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bordered with yellow. Petals twice as long as the sepals, 

 cuneate, rounded at the top, the upper part bright-yellow, the 

 lower third greenish and more membranous ; veins of the back 

 evident ; gland broad, shallow, crescent-shaped near the very 

 base. 



Eipe achenes not seen. 



Hah. Kough shingly stations at the summit of the Eock 

 and Pillar Eange, opposite Middlemarch, and similar stations 

 on the Old Man Eange, at 4,000ft. and upwards. I found it 

 very plentiful in the former habitat, and rare in the latter. 

 This species seems most nearly alied to B. graciUpes, Hook. f. 

 The leaves, are, however, very different, and the stems 

 neither creep nor give off creeping stolons. It flowers during 

 the first half of November. 



2. Geum leiospermum, sp. nov. 



X small silky or villous perennial herb, with short rosulate 

 leaves, and slender prostrate or ascending stems. 



Leaves IJin. long or less, pinnate ; leaflets about eight 

 pairs, gradually diminishing to the base, the terminal one 

 suborbicular or broadly ovate, -^-in. in diameter or less, all 

 closely, acutely, and uiaequally toothed at the margin. 



Stems few, slender, 4in. long or less, densely clothed with 

 fine villous hairs mixed with rather numerous long soft ones. 



Flowers small, white, solitary in the axis of the lower 

 bracts, and subpaniculately arranged at the top of the stein, 

 at first almost sessile, but with slender pedicels ^in. long when 

 in fruit. 



Stamens 10 ; achenes about 20, on a nearly flat receptacle 

 which is clothed with long silky hairs, perfectly smooth and 

 glabrous, less than -^^in. long, narrow elliptic, slightly com- 

 pressed, and ending in a short slender recurved style about 

 one-third the length of the achene. 



Hah. Mount Cardrona (4,000ft.), Duustan Mountains 

 (2,000ft. -4,000ft.), Upper Waipori (1,800ft.). 



The smooth glabrous achenes of this species, which 

 strongly resemble those of many kinds of native Ranunculus, 

 readily distinguish it from the other two species that are 

 native to our colony. The flowers, so far as I have seen, are 

 invariably white. 



3. Coprosma pubens, sp. nov. 



A much-branched, slender, leafy decumbent or rambling 

 shrub. 



Twigs pale-brown, finely and densely pubescent. 



Leaves very uniform, about ^in. long and iin. wide, narrow 

 obovate, broadly rounded at the apex and often submucronate, 

 the edges slightly recurved when dry, and the lower half 



