200 Transactions. — Botany. 



E. corymbiflora, Hook, f., a Tasmanian species. It flowers 

 plentifully ; but my specimens bad long passed flowering, and I 

 bave (after a careful search) only seen two flowers, wbicb 

 appeared remarkable for tbeir large exserted anthers. Better 

 specimens, however, are much wanted. 



Genus 8. Dracophyllum, Lab. 



1. D. rubrum, sp. nov. 



A small shrub of (apparently) erect growth. Branches, 3-4 

 inches long, slender, erect, greyish, scarred; branchlets -|-1 

 inch long, very slender, distant and 1-2 together, erect, red- 

 brown, glabrous, ringed, 10-14 leaves at tips. Leaves rigid, 

 erect and sub-recurved, imbricate and sheathing at bases, 1 

 inch long, subulate, % line wide at widest part near dilated base, 

 which is 2 lines wide, sub-quadrate, and many-nerved, very 

 narrow and half- terete at top (not keeled), tip obtuse, margins 

 finely and closely serrulate ; the lower § of leaf canalicu- 

 late above and suddenly stopped, .the leaves deeply marked 

 (bass-relief) with 2-3 impressions of the leaves in their growth ; 

 margins of dilated sheathing portion finely ciliate. Flowers 

 terminal in close sub-corymbose heads or broad short spikes of 

 9 flowers, shortly pedicelled ; floral bracts shorter than flowers, 

 deltoid, 2i lines long, 2-J lines wide at base, amplexicaul, many- 

 nerved ; margins ciliate ; tips thickened, obtuse. Calycine 

 leaves much shorter than corolla-tube, ovate, acute, glabrous, 

 veined, margins ciliate. Corolla orange-red, 3 lines long, 2^ 

 lines diameter ; lobes deltoid, tips thickened, incurved. Anthers 

 broadly-oblong-ovate, tip truncate. Hypogynous scales obovate- 

 oblong, truncate. Style short, stout ; stigma capitate. Capsules 

 (immature) very small at bottom of tube. 



Hah. High lands, base of Mount Kuapehu (Tongariro 

 Range), County of East Taupo; whence specimens were brought 

 by a visitor and given to me (with some others) in 1879. 



Obs. A species having affinity with 7). recurvum, Hook, f., 

 and also rosmarinifolium , Forst., but differing from them in its 

 broader heads of larger and richly coloured flowers, shorter 

 sepals and bracts, and leaves not keeled and very peculiarly 

 marked. 



Order L.— BOEAGINEiE. 



Genus 1. Myosotis, Linn. 



1. M. hamiltonii, sp. nov. 



A prostrate, perennial, spreading herb; the whole plant 

 strigosely hairy. Stems sub-erect, 7-12 inches high, usually 

 simple (one specimen seen forked). Leaves few, small; radical 

 sub-orbicular, 4-0 lines diameter, slightly apiculate, tapering; 

 petioles 6-8 lines long, much dilated al base, margins ciliate; 



