344 Transactions. — Botany. 



Hab. North Island : In rather dry places, Hawke's Bay ; 

 Colenso ! Mungaroa, Wellington ; T. Kirk. 



Var. rarrmlosa. 



Stems rather stout, clothed below with the bases of old 

 petioles. Panicle much-branched above and below ; upper 

 branches lin.-LJin. long; drupes not seen. 



Hab. South "island : Broken Biver, 2,600ft. ; J. D. Enys ! 



(?) Var. albocarpa. 



Bhizomes more robust, sometimes thicker than a goose- 

 quill. Leaves larger than in the type ; flowers not seen. 

 Fruiting panicles much-branched, branches lin.-l^in. long, 

 lax or compact ; drupes minute, spherical, milk-white, tipped 

 with the black perianth segments. 



Hab. Southland, Kew (1880), Sandy Point, &c. 



This will probably prove distinct from G. monoica ; but in 

 the absence of flowers I refrain from raising it to specific 

 rank. A remarkable form of this plant collected at Kew and 

 Woodend in 1880 has erect or suberect branches 12in.-18in. 

 long, with from 4 co 6 shortly-petioled fleshy leaves, crowded 

 at each node. 



2. G. mixta, n.s. 



Bhizomes slender ; leaves l^in.-2-|in. long, with weak 

 scattered hairs on petiole and blade ; blade ovate or slightly 

 cordate, rounded at the apex, crenate but not lobed. Scape 

 very slender, unbranched, exceeding the leaves; upper flowers 

 lax, sessile or shortly pedicelled ; staminate, pistillate, and 

 hermaphrodite flowers intermixed, staminate mostly pedi- 

 cellate ; perianth segments 2, narrow linear-oblong, obtuse ; 

 female perianth segments 4, ovate, unequal, sometimes with 

 two linear-oblong processes springing from the base of the 

 segment ; hermaphrodite flowers with ovate segments, alter- 

 nating with two linear-oblong ; filaments short, anthers ap- 

 parently abortive. Fruit not seen. G. ovata, Petrie, in 

 Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxv. (1892), 274 (in part), leaves only. 



Hab. South Island: Otago ; J. Buchanan! A. Hamilton! 

 D. Petrie. 



• A carious plant, resembling small states of G. iirorepcns, 

 but essentially separated by the simple, lax, subracemose 

 scape exceeding the leaves, which distinguishes it from all 

 other species. The flowers may be either male or female 

 primarily, but in either case one or two of the complementary 

 form and one or two hermaphrodite will be found on each 

 rhachis ; rarely from three to five female flowers may be found 

 at the base, the upper being staminate. Better and more 

 copious material is required to form a satisfactory diagnosis. 



