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on the branches, very rough at the edges, of a light-green 

 colour, and much resembling those of Pinus Pseudo-Strobus. 

 Sheaths persistent, about }j an inch in length, rather smooth and 

 entire. Seed-leaves on the young plants from seven to eight in 

 number. Branches numerous, spreading, rather irregular, 

 slightly incurved and slender. Bark rather rough. Buds large, 

 light-brown, much imbricated and destitute of resinous matter. 



Cones in clusters of four or five, pendulous, from 4 to 5 inches 

 long and 2l inches broad at the base, straight and tapering to a 

 point, with a footstalk nearly an inch in length, and from 12 

 to 16 rows of scales in each, which are much elevated, slightly 

 hooked, and nearly all of a size, but rather smaller towards the 

 extremities. They measure about ^ an inch across, and each 

 scale contains two very small seeds, with wings nearly an inch 

 in length. 



This Pine is very distinct from any previously known ; it 

 resembles the Pinus Pseudo-Strobus in habit and foliage, but 

 differs entirely in the cones, which much resemble, but are not 

 half the size of, those of Pinus macrophylla. 



No evidence has yet been obtained as to the hardiness of this 

 species. 



George Gordon. 



44. Clematis hexasepala. De CandolWs Prodromus, vol. i. 

 p. 5. A. Cunningham in Annals of Natural History, 

 vol. iv. p. 260. — (C. hexapetala, Forst. Prodr. n. 230.) 



New Zealand seeds were presented by J. R. Gowen, Esq., 

 in 1844. 



This is a little twining plant, with shining nearly smooth ter- 

 nate or biternate leaves, whose petioles twine round any small 

 body with which they may come in contact. The leaflets are 

 cordate-ovate, coarsely serrated, and often three-lobed. The 

 flowers are small, pale green, very sweet scented, and appear in 

 3s or 4s from the axils of the leaves. Their stalks are long and 

 hairy, and each has a pair of small bracts below the middle. 

 The sepals are very uniformly six in number, of a narrowly 

 oblong form, and spreading so as to form a small green star. 

 Contrary to the usual structure of the genus, the stamens are 

 constantly 6 only in number, and about half as long as the sepals. 



The late Mr. Allan Cunningham gathered it in the northern 

 island of New Zealand, but it was first found by Sir Joseph 

 Banks in 1769, and a drawing of it is said to be preserved in 

 the Banksian Library. 



It is a hardy greenhouse plant, requiring a light loamy soil 

 to grow in, and is easily increased by cuttings of the half ripened 



