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to his R. crassifolia, is really the same plant. That being so, Cunning- 

 ham's specific name should be restored. Mr. Hemsley also suggests that 

 the Chatham Islands' H. chathmnica is not separated by characters of suffi- 

 cient importance, and should be included in the circumscription of the 

 species. As I have remarked in the Manual, it principally differs in the 

 longer and narrower and much more sharply toothed leaves. 



V. PlTTOSPORACE^. 



Pittosporum ellipticum, T. Kirk. 



Mountain range south of Te Aroha ; F. N. R. Downard ! Differs from 

 the typical form of the species in the narrower leaves and cream-coloured 

 flowers, and may be deserving of varietal rank. 



XL TlLIACEiE. 



Entelea aiborescens, R. Br. 



Plentiful on Fisherman's Island, a few miles from Motueka, Nelson ; 

 F. G. Gihhs ! 



XIV. RUTACE^. 



Melicope ternata, Forst. 



Bush at Wakapuaka, near Nelson ; F. G. Gihhs ! 



XV. Meliace.e. 



Dysoxylum spectabile, Hook. f. 



Fairly plentiful on Pepin Island, a few males north of Nelson ; F. G. 

 Gihhs / 



XVII. Stackhousiaceje, 



V 



Stackhousia minima, Hook. f. 



Spooner's Range, near Belgrove, Nelson ; F. G. Gihhs ! 



XXIII. Rosacea. 

 Geum unifliorum, Buch. 



McKinnon's Pass, south-west Otago ; R. J. Matthews ! F. G. Gihhs / 

 These are the first specimens I have seen from Otago. Mr. Petrie informs 

 me that it has also been collected on the Takitimo Ranges, Southland. 



Acaena glabra, Buch. 



Black - birch Creek, Hooker Valley, Mount Cook District ; T. F. C. 

 McKinnon's Pass, south-west Otago ; F. G. Gihhs ! 



XXIV. Saxipragace^. 

 Quintinia acutifolia, T. Kirk. 



Mount Owen, Buller Valley ; F. G. Gihhs ! 



XXVII. Haloragace^. 



Dr. Schindler, in his recent monograph of the family (" Das Pflanzen- 

 reich," heft 23), makes a considerable number of changes in the nomen- 

 clature of the New Zealand species of Raloragis. As some of these appear 



