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ocln*ea rather large, bladdery, red-brown, margins irregular, 

 denticulate. Flowers axillary, 3-5-7 together in short sub-coryrn- 

 bose racemes ; pedicels very short, about Jg-th inch long, sub- 

 sessile. Perianth membranous ; segments cut nearly to base, 

 large, very obtuse, crumpled, wavy, spreading, finely and closely 

 reticulated ; margins sub-crenulately-erose, white with a tinge 

 of pink, sometimes green with white margins ; adhering closely 

 to ovary when in fruit and not succulent. Stigma large, 

 spreading, red, sub-turbinate, very roughly papillose or irregu- 

 larly and largely sub-muricate. Nuts small, y^th inch long, 

 blackish-brown, sub-rhomboidal or broadly lanceolate, sub-acute, 

 triquetrous, one-third exserted, finely tuberculate or rugulose, 

 not glossy. 



Hub. Dry stony places ; on ridges and mounds on hills, 

 various places in Hawke's Bay ; 1850-1886 : W.C. 



Obs. This plant I have long known, but had always until 

 lately considered it to be identical with M. axillaris, Hook, fil., 

 without, however, having closely examined it. I now find it to 

 differ largely from that species in several important characters ; 

 also from the M. axillaris of Australia and Tasmania, which is 

 said to be the same as the New Zealand species. This plant is 

 a considerably larger and stouter one, of a different habit, with 

 much smaller leaves and more numerous flowers, that differ in 

 many respects as to inflorescence, texture, form and colour of 

 perianth, size and shape of stigma, form and appearance of 

 nut, etc. Notwithstanding, it is closely allied to M. axillaris in 

 natural sequence. 



Order LXVIL— THYMELE^E. 



Genus 1. Pimelea, Banks and Solander. 



1. P. stylosa, sp. nov. 



A (?) small shrub of compact erect growth ; branchlets 

 rather stout, erect, sub-fastigiate ; bark reddish-grey, rough 

 with numerous minute black muricated specks, and densely 

 clothed with coarse short greyish hairs. Leaves yellowish-green, 

 glabrous, close, erect, sub-imbricate, broadly lanceolate-ovate, 

 obtuse, i lines long, coriaceous, much wrinkled below, very 

 broadly keeled, petiolate ; petiole thick, 1 line long. Floral 

 leaves oblong, about same length as cauline but a little broader 

 and more obtuse, sessile, margined, dark-green, veins closely and 

 largely anastomosing, visible when held between eye and light. 

 Flowers pinkish, terminal at tips of branches, 10-12 together, 

 forming corymbose-like heads ; perianth 7 lines long, "thickly 

 and coarsely hairy on the outside ; limb 4 lines diameter, lobes 

 oval, obtuse, strongly 1 -nerved with veins much branched and 

 anastomosing; tube red, rather slender, veined. Filaments 

 exserted, long, stout, spreading ; style very long. 



