182 Traitsaciions. 



this view the name to be adopted for our phiiit will be Sideroxt/hm novo- 

 zelandicum Henisl. 



XLVII. Oleaceae. 

 Olea montana Hook. f. 



Maungatauiwha Ranges and vicinity of Fairburn (Mangonui County) ; 

 H. Carse : the most northern locality yet recorded. Vicinity of Cape Brett 

 Lighthouse ; 7?. H. Skakespear / 



LI. BORAGINACEAE. 



Myosotis angustata Cheesem. 



Mount Lockett. north-west Nelson ; F. G. Gibbs ! Moraines in the 

 Hooker Valley. Mount Cook district ; altitude, 4,()()() ft. : T. F. C. 



LIV. SCROPHULARIACEAE. 



Calceolaria repens Hook. f. 



Makatote Gorge and other ravines on the volcanic plateau of the North 

 Island, along the course of the Main Trunk Railway ; T. F. C. 



Veronica gracillima Cheesem. 



Sea-clitt's a little to the north of Clisborne ; W. Townson I This is the 

 first record of the occurrence of this species in the North Island. 



Veronica rupicola Cheesem. 



HelFs Gates, near Kaikoura ; //. J. Matthews ! Most of the specimens 

 have simple racemes, thus departing from the typical state of the species, 

 in which the racemes are nearly always trichotomous. 



Ourisia sessilifolia Hook. f. 



An abundant plant on most of the mountains in the Mount Cook 

 district, forming large patches on the sides of moist sheltered hollows, 

 4,500-6,500 ft. altitude ; T. F. C. 



LVIII. Verbenaceae. 



Teucridium parvifolium Hook. f. 



On the outskirts of patches of swampy forest by the Thames River, 

 Te Aroha ; T. F. C. I mention this locality because drainage operations 

 and the destruction of the forest is fast destroying the plant. 



LXXII. LORANTHACEAE, 



Korthalsella salicornioides Van Tiegh. 



Although this stretches through almost the whole length of both the 

 North and South Islands, it is everywhere local and rarely occurs in any 

 great quantity. The following are the habitats known to me : — 



I. North Island : Vichiity of Kaitaia (Mangonui County) ; R. II. 

 Matthews/ Kerikeri Falls, Bay of Islands (the locality where it was first 

 discovered); R. Cunningham. W. Colenso I Hooker, and many others. Open 

 Leplospernium country between the Kerikeri River and Waitangi ; T. F. C. 

 Whangarei ; T. Kirk. Little Barrier Island ; Miss Shakespear ! T.F.C. 

 Judge's Bay, near Auckland ; and by the Manukau Harbour, in the vicinity 



