Petrie. — New Species of Native Plants. 295 



in Bibl. Banks," and the other Dr. Lindley's description already 

 mentioned ; as at that time of Cunningham's writing his 

 valuable paper in England, he had not seen the plant growing 

 in New Zealand, — although he did afterwards in my garden and 

 elsewhere. Sir D. Hooker, in his " Flora Novaa Zelandiae," in 

 describing Clianthus puniceus gives the following: (1. of the 

 genus), " Ye.villum ovatum, incumbens v. reflexum, carinam 

 oblongam cymbiformem aequans : ahe lanceolatas, basi exciso 

 auriculatae, carina breviores :" and (2. of this species), "Standard 

 ovate, slightly recurved, as long as the keel. Wiivjs lanceolate, 

 sub-falcate, sharp, twice as long as the standard, l£-2 inches 

 long." Here, however, while his description of the shape of the 

 wings is quite correct, and in agreement with both Don and 

 Lindley, above, viz., " Wings lanceolate, sharp ;" there is a manifest 

 error with regard to their size — " twice as long as the standard." 

 This latter is corrected in his " Handbook," published several 

 years after (1864), and altered to " half as long as the stan- 

 dard ;" while the former description of the shape of the tips of 

 the wings is also altered from " sharp " to " acute or obtuse ; " 

 evidently, as I think, to embrace the two states or forms (whether 

 species or varieties) to which I had early called his attention. 

 Napier, December 10th, 1885. 



P.S. — Living flowers of both plants, with mounted dissec- 

 tions showing the diverse forms of their parts, as described in 

 this paper, were exhibited at the ordinary meeting of the 

 Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute in October, 1885. — W.C. 



Art. XLVII. — Description of New Species of Native Plants. 

 By D. Petrie, M.A. 

 [Read before the Otago Institute, 9th June, 1885.] 

 Cotula goyeni, n. sp. 



A minute, prostrate, creeping herb. 



Stems very short, clothed by the leaves, and woolly below 

 their insertion. 



Leaves broadly-oblong, £ - ± inch long ; upper half cut into 

 5-7 linear lobes directed forwards, greyish-green ; lower half 

 entire, membranous, scarious, 1 -nerved, more or less pubescent 

 on the margin and outer surface. 



Heads small, subsessile or sessile at the tips of the branches ; 

 peduncles very short (rarely exceeding £ inch), woolly or 

 pubescent ; bracts in one or two series, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 dark-purple at the edges: outer florets, female in one series; 

 inner hermaphrodite ; style crowned by a thin disc-like flattened 

 stigma, in both female and hermaphrodite flowers ; stamens 



