600 Transactions. — Botany. 



Hah. North and South Islands : Mangonui to Foveaux 

 Strait. Great Barrier Island. 



Var. elliptica = Trophis opaca, Banks and Sol., MSS. et Ic. 



Hab. North Island : Mangonui to Cook Strait. Taranga 

 Islands. Stephen Island. Chiefly in places near the sea. 



The Banksian plate exhibits the male and female spikes 

 mostly arranged in threes, springing from a terminal peduncle. 

 I have not seen a specimen exhibiting this peculiarity. 



It should have been mentioned that the male and female 

 inflorescence is frequently metamorphosed into small but much- 

 branched panicles, the branchlets of which are densely clothed 

 with minute imbricating scales, without any trace of the organs 

 of fertilisation. This diseased condition is most common in 

 the small-leaved forms. 



I have to express my indebtedness to the Bishop of 

 Waiapu, to Frank V. J. Williams, Esq., of Waipara, to A. 

 Williams, Esq., of Tuparoa, and other friends, for a copious 

 supply of specimens from various localities ; also to the 

 authorities of the British Museum for a precious fragment of 

 the original specimen in the Banksian collection. 



The absence of any form of this plant from the Chatham. 

 Islands and Stewart Island is remarkable. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES XLV. AND XLVI. 



Plate XLV. 



Paratrophis heterophylla, BI. 



1. Leaves of young state. 



2. Male flowers. 



3. Female flowers. 



4. Fruits. 



All natural size. 



Plate XLVI. 

 P. heterophylla, var. elliptica. 



1. Male flowers. 



2. Fruits. 



All natural size. 



