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the style-branches in length. I suspect that my plant from 

 Clark's Diggings, referred to C. dccnrtata in Mr. Cheeseman's 

 last paper (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxiv., p. 414), is a young 

 state of the present species. 



2. Coprosma ramulosa, sp. nov. 



I propose this name for my Coprosma, pubens, described in 

 a paper communicated to the Otago Institute last year (see 

 Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxvi., pp. 267 and 268). I now find 

 that the latter name is preoccupied, having been chosen by 

 the late Asa Gray to distinguish a species native to the Sand- 

 wich Islands. The flowers of this plant are still unknown. 



3. Danthonia oreophila, sp. nov. 



I propose this name for my Danthonia pallida, described in 

 the same paper as the foregoing. In selecting the very ap- 

 propriate specific name D. pallida I overlooked the fact that 

 Eobert Brown had applied the same name to an Australian 

 species. 



4. Asprella lsevis, sp. nov. 



Culms slender, branched at the base, sparingly leafy, lOin. 

 to 30in. high. 



Leaves much shorter than the culms, narrow, flat or in- 

 volute, thin, smooth, and usually glabrous, but the lower 

 sheaths of the larger forms are downy. 



Spike inclined or pendent, narrow-linear, 2^in.-5in. long, of 

 14 to 26 spikelets. 



Spikelets solitary, slender, one- or two-flowered, about /gin. 

 long inclusive of the short blunt mucro. 



Empty glumes represented by two very narrow, erect, 

 concave, finely ciliated bristles, three-fourths the length of the 

 flowering-glume. Flowering-glume lanceolate, rounded at the 

 back, smooth, 3- to 5-nerved, shortly and often unequally 

 three-toothed at the apex, the middle tooth forming a short 

 blunt serrate mucro. Palea about four-fifths the length of the 

 flowering-glume, its nerves smooth or delicately ciliate towards 

 the top. 



Hab. Catlin's Eiver district, near the seaside; and Matuki- 

 tuki Valley (Lower Wanaka), 1,100ft. 



The present species differs from A. gracilis, Hook, f., in the 

 smooth obscurely nerved keelless flowering-glumes, which are 

 truncately 3-toothed; and end in a short blunt serrate mucro ; 

 and. in the constant presence and length of the two filiform 

 ciliate outer glumes. The Catlin's Eiver plant is a very 

 short slender form, everywhere perfectly glabrous, and, ex- 

 cept in the flowers, differs rather widely from the specimens 

 from Lake Wanaka. 



