Petrie. — Oil the Flowering -plants of Otago. 421 



(alsorachis to tip), brownish below, pale-straw colour above, 

 hairy ; hairs red-brown, shining, copious, short (also on rachis 

 and subrachises, and midrib below), lin. long, and straight 

 at base. Frond broadly ovate-lanceolate, 22in.-23in. long, 

 13in. broad at middle, tip acuminate, bipinnate, sub- 

 coriaceous, slightly harsh, glabrous, dull-darkish-green above, 

 paler below. Pinnae oblong - acuminate, broadest at base, 

 gradually decreasing to tip, 6in.-6iin. long, lin.-l^in. broad, 

 alternate, distant, petiolate, horizontal, spreading ; tips 

 narrow, much acuminate ; the ultimate lobes long, serrate, 

 acute; lowest pinnae deflexed. Pinnules sublinear - oblong, 

 acute, fin. long, ^in. wide, 20-23-jugate, alternate, petio- 

 late, rather distant, falcate, deeply (6-7) lobed or subpinna- 

 tifid ; lobes nearly as broad as long, somewhat square, each 

 lobe coarsely and sharply serrate, with 4-6 teeth, slightly 

 recurved ; midrib stout prominent, whitish above, wavy, free. 

 Veins numerous, pinnate in each lobe, free, reaching to 

 margin. 



Hab. Dense forests south-west from Dannevirke ; 1896 : 

 W. C. 



Obs. It is wholly against my practice and mind to de- 

 scribe a barren and unknown fern ; but this is a very striking 

 and peculiar one. Unfortunately I have not yet succeeded 

 in obtaining it in fruit, but hope to do so on my next visit 

 to these woods this summer. In general appearance it re- 

 sembles no New Zealand fern known to me, therefore I 

 cannot venture to place it under any of our known genera. 

 It may, however, prove to be a species of Pohjstichum (in- 

 cluding Lastrea), or a Dicksonia, though unlike our known 

 species of those genera. 



Art. XXXV. — Supplement to List of Floivering -plants in- 

 digenous to Otago. 



By D. Petrie, M.A., F.L.S. 



[Read before the Auckland Institute, 3rd August, 1896.] 



Through the kindness of various correspondents my attention 

 has been drawn to a number of accidental omissions from the 

 list of flowering-plants indigenous to Otago which was pub- 

 lished in vol. xxviii. of the " Transactions of the New Zealand 

 Institute." I now submit a list of the species omitted, to- 

 gether with corrections of two errors in the identification of 

 species : — 



