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Order XLII. Erice^. 

 Genus 1. Gaultheria, Linn. 

 1. G. calycina, sp. nov. 



Shrub (from specimen, apparently erect growth), branch 



in. long, subflexuous, slender, 1 line diameter ; outer bark 

 silvery-grey, longitudinally furrowed, bearing 7 branchlets at 

 top 1^ in. -2 in. long, dark-red, glabrous, very leafy. Leaves 

 numerous, suberect and spreading, oblong-lanceolate, 8 lines 

 long, 3 lines broad, flat, margins serrulate, teeth blunt ; tip 

 subacute, thickened, a little knobbed; base slightly tapering; 

 pale-green, much veined on both surfaces, veins anastomosing, 

 translucent ; petioles sub 1 line long, stout, red. Flowers 

 terminal in small corymbs 1 in.-l^ in. diameter ; peduncles 

 much bracteolate, bracts pale -green, deltoid -ovate -acute, 

 patent, pedicels stout, 1 line long, curved, with 2-3 spreading 

 bracts at base. Calyx rather large, inflated, pale- green, 

 5-lobed; lobes ovate, acute, thin, margins entire. Corolla 

 tubular, red, 2 lines long, 5-lobed ; lobes small, recurved, 

 obtuse. 



Hab. Euahine Mountain-range, east side; 1898: Mr. A. 

 Olsen. 



Obs. A species having affinity with G. glandtdosa, mihi 

 (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxviii., p. 600). 



Genus 2. Pernettya, Gaud. 

 1. P. polyphylla, sp. nov. 



Plant a small twiggy glabrous under-shrub, semi-prostrate 

 and suberect; branches spreading, 4 in. -5 in. long, slender, 

 bearing many short branchlets, which are sometimes branched, 



1 in. -fin. long, subsecund, aiid erect. Leaves numerous and 

 closely set on tips of branchlets, quadrifariously disposed, 

 subdecussate, erect, imbricate, linear-lanceolate, sub 2 lines 

 long, margins entire, 3-nerved, tips obtuse, thickish, pale- 

 green ; petiole ^ line long, stout, reddish, terete, swollen at 

 base. Flowers few, terminal, solitary on tips of branchlets ; 

 peduncle short, bracteate ; bracts broadly ovate, pale-brown, 

 appressed. Calyx small, lobes ovate-acuminate, tips minutely 

 ciliolate, margins membranous, finely serrulate. Corolla 

 linear-tubular, 2 lines long, reddish-brown, slightly hairy 

 within ; lobes one-third length, linear-acuminate-acute, re- 

 curved, densely woolly-pilose with white hairs, smooth, 

 shining without. Anthers included, linear-oblong, dark-red. 

 Style shorter than anthers ; stigma capitate. Fruit globular, 

 size of a small pea, dark-red, shining, style persistent. 



Hab. Euahine Mountain-range, east side, secondary sum- 

 mits ; 1898: Mr A. Olsen. 



Obs. A strikingly neat httle plant, with showy fruit. 



