bract at 

 base ; calyx lobes adpressed, deltoid, serrulate and very acute ; 

 corolla 2-2-| lines long, yellowish-browu, speckled and striped 

 with red (as also the calyx), tube united nearly to base, lobes 

 more dusky and dark spotted, linear-lanceolate, acute, 1 line 

 long, spreading, sub-revolute ; anthers glabrous, oblong, sub- 

 acute, cordate, orange ; stigma trifid ; cocci (immature) 3. 



Hub. On open spots, banks of the River Manawatu, County 

 of Waipawa ; November, 1884 : Mr. Henry Hill. 



Obs. A species allied to S. minima, Hook, fil., our only 

 known New Zealand species, but differing from it in its flowers 

 being always solitary, its adpressed calyx with serrulate lobes, and 

 its glabrous anthers. It is also closely allied to S. pulvinaris, 

 Muell., (judging from Bentham's description of that species in 

 his " Flora Australiensis,") an Australian and Tasmaniau plant 

 of nearly the same size and habit ; which species, however, has 

 crowded leaves almost concealing the flowers, obtuse lobes to 

 the corolla, and small obtuse bracts. 



Order XVIII. RHAMNE^. 

 Genus 1. Pomaderris, Labill. 

 1. Pamcena, sp. nov. 



Shrub 2-3 feet high, bushy, diffused, much branched, very 

 leafy ; stems and branches dark-red-brown ; branchlets thickly 

 hirsute-pubescent with patent grey hairs. Leaves numerous, 

 close set, thickish, patent, sub-decuvved, 2-3 lines long, linear, 

 obtuse, wholly revolute laterally to midrib ; margins entire, 

 meeting, of a pleasing grass-green colour above, and very sca- 

 brid (sub-muricate) with white scattered hairs ; petioles pube- 

 scent, nearly 1 line long, and very striking from their white 



