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parenthetically, that most likely neither Kirk nor Cheeseman had 

 access to Encllicher's Iconographia cited above, as neither refers to 

 it. But with complete specimens and drawings of the Norfolk 

 Island and New Zealand plants before me, I have no hesitation in 

 viewing them as distinct species. H. latifnlia, Endl., has relatively 

 slender branches ; thin entire leaves, much more finely reticulated 

 than Bauer's drawing represents them ; smaller flowers, and the 

 starainal appendages are only fringed at the tips instead of 

 minutely toothed all round the margin. 



Further investigation brought to light the fact that Allan 

 Cunningham's Scaeuola novae-zelandiae, reduced to Humen- 

 cmthera crassifolia, Hook. f. (FL Nov. Zel. 1852, vol. i., p. 17), is 

 the same plant. Cunningham, therefore, was the discoverer, and 

 he collected it at Mataun on the sea coast opposite the Cavallos 

 isles, m lZM. lhe name is now usually written Cavalli, and 

 these islands are situated to the north-west of the Bay of Islands. 

 Mataun does not occur in the gazeteers consulted. 



^Tu^fi { \ ma ?* e adde <*> kad only imperfect specimens, 



?vnP «ni? g be describes the fruit, none is preserved with the 

 type specimens at Kew. 



*vl C n™^ °^ l l ingha i n 1 , f name fop this interesting plant, the 

 synonymy would be as follows :— 



Hymenanthera uovae-zelandiae, Bemsl. 



vol ii., p. o2. 



Nat. m 



N 



^^ou^ra crassirona, Hook.f., FL 

 p. 17, quoad specimen Cunninghamianum. 



o/TSa^^Zf-^^' F »WU fetation 



r "J , "i c " aillUtirii lautoiia 

 Inst. 1871, vol. iii., p . 163. 



N, 



>/ New 



N, 



Rvmonontu i x-i- ,. ■* »" " y/ view jzeaiana, i5'J v j, p. 40. 



Endiicher. * ew Zealand Flora, 190(5, p. 50, non 



Isllnd h?vl Ci ^^3 m t nant ^ra collected in Lord Howe 



B. novae-zelandiae 



H. latifi 



s^iLnr^^ 



actly 



ation it became necessary 

 Mclicyt 



uiscovery that Hvmena«th» °,; UD ^.vuvyius, ana tnis lea to zne 

 /«m. Bo*. 1842 vT? J "Mongifolia, A. Cnnn. (HooA. Lond. 

 specimens collected bv tCt;i t> V s tne same as Norfolk Island 

 to Melicytus ramiflJrw v' r C i hoU8e > and others, and referred 



the same species is aL\!S i ' th T Ongh whether they are really 

 referred, in tC/mfar jg£2^ 4 * ohlongifolia. A. Cnnn., is 

 R- Br., but we have If S 818 ' t0 , the ver >' *»«** *• *«*^ 



not being taken up in BeSwJri ° n What a " thorit y< the name 



f uentham s i7 om 4 ws/ra/lVjm ^ 



