CoLEXSO. — On New Iiidiaenous Planis. 385 



cate, the margins of tips crenulato-deuticulate. Stamens 5 ; 

 anthers orange-coloured. Styles 5 (or more) much-branched 

 and forked, their tips (stigmas) irregularly shaped, broad, 

 obovate, cuneate, lobed, emarginate, obtuse. Fruit, im- 

 mature. 



Hah. Margins of streamlets, low open grounds, south of 

 Dannevirke, County of Waipawa ; December, 1890 : W. C. 

 (Apparently very local.) 



Obs. A species allied to D. binata, Ltib. (an Australian 

 plant), but certainly distinct in many important characters; 

 very much so from the plate of that species with dissections 

 given in " Nov. Holl. Plant." Also, from description of the 

 northern form of D. binata, as given in the "Flora Nov. Zel.," 

 which plant (writing from memory of it) is a much larger and 

 stouter one. This plant in drying stains the papers used red. 



Order XXYIII. Myrtace^e. 

 Genus 2. Metrosideros, Br. 

 1. M. aurata, sp. nov. 



Young branches terete, glabrous (as, also, leaves) ; bark 

 reddish, slightly and closely rugulose or M'rinkled. Leaves 

 oblong- and sub-oblong- lanceolate, obtuse, lin.-l^in. long, 5-6 

 lines broad, decussate, light-green, erect, slightly spreading, 

 sub-coriaceous, shining; margins thickened and recurved ; pro- 

 fusely and irregularly covered with circular glandular dots of 

 2 sizes, some of them dark-red on the under-surface ; veins 

 diagonal, sub-parallel, distant, indistinctly forked near margins ; 

 midrib stout, llattened below, not prominent ; petioles short, 

 Y^in. long, stout, red, glabrous, sub-rugulose, swollen at base. 

 FlowciS terminal on tips of branches, erect in small loose 

 cymes of 7-12, the outer ones usually 3, and 2, together, some- 

 times solitary as the others ; peduncles decussate, 2-2^- lines 

 long, with a pair of very small leaflets at base ; pedicels short 

 or 0, the calyx-tube (ovary) gradually forming them. Calyx- 

 tube infundibuliform, 6-8 lines long, sub-terete, obsoletely 

 ribbed, pale-green with a yellowish tinge, glabrous ; lobes 5, 

 large, sub-orbicular, concave, yellowish-green, glandular dotted; 

 margins membranous and minutely denticulate. Petals yellow, 

 large, sub-orbicular, concave, veined, minutely dotted with 

 glandular dots ; margins finely and closely lacinio-ciliolate ; 

 scarcely clawed but thickened and obsoletely veined at base. 

 Stamens numerous, very slender, sub-iin. long, terete, wavy, 

 spreading ; at first expanding yellow, but soon becoming light- 

 red ; anthers small, oblong, yellow. Style longer than sta- 

 mens and much stouter, terete, tawny-reddish-yellow ; stigma 

 slightly sub-capitate and narrowly margined, ovary deeply sunk 

 within calyx-tube, indehiscent. 

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