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pact, branched above. Stems and peduncles densely puberulous. 

 Leaves numerous in opposite pairs, mostly small, under 3 lines 

 long (a few scattered lower ones 8-9 lines long), sub-rhombic- 

 ovate, or obovate, impressed underneath as if stamped (sunk) 

 within margin and between veins, once or twice toothed, the 

 smallest entire. Flowers rather numerous, showy, solitary, 

 axillary in opposite pairs ; peduncle X line long. Calyx 2^ lines 

 long, glabrous, sub-campanulate, 4-lobed ; lobes large, obtuse, 

 coarsely and prominently veined. Corolla ringent, inflated, 

 pilose without, 9 lines long ; white, with straight dark-pink 

 veins (usually 8 above and 9 below), with a large orange spot at 

 base of lower lip, and also of filaments ; tube rather short ; 

 lower lobes large, spreading, sub-rectangular, with straight 

 lateral margins ; apices deeply emarginate and sinuous ; upper 

 lip recurved, lobes notched. Anthers glabrous, very obtuse, 

 dark-umber ; edges of valves largely ciliate with stiff white 

 hairs ; spurs of posterior pair equal, white, acute. Stigma sub- 

 globose and (with style) finely pilose. Capsule oblong, 3^ lines 

 long, obtuse, sub-compressed at top, with base of style persistent, 

 puberulous. Seeds white, membranaceous ; testa very lax, 

 winged above, produced below, striate with minute transverse bars. 



Hab. Bases of high wooded cliffs forming the banks of the 

 Eiver Mangatawhainui, near Norsewood, County of Waipawa; 

 1886: W.C. 



Obs. I. This plant is nearly allied to E. cuneata, Forst., but 

 differs from that species in several particulars: as in its larger 

 lobes to both calyx and corolla, the latter spreading, richly 

 coloured, with straight lateral margins ; in its glabrous and 

 coloured and largely ciliated (almost crested) anthers, with equal 

 spurs, etc. But, as both Hooker and Bentham have each sepa- 

 rately remarked (the former on our New Zealand, and the latter 

 on the Australian species), " the several species are very vari- 

 able" ; and this I have also often proved. 



II. A small variety of this plant (a. microiohyUa) is found 

 20 miles further south, in the open plains between Tahoraiti and 

 Woodville ; it closely resembles this one, only it is very much 

 smaller in all its parts, its numerous leaves being only 1-1^ 

 lines long ; E. tricolor, var. microphylla, Col. 



Class II. — Monocotyledons. 



Order VII.— LILIACE^. 



Genus 5. Astelia, Banks and Solander. 

 1. A. hastata, sp. nov. 



Leaves very long, sub-coriaceous, linear-acuminate, 4 feet 

 long, 1^ inches broad at middle, tip filiform ; many nerved, with 

 2 very prominent and coloured narrow ones ; upper surface 



