406 Transactions. — Boiaini. 



The fruit, however, is not fleshy and indehiscent, but a dry 

 bilocular capsule, opening by two rather large rounded pores 

 between the persistent calyx-teeth. The seeds are numerous 

 and very minute. The present species is widely spread over 

 the interior of Otago, at elevations ranging . from 2,500ft. 

 to 4,000ft. I can give the following localities for it : Mount 

 Kyeburn, Old Man Eange, Hector Mountains, Mount Pisa, 

 Mount Cardrona, Mount x\rnould, Mount Tyndall (iMatukitnki 

 basin), Ben Lomond, and Mount Bonpland. 



12. Note on occurrence of Carcx Uirjopina, Wahl., in New 



Zealand. 

 In vol. xiii., p. 332, of the -'Transactions of the N.Z. 

 Institute," I described what I regarded as a new species of 

 Carcx under the name of C. parheri. The specimens then at 

 my disposal wx^re immature, but I have recently gathered an 

 excellent series of mature forms, which show that my species 

 is identical with the European C. JagojnnajWah]. The name 

 bestow^ed on it by me therefore becomes a synonym of the 

 latter species. Mr. T. F. Cheesemau, F.L.S., in his " Eevision 

 of the New Zealand Carices" (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xvi., 

 p. 426), w^as the first to notice its resemblance to Wahlenberg's. 

 plant. The present species adds one more to the growing 

 number of indigenous pkuits that are common to New Zealand 

 and Northern and Central Europe. It grows plentifully on 

 the Hector Mountains at a height of 6,000it., and has been 

 gathered by Mr. A. C'-. Purdie at an elevation of 3,000ft. near 

 the head of Lake VN^akatipu. I have not met with it at a 

 lower elevation than 5,000ft., near Mount Aspiring. 



13. Note on Accena huchanani, Hook. f. 



In the " Handbook of the New Zealand Flora," this species 

 is described as having a single stamen, but I have specimens- 

 othervrise indistinguishable from it in which the stamens are 

 uniformly two. The error, if error it be, is no doubt due to 

 the imperfect materials which Sir Joseph Hooker had to 

 examine. 



14. Note on Olearia Jicctorl, Hook. f. 



Some two years ago I received flovvering specimens of this 

 species of Olearia from Catlin's River, collected by Mr. J. T. 

 Bryant, and I have more recently gathered specimens from 

 a plant grown in the garden of Mr. John Buchanan, F.L.S., 

 at North-east Valley, and brought by him from Lake Wanaka 

 many years ago. As the flowers are as yet undescribed, I 

 append a notice of them. 



Flov.'ers solitary or in fascicles of two or three, boi'oe on 

 short aborted lateral shoots, and springing from below the 



