198 Transactions. — Botany. 



Order XLIL— ERICE^. 

 Genus 1. Gaultheria, Linn. 

 1. G. divergent, sp. nov. 



Shrub " 2 feet 6 inches high," erect, much branched ; 

 branches 6-8 inches long, slender ; branchlets finely and 

 sparsely pubescent, with scattered long rigid stout adpressed 

 sub-spinous hairs, glabrous and shining ; extending, also, on 

 midrib of leaves below ; the young branchlets with scattered 

 long simple linear adpressed leaf-like bracteoles, which are 

 fugacious. Leaves alternate, numerous, sub-erect, flat, oblong 

 and broadly lanceolate, usually 8-9 lines long, sometimes (but 

 rarely) only 3-4 lines, coriaceous, largely reticulated on both 

 sides, the upper surface sub-rugulose, varnished, glossy, reddish- 

 brown ; margins thickened, finely serrate-mucronate ; petioles 

 short, stout, pilose, 1 line long. Flowers in simple terminal 

 and sub-terminal loose axillary racemes, 2 inches long, distant, 

 spreading ; peduncles and pedicels pilose ; pedicels slender, 

 curved, 3 lines long, bibracteate as well as having bracts at their 

 bases. Calyx much corrugated at base ; lobes large spreading, 

 cut nearly to base, narrow ovate-acuminate very acute, sub- 

 membranaceous, 3-nerved, margins entire. Corolla not seen, 

 past flowering. Capsule small, dry, erect (not depressed), sub- 

 poculiform, 5-angled; style dark-red, long, stout, erect, 1 line 

 long, persistent, minutely puberulent near tip ; stigma depressed, 

 slightly capitate. 



Hab. On the slopes of Mount Tongariro, west side, County 

 of East Taupo ; 1887 : Mr. II. Hill. 



Obs. A species allied to G. rupestris, Br., (of which I have 

 two large drawings with dissections, :: ) but differing widely in its 

 margined leaves, in its long and pilose bibracteate pedicels, in 

 its long narrow free-spreading and entire calycine lobes, and in 

 its fruit not being depressed but erect like a small gun-cap. 



Genus 4. Leucopogon, Br. 



1. L. heteropliijllus, sp. nov. 



Plant low, shrubby, diffuse, spreading, much branched ; 

 branches slender, erect, 4-8 inches high, leafy ; young ones 

 pubescent. Leaves imbricate, small, 1-H lines long, of various 

 shapes and sizes — oblong, narrow-oblong, ovate, and elliptic ; 

 tips thickened and very obtuse, concave, glabrous, shining, 

 coriaceous. 8-6-nerved, striate bch.w, pale green, narrowly 

 margined; margins finely ciliate ; petioles red, glossy, those of 

 the narrow leaves slender, l line long, 1 ot dilated at base, in- 



* Viz., A. Richard, "Flora N.Z.," tab. 27; Hook, til., " Flora N.Z.." 

 tab. 42, 



