Gunnera. | HALORAGER, 157 
size, unisexual; males usually longer than the leaves, stout, 14—3 in. 
long. Flowers sessile or nearly so, with 1—2 linear cucullate bracts. 
Anthers 2, sessile, broadly oblong. Female peduncles in the flower- 
ing stage short and hidden among the leaves. Flowers densely 
crowded, forming a short oblong spike. Calyx-lobes 2-3, minute. 
Styles long, stout, subulate. Fruiting peduncles either remaining 
short and concealed by the leaves, or greatly elongated and exceed- 
ing them, 14-3 in. long, in that case becoming stout succulent and 
coloured. Drupes 4-1 in. long, fleshy, yellowish-red, clavate and pen- 
dulous or obovoid and suberect.—Kirk, Students’ Fl.154. G. densi- 
flora, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 346 (not of Hook. f.). 
Norrs Isuanp: Sand-dunes on the western coast, from Cape Maria van 
Diemen to Port Waikato, 7. F. C., Petrie! R. H. Matthews! H. Carse! 
Sourn Isnanp: Nelson—Cape Farewell, Kirk! Canterbury—New Brighton, 
Cockayne ; Seventy-mile Beach, Buchanan! Southland—Sandy Point, 17’. 
Waugh ! 
Allied to G. dentata, but easily separated by the stouter and more glabrous 
habit, broader rounder and more fleshy obtuse leaves, stouter peduncles, and 
larger fruit. 
8. G. Hamiltoni, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 
347.—A stout coriaceous much-branched plant forming broad 
matted patches; rhizomes as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves 
numerous, tufted, forming broad flat rosettes 2-4 in. diam., coria- 
ceous; petioles broad and flat, almost winged, sheathing at the 
base, glabrous or slightly villous; blade 4-lin. long, ovate or 
ovate-deltoid, cuneate at the base, acute, closely and minutely 
toothed, glabrous; veins prominent below. Spikes unisexual; 
males stout; flowers lax, sessile. Female spikes at first hidden 
among the leaves; flowers crowded; bracts broadly ovate, laciniate. 
Fruiting spikes 2-4 in. long; drupes fleshy, clavate, red.—Students’ 
Fil, 155. 
SourH Isnanp: Hills near the mouth of the Oreti River, Southland, 
W. S. Hamilton! Stewart Istanp: Mason Bay, W. Traill. 
A very remarkable plant, quite unlike any other, although undoubtedly 
allied to G. arenaria. I have only seen very fragmentary flowering specimens. 
4. CALLITRICHE, Linn. 
Perfectly glabrous slender herbs, usually growing in wet places, 
often aquatic. Leaves opposite, linear or obovate-spathulate, quite 
entire, the upper ones often crowded or rosulate. Flowers mone- 
cious, minute, axillary, solitary or rarely a male and female in the 
Same axil, without perianth. Male flowers of a single stamen sub- 
tended by two minute bracts; filaments slender, elongated ; anther 
2-celled, cells confluent above. Female flowers with or without 
the 2 bracts. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, 4-celled; ovules 
solitary in each cell; styles 2, elongated, stigmatic throughout their 
length. Fruit flattened, indehiscent, 4-lobed and 4-celled, ulti- 
mately separating into 4 1-seeded carpels. 
