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chathamica, giving a grey colour to the twigs ; the corolla 

 lobes are very short, and the stigrnatic hairs are much shorter 

 than in 0. chathamica. G. chathamica is also always a tree, 

 and never a shrub, as is the case with G. petiolata. Seed- 

 lings of Goprosma petiolata are much wanted. 



2. Dracophyllum arboreum, sp. nov. 



Always a low tree, never a shrub. Passes in course of 

 development through a broad-leaved juvenile form, which 

 persists until plant is 35 m. tall, when the adult shorter 

 needle-shaped leaves make their appearance. Adult trees 

 usually have some shoots bearing only juvenile leaves. Ju- 

 venile leaves 20 cm. long by 15 cm. broad, gradually taper- 

 ing from base to a fine point. Adult leaves needle-shaped, 

 7 - 5cm. long by 2 mm. broad. Both forms of leaves tomentose 

 on margin. Flowers very similar to those of D. scoparium. 

 See coloured plate in " Flora Antarctica " (30). 



If Dracophyllum scoparium, to which this plant was re- 

 ferred by both Hooker and Buchanan, does not go through 

 the same remarkable changes, I cannot see that they can 

 possibly be the same species, notwithstanding similarity of 

 flowers. 



3. Drac'>phyllum paludosum, sp. nov. 



After a good deal of hesitation I decided to give a name to 

 this species, for it was necessary to have some name to distin- 

 guish this plant from D. arboreum. From the latter species 

 it differs in its shrubby habit, and especially in its never pass- 

 ing through an extended juvenile stage with broad leaves. 

 Its racemes are rather shorter than those of D. arboreum, and 

 its flowers rather smaller. Perhaps this plant may prove 

 identical with D. scoparium or with some of the forms of D. 

 urvilleanum. 



4. Myrsine coxii, sp. nov. 



A shrub with ultimate branchlets pubescent and leaves 

 forming rather a dense mass, reaching a maximum height of 

 about 4 m., but often very much lower. 



Leaves narrow-obovate, tapering gradually at base into a 

 short petiole, averaging about 2-4 cm. by 9 mm. 



Flowers in fascicles of three or more, rarely in pairs, 

 crowded together on the naked portions of the ultimate 

 branches, occasionally 1-flowered in the axils of the upper 

 leaves ; almost sessile, but pedicels lengthening a little in 

 fruit. 



Calyx 4-fid to slightly below middle ; segments ovate, with 

 broad base, pale-green, ciliated, marked with a few red 

 glandular dots, acute. 



