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triangular, acute. Petals rather longer than the calyx lobes, 

 usually wanting in the female flowers. Stamens 8 ; styles 

 and ovules 4. Fruit broad at the base, where it is furnished 

 with four short horns or wings, narrowed upwards, conspicu- 

 ously rugose between the wings. 



Hab. Cliffs near the North Cape ; not uncommon. 



I advance this species with considerable hesitation, on ac- 

 count of its close general relationship to the common and 

 variable H. alata. Its differential characters are its smaller 

 size and stouter habit, the shorter and broader leaves, which 

 are highly cartilaginous, and the much more wrinkled and 

 rugose fruit. 



Coprosma kirkii^ n. sp. 



A procumbent or prostrate shrub, forming large rounded 

 masses 1ft. -ift. high and several feet in diameter. Branches 

 numerous, rather stout, often interlaced, younger ones covered 

 with a short and soft greyish-white pubescence. Leaves in 

 opposite pairs, or more usually in opposite fascicles, iin.-fin. 

 long, linear, narrow linear-oblong or narrow linear-obovate, 

 obtuse or subacute, coriaceous, gradually narrowed into a 

 short petiole, flat, midrib usually evident below, lateral veins 

 indistinct. Stipules very short, broad, margins ciliate. 

 Flowers on short lateral branchlets. Males not seen. Fe- 

 males in 3-6-flowered fascicles. Calyx lobes 4, minute, equal. 

 Corolla narrow campanulate, 4-fid. Immature drupes oblong. 



Hab. North Cape peninsula ; Tapotopoto Bay : T. Kirk ! 

 Near Whangakea, and coast between Tom Bowline's Bay and 

 Hooper's Point : T.F.C. Near Ahipara : T.F.C. 



A distinct species, of which my material is unfortunately 

 somewhat imperfect, the male flowers and ripe fruit being un- 

 known. It is allied to G. cunninghamii and C. projmiqica, but 

 differs from both in the smaller size, prostrate habit, pubescent 

 branches, and in the fascicled leaves. From G. linariifolia it 

 is at once removed by the absence of the long sheathing 

 stipules which are so conspicuous in that species, and by the 

 much smaller fascicled female flowers. It was originally dis- 

 covered by Mr. T. Kirk, and I have much pleasure in as- 

 sociating his name with it. 



Cassinia amoena, n. sp. 



A small round-topped densely-branched shrub, lft.-2ft. in 

 height, with much of the habit of an alpine Veronica or 

 Pimelea. Branches stout, furrowed, younger ones covered 

 with greyish-white tomentum. Leaves close-set, spreading, 

 •Jin.-fm. long, hnear-spathulate, narrow linear-obovate or 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, gradually narrowed into a short petiole, 

 margins recurved, glabrous above, covered with dense white 



