Cockayne. — Plants of Chatham Island. 319 



Petals 4. narrow obovate-oblong, 3 - 25 mm. by 2 mm., pale 

 yellowish-green with margin stained pale-purple, much more 

 purple in bud, ciliated, marked towards apex with several 

 glandular red dots, obtuse. 



Fruit globose, bright mauve-coloured, 5 mm. long, by 6 mm. 

 broad. 



This plant is probably the Myrsine nummularia of Bu- 

 chanan's list, to which it bears no resemblance whatsoever. 

 It differs from M. chathamica in several points, the latter 

 plant being a small tree with a thick trunk, with leaves 

 larger and proportionately broader than M. coxii, and having 

 flowers in fascicles of more than three, with distinct pedicels. 

 It also comes into bloom a month later than M. coxii. It 

 gives me great pleasure to cali this species after my friend 

 Mr. F. A. D. Cox. 



5. Veronica gigantea, sp. nov. 



This is V. salicifolia of Buchanan's list. It differs from 

 V. salicifolia in being always a low tree with a distinct 

 trunk. Its seedling form also is quite distinct from that of 

 any form of V. salicifolia examined by me. The early leaves 

 are very coarsely and deeply toothed, and their margins are 

 evenly and closely ciliated with hooked white hairs. The 

 stem is extremely pubescent, and even the hypocotyl is quite 

 downv. Later juvenile leaves are larger than the adult leaves, 

 lanceolate, sessile, entire, acute, ciliated, and with still longer 

 hairs on the prominent midrib, and such are found on a plant 

 32 cm. tall or even much taller. The stem is usually purple, 

 rather soft, and covered with many long soft hairs pressed to 

 its surface. My notes say, "The intense hairiness of this plant 

 even at this stage is very remarkable." The juvenile plant 

 much resembles V. pubescens of New Zealand, for a specimen 

 of which rare plant I am indebted to Mr. Cheeseman, but the 

 inflorescence brings it closer to V. S'dicifolia. The adult 

 leaves are narrow-lanceolate, quite sessile, 8 - 3cm. long by 

 1-8 cm. broad, minutely ciliated, and with the midrib not 

 nearly so much keeled as in V. salicifolia. 



6. Plagianthus chathamicus, sp. nov. 



I have separated this plant from P. betulinus because 

 they differ in the seedling state, and P. chathamicus is also 

 never furnished with reversion shoots. I have gone at some 

 length into this matter elsewhere, and have, as before stated, 

 nothing further to add at present (10). 



7. Sophora chathamica, sp. nov. 



Exactly the same remarks apply to this species as those 

 made above with regard to Plagianthus chathamicus. I have 



