210 Specimen of the Botany of Neiv Zealand. 



mentioned species, I think their mutual affinities and their diagno- 

 stic characters will be fully determined as follows : 



1. EpUobium canescens, nob. Foliis lanceolatis, acuminatis, integer- 

 rimis; ramisque scriceo canescentibus ; siliqua pedunculi longitu- 

 dinc. 



2. EpUobium angustissimum, Curtis. Foliis lanceolato-lineavibus, ob- 

 tusis, glanduloso-scrratis ; ramisque glaberrimis, siliqua pedunculo 

 duplo longiori. 



3. EpUobium rosmarinifolium, Haenke. Foliis lanceolatis, acuminatis, 

 subintegerrimis, ramisque puberulis ; siliqua pedunculo quadruplo 

 longiori. 



I -will now beg leave to remark with respect to the EpUobium an- 

 gustissimum of Curt., that that species furnishes a variety with leaves 

 still more narrow and stem feeble, which has been designated by the 

 name of EpUobium Dodoncei by Allioni, of EpUobium Lobelii by Vil- 

 lars, of E. Halleri by Retz ; and in later periods by E. angustissimum, 

 /3 alpinum by Sering. 



And with respect to the E. rosmarinifolium, Haenke, I beg leave 

 to remark that it is a species totally distinct from his homonym, the 

 E. rosmarinifolium, Pursch. This last is in fact a North American 

 plant, discovered in 1810 in the environs of Philadelphia, and since 

 by Bigelow, who calls it E. lineare ; some few years still later in 

 a hundred places south-west of that city, in the territory of Bos- 

 ton. Nuttall has found it, and has given it the name of E. squam- 

 matum. 



XXII. — Floras Insularum Novce Zelandice Precursor ; or a Spe- 

 cimen of the Botany of the Islands of New Zealand, By 

 Allan Cunningham, Esq. 



[Continued from p. 378 of vol. ii. of Sir W. J. Hooker's Companion to the 



Botanical Magazine.] 



EXOGEN^E seu DICOTYLEDONES. 

 PIPERACE.E, Rich. 

 1. Piper, L. 

 323. P. excelsum. Forst. Prodr. n. 20. Rcem. 8f Sch. Syst. Veg. i. p. 313. 

 A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 356. — Kana-Kana of the natives. 



New Zealand (Middle Island). — 1773, Forster. (Northern Island,) a 

 strong rambling shrub, frequent on the margins of forests. — 1834, R. Cun- 

 ningham. 



