CoLENSo. — On Phoenogams. 313 



in order to show settlers what they had to guard against; 

 every plant was ruthlessly eaten off level with the ground. 

 Possibly the slug will yet be proved to be the natural enemy 

 of the Noogoora burr. 



Art. XXXIII. — Phaenogams : A Description of a feiu Ncivly- 

 discovered Indigenous Plants ; being a Further Contribu- 

 tion toivards the snaking hioivn the Botany of Neio Zea- 

 land. 



By William Colenso, F.E.S., F.L.S. (Lond.), &c. 



\Jiead before the Haivke's Bay Philosophical InstittUe, 9th October, 



1S93.] 



Class I. DICOTYLEDONS. 

 Order I. Eanunculace^. 



Genus 8.'= Ranunculus, Linn. 

 1. B. sychnopetala, mihi. 



Having this year received perfect specimens of the flowers 

 of this fine plant, I can now supply what was wanting in the 

 former description of it.f Achenes numerous, roughish, sub 

 50, styles much produced 1 line long erect and slightly re- 

 curved, greenish-yellow ; tips minutely penicillate ; receptacle 

 elongated, ovoid. The anthers are also placed in 4 rows, the 

 outer 2 rows patent, the inner 2 rows shorter, erect. While, 

 however, the flowers were perfect, and in good condition for 

 examination, they w^ere not advanced enough to enable me to 

 say much of their achenes, the same being unripe. 



Hab. (with former-described). Norse wood; Mr. A. Olsen: 

 1893. 



Order XXII. Leguminos^. 



Genus 1. Carmichselia, Br. 

 1. C. micrantha, sp. nov. 



"A much-branched erect shrub, about 8ft .-9ft. high "f 

 branches terete, tawny-yellow-green, glabrous ; my specimen, 

 the top of a large branch about 1ft. long, 2h lines diameter at 

 base where cut off, the bark curiously (almost symmetrically) 

 closely split-fissured longitudinally ; fissures lanceolate sub 1 

 line long ultimately coalescing, with purple-coloured edges, 



* The numbers of the orders aud genera given here are those of 

 them in the " Handbook of the New Zealand Flora." 

 t Vide Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxiv., p. 324. 



