408 Tra nsac t ions. — Bo fanij . 



This species is founded on the remarkable fohage, which is 

 quite different from tliat of any other species, and notably so 

 from that of C. vernicosa, with which it is closely allied. Tire 

 broad, glabrous, strongly-ribbed, acutely-toothed leaves make 

 it a totally different plant in appearance, and, though the head 

 does not differ materially from that of C. vernicosa, the 

 general appearance of the scape is different. In place of the 

 narrow shining bracts, the tip of each of which reaches the 

 base of the next, the broad serrate bracts of this species, set 

 on a much stouter scape dusted with tomentum hairs, con- 

 sidera'bly overlap those above them. In one of my specimens 

 the scape is branched, and carries two heads. 



This species was discovered by my brother, Mr. Martin 

 Chapman, of Wellington, when we were out together on a 

 small piece of level country, near a large rock marked on the 

 chart, in the vicinity of Venus Cove, Perseverance Harbour, 

 Campbell Island, and I have named it from the locality. We 

 found about a dozen plants in the space of an acre here, and 

 none beyond. I have found it difficult to keep in cultivation. 



Art. XLIV. — Further Notes on the Three Kings Islands. 



By T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Curator of the Auck- 

 land Museum. 



[Read before the Aucldand Institute, Hrd November, 1S90.] 



Plates XXXVIL, XXXVIII. 



In the spring of 1887, when returning from the Kermadec 

 Islands in the Colonial Government steamer " Stella," I was 

 granted an opportunity of landing on the main island of the 

 Three Kings group, the natural productions of which were 

 previously quite unknown. My visit was limited to three or 

 four hours ; but sufficient information was obtained to make it 

 apparent that the group was worth a more careful examina- 

 tion. The notes made on this occasion were embodied in a 

 paper read before this Institute, and printed in vol. xx. of the 

 Transactions.* 



It was not long before another opj)ortunity of visiting the 

 gi'oup arose. In the spring of 1889 great qua)itities of wreckage 

 were washed ashore between the North Cape and Cape Maria 

 van Diemen, and elsewhere on the northern coasts of the pro- 

 vince. This wreckage was identified as belonging to a missing 



* Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xx., p. 141. 



