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1st leaf broadly linear, curving downwards, sides incurved, 

 5 mm. long. 



2nd leaf usually simple, but larger or sometimes ternate, 

 with one of the lateral leaflets much reduced. 



5th leaf, tvi^o lateral and one terminal leaflet, which is 

 rather larger than the lateral; leaf 1-6 cm. long; lateral 

 leaflets 6-5 mm. x 5 mm. 



This species was included by Hooker with S. tetraptera, 

 Ait., as var. /8 viicrophylla, although he distinctly states that 

 the two forms are very distinct, and remain so under cultiva- 

 tion.* Kirk also considered that there was only one species 

 of Sophora in New Zealand,! and divided it into three varie- 

 ties and one sub-variety. The seedling form, however, of the 

 plant under consideration differs much from that of S. tetrap- 

 tera, var. grandiflora, its stem being more slender and flexu- 

 ous, branching at an earlier age, in colour more yellow, and 

 with leaves and leaflets much smaller — e.g., the 5th leaf in 

 <S. microjyhylla is 1-6 cm. and lateral leaflet 6-5 mm., while 

 in S. grandiflora (Plate XXXIV., fig. 71) it is 2*5 cm. and the 

 lateral leaflets 1-2 cm. A form from the Chatham Islands, 

 given to me by Mr. S. D. Barker, seems also distinct in its 

 seedling form (I have only one plant). This early on de- 

 veloped more leaflets in each leaf than in either of the 

 above, while in size these are intermediate between the two 

 (Plate XXXIV., fig. 70). Seeing these well-marked differ- 

 ences in the juvenile forms of Sophora in New Zealand, I hold 

 that there are certainly two, and perhaps four {S. yrostrata), 

 quite distinct species, which will possibly vary very consider- 

 ably ; nor is it unhkely that they may hybridize, and so 

 produce some of the so-called " intermediate " forms. 



No. 341. Veronica cataractse, Forst. 



Seed from cultivated plant in garden of Mr. A. Bathgate, 

 Dunedin ; the plant originally from one of the West Coast 

 sounds. 



Description of Seedling. 



Hypocotyle short, pale, terete, glabrous, fleshy, 2-3 mm. 

 long. 



Cotyledons rotund-oblong, obtuse or subacute, fleshy, 

 rounded at base of lamina, glabrous, pale ; petioles very 

 short, connate at base. 



1st leaf 2-7 mm. x 1-5 mm., oval, acute, entire, glabrous; 

 petiole short. 



2nd leaf similar. 



* " Handbook of the New Zealand Flora," p. 53. 

 t " Forest Flora," p. 85. 



