80 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [Savifragee. 
lanceolatis lateralibus oblongis omnibus acutis acuminatisve grosse serratis, glandulis hypogynis erectis 
linearibus obtusis, seminibus laxe pilosis. Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Var. a; folis ternatis imparipinnatisve, foliolis coriaceis glabris, pedunculis petiolis ramulisque 
pubescentibus. W. sylvicola, 4. Cunn. Prodr. 
Var. B. fuchsioides; folis simplicibus ternatisve majoribus, ovario capsulaque pilosis. W. fuchsioides, 
A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Var. y. betulina; folis ternatis imparipinnatisque minoribus, foliolis valde coriaceis obovatis basi 
angustatis. W. betulina, A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Haz. Common in woods, throughout the three Islands, Banks and Solander, etc. Fl. August to 
November. (Cultivated in England.) 
A small tree, 20-30 feet high, with blackish bark. Branches, petioles, costa of leaf below, and peduncles 
pubescent. Leaves opposite, simple, ternate, or imparipinnate, often on the same specimen. Leaflets very variable 
in size, 1-2 inches long, obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, coarsely serrate, coriaceous ; 
when pinnate the lateral leaflets are oblique. Stipules deciduous, large in young plants, leafy, obovate, blunt, placed 
between the petioles. Racemes as long as the leaves, erect; pedicels 2—3 lines long. Flowers numerous, white, 
variable in size, 2 lines broad. Capsules 2-3 lines long. Seeds few, very minute, with a tuft of woolly hairs at each 
end.—An exceedingly variable plant, of which Cunningham has made three species; these, however, present no 
constant characters. 
2. Weinmannia racemosa, Forst.; ramulis glabris, foliis simplicibus ternatisve coriaceis ovato- v. ellip- 
tico-oblongis acutis grosse sinuato-serratis, costa glaberrima, racemis glabris, capsulis glaberrimis. Forst. 
Prodr. DC. Prodr. v. 4. p.9. W. spatiosa, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. Leiospermum, Don. A. Cunn. 
Prodr. An prioris forma? 
Has. Abundant throughout the Islands, Banks and Solander, Forster, etc. Nat. names, “ Tawai,” 
Cunn.; “Tawhero,” Southern Island, Lyall. 
I am quite unable to distinguish this generically from 7. sylvicola, as Y find the ripe seeds (on the supposed 
smoothness of which Don founded the genus Zeiospermum) to be invariably hairy, precisely as in Weinmannia, though 
in both immature (abortive?) smooth seeds may be found. The present has larger, broader, more coriaceous leaves, 
smooth peduncles, petioles, and costa of the leaf, often larger flowers, longer pedicels and styles, and larger narrower 
capsules ; but none of these are constant characters ; they do not accompany one another on the same specimens; and, 
in short, this species appears to run into the former in every possible way. The leaves are sometimes 33 inches 
long and rounded, and the racemes 5 inches. 
Nat. Og». XXXVI. SAXIFRAGEA, Juss. 
Gen. I. DONATIA, Forst. 
Calycis tubus turbinatus, ovario adnatus; limbi lobis 3-7, regulariter v. irregulariter insertis. Petala 
5-10, calyce inserta. Stamina 2-8, basi cum stylis coalita v. libera, disco epigyno imposita; antheris ex- 
trorsis. Ovarium conicum, 9-3-loculare; ovulis paucis, e summo anguli interioris loculi suspensis, ascen- 
dentibus; stylis 2-8, liberis v. basi coalitis. Capsula coriaceo-carnosa, 2-8-locularis, polysperma. 
The New Zealand Donatia is one of the most interesting recent discoveries in those Islands, for the genus, of 
which only one species was previously known, was supposed to be confined to Antarctic America. Both 
species are small, moss-like, densely tufted, alpine plants, forming hard masses on the ground, of a bright green 
colour, and often contributing to the formation of peat. Leaves fleshy, linear, alternate, densely crowded; the 
