4G2 Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand. 



and underground. For ship building it is (like the teak, which belongs 



to the same order) a most valuable wood ; as the injury which it has 



received from being perforated in various places, by a large grub 



peculiar to the tree, does not essentially diminish its value for the 



timbers of ships or for the knees of boats. It grows from fifteen to 



thirty feet without a branch, and varying from twelve to twenty feet 



in circumference." 



LABIATE, Juu. 



Micromeria, Bcntham. 



Calyx tubulostis, 13 rariua sub-15-striatus, 5-dentatus. Corolla tubus 



a?qualis, rectus ; limbus bilabiatus, labium supcrius integrum vel emar- 



ginatum. Stamina 4, didynama, inferiora longioraadscendentia, apice 



perparia appproximata, vel rarius subdivergentia. Anfhera libera?, bi- 



loculares. 



391. M. Cunninghamii, (Bentb.) caule herbaceo prostrato tenuiter pube- 

 scentc, foliis petiolatis rotundatis subintegerrimis, pedicellis elongatis nudis, 

 calycibus hirsutis, dentibus ovato-lanceolatis, fauce intus nuda. Benth. Lab. 

 Gen. and Sp. Suppl. p. 730. — Thymi species. R. C. Mss. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). At Manga Muka, on the Hokianga 

 river. — 1834, R. Cunningham. 



Obs. Calyx magnitudine M. Douglasii et pari modo post anthesin ovato- 

 globosus. Dentes intus villosi, sed faux nuda. Corolla tubo incluso, mag- 

 nitudine et forma M. satureoides et australis. (Mentha sp. R. Br.) 



A very remarkable species as belonging to the American section 



Hesperothymus, and indeed very nearly allied to M. Brownei (Thymus 



Brownei, Swartz) a West Indian and South American plant. Benth. 



in litt, 



BORAGINEiE, Juss. 



1. Anchusa, L. 



392. A. spathulata, caule filiformi procumbente, foliis petiolatis ovatis ob- 

 tusis piloso-hispidis distantibus, pedicellis laterifoliis solitariis, nucibus lasvi- 

 bus. Roem. and Sch. Syst. Veg. iv. p. 100. — Myosotis spathulata. Forst. 

 Prodr. n. 62. Willd. Sp, PL I. p. 748. A. Rich. Ft. Nov. Zel. p. 198. 



New Zealand (Middle Island). — 1778, G. Forster. Astrolabe Harbour, 

 — 1827, D'Urville. (Northern Island), dry rocky elevated spots. Wangaroa. 

 — 1820, A. Cunningham. 



Obs. Veram esse Anchusam plantse recentis indagator. R. Br. Prodr. 



p. 494. 



2. Myosotis, L. 



393. M. Forsteri ; foliis obovato-spathulatis strigoso-hispidis, racemis 

 ebracteatis, pedicellis in fructu erecto-patentibus longitudine calycis, laciniis 

 calycis oblongis obtusiusculis trinervibus. Lehm. Asper. p. 95. Roem. and 

 Sdi. Syst. Veg. iv. p. 779. Endl. Syn. Fl. Insul. Occ. Austr. in Ann. des 

 Wien. Mus. Band i. p. 174. n. 1221. 



New Zealand (Middle Island.— 1773, G. Forster). Endl. 



[To be continued.] 



