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minutely transversely and regularly nicked ; branchlets nume- 

 rous alternate dichotomous, straight, striate, 8in.-9in. long, 

 slender, terete, the larger ones about 1 Kne diameter, the 

 youngest wiry, filiform, and pubescent ; hairs scattered, weak, 

 white, with many stem-clasping broad obtuse bracts near 

 each other at their tips. Leaves 0. Flowers very numerous,, 

 usually in small depressed corymbs of 5, sometimes 2, and 

 sometimes only 1 flower, on the smaller branchlets. Peduncle 

 and pedicels nearly equal in length, short sub 1 line long, 

 pilose, with many fawn-coloured scarious bracteoles, their 

 edges jagged. Calyx dry, semi-scarious, loose, large for 

 flower, half as long as corolla, slightly pilose ; margins sinuate 

 and minutely-toothed, finely ciliolate. Corolla less than -^qVO.. 

 long, standard purple with dark veins. Pod (immature) gla- 

 brous, small, about 1 line long, narrow-linear-ovoid, acuminate ; 

 beak much longer than pod, curved ; stigma capitate, roughly 

 penicillate. 



Hah. Edges of forest, head of Eangitikei Eiver, County of 

 East Taupo ; Mr. Patrick Stirling McLean : 1893. 



Ohs. After close examination I have decided to bring this 

 plant forward as a sjMcies nova of this curious genus ; at the 

 same time I am not wholly satisfied concerning it, through 

 not having seen its ripe fruit. Its whole aspect, however, is 

 peculiar, and apparently differing from its congeners, — in its 

 numerous terete long and filiform yellow-green branchlets 

 with their curiously-fissured bark, and the different disposition 

 of its flowers, with their numerous-coloured bracteoles ; un- 

 fortunately, its fruit was immature. The one large specimen 

 I received is evidently the upper portion of a large branch, and 

 is about 12in. long. 



Order XXVI. Deosekace^. 

 Genus 1. Drosera, Linn. 

 1. D. civcinervia, sp. nov. 



Eoot simple, slender, straight, l4in. long, broken('?). Leafy 

 stem slender, erect, simple. Sin. high, glabrous. Leaves 

 largely glandular-hairy on upper surface and at margins, their 

 glandular apices small, elliptic, red. Lower leaves at summit 

 of the stock 8, subrosulate spreading, suborbicular not peltate, 

 1-J- lines diameter, decurrent ; petioles 6-7 lines long, stoutish ; 

 stem-leaves 11, peltate, nearly equidistant throughout stem 

 sub fin. apart, lunate, truncate on the straight side, and there 

 3 lines broad, the 2 angles largely produced and bearing at 

 their tips 4-5 very long flexuous cilia : the curvilinear margin 

 much narrowly laciniate-fringed ; the two principal nerves 

 biorbicular from the insertion of the petiole ; petioles filiform 

 sub lin. long. Flowers (immature) small('?) at top of stem, in 



