364 Transactions. 



(including E. Macnabiana) and Juan Fernandez are indistinguishable from 

 those from New Zealand. Those from Easter Island are similar, but the 

 leaves and shoots are very hairy. In the Kew Herbarium they are kept 

 as a separate species (S. toromiro). The Chatham Island form is a distinct 

 variety or perhaps closely allied species. 



Edwardsia prostrata (Buchanan). 



Sophora prostrata Buchanan, Trans. N.Z Inst., 16, 395, 1884. 

 S. tetraptera var. prostrata Kirk, Forest FL N.Z., 85, 1889. 



Confined to the mountains of the South Island of New Zealand. 



Edwardsia tetraptera (Miller). 



Sophora tetraptera J. Miller, Ic. PL, t. 1, 1780 (also S. tetraptera of 

 Bot. Mag., t. 167 ; Lamarck, III., t. 325 ; and Aiton, Hort. 

 Kew., ed. 1, 2, 43 : fide Salisbury). Edwardsia grandiflora Salisb., 

 Trans. Linn. Soc., 9, 299, 1808. Sophora tetraptera var. grandi- 

 flora Hook, f., Handb. N.Z. Fl., 1, 53, 1864. S. tetraptera var. 

 howinsula Oliver, Trans. N.Z. Inst., 49, 139, 1917 (Lord Howe 

 Island). 



Miller's Sophora tetraptera is founded on specimens flowering and fruiting 

 at Chelsea and Islington (England) introduced from New Zealand. The 

 plate is good, and represents the large New Zealand form. There is no 

 description. Salisbury described E. grandiflora from specimens collected 

 by Sir J. Banks in New Zealand, and gives the references quoted above. 

 This species is confined to the North Island of New Zealand, with a variety 

 in Lord Howe Island. 



Coriaria ruscifolia L. 



Coriaria ruscifolia Linne, Sp. PL, ed. 1, 1037, 1753. C. sarmentosa 

 Forster, Prodr., 71, 1786. 



Linne's species is based on plate 12 of Feuillet's Journ. Obs. Phys. 

 Math, et Bot., 1725. The figure shows small broadly-ovate leaves in threes 

 at the racemes and opposite elsewhere. Specimens agreeing with these, 

 except that the leaves are all opposite, are in the British Museum from 

 Talcahuano, Chile. A plant from Ternuco, Chile, has very large ovate 

 acuminate leaves in both threes and twos. The South American forms 

 cannot be distinguished as a species from those of New Zealand and 

 Polynesia. Though the leaves may be more acuminate, and the racemes 

 longer, with more scattered flowers, yet specimens from Fiji, Samoa, Sunday 

 Island, and New Zealand are indistinguishable from Chilian examples. 



Coriaria lurida Kirk. 



Coriaria thymifolia Hook. f. (not Humb. & Bonpl.), Fl. Nov. Zel., 

 1, 45, 1853. C. lurida Kirk, Students' Fl. N.Z., 98, 1899. 



This New Zealand species, hitherto referred to C. thymifolia, can easily 

 be distinguished from all the American forms by the habit and shape of the 

 leaves. C. thymifolia occurs from Mexico to Peru, and is a quite distinct 

 species with small closely-set ovate acute leaves, which, though varying in 

 size, are nearly constant in shape The New Zealand plant has the leaves 



