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much shorter than the tube, which answers to his description of P. albiflora (heterophylla, A. Cunn.) ; the specimen 
also which I received with the fine New Zealand herbarium he was so good as to give me, though labelled P. rosea, 
is clearly his P. albiflora. I do not find that difference between the length of the appendices of the anthers in these 
two species (rosea and capsularis) that M. Raoul mentions. 
3. Parsonsia heterophylla, A. Cunn.; caule robusto, ramulis puberulis, foliis ovatis ovato-lanceolatis 
elliptico-lanceolatis v. lineari-elongatis acutis, racemis axillaribus terminalibusque multifloris pubescentibus 
folio longioribus, calycis lobis brevibus corolle tubo elongato multoties brevioribus, corolle lobis brevius- 
culis, staminibus inclusis, antheris breviter bicaudatis. 4. Cunn. Prodr. Hort. Soc. Journ. v. 5. P- 195. 
cum lc. P. albiflora, Raoul, Chois de Plantes, p. 17. Periploca capsularis, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. Abundant from the Bay of Islands southward, Banks and So- 
lander, ete. Otago, Lyall. Nat. name, “Kai Ku,” Colenso. (Cultivated in England.) 
A very much stouter plant than either of the former, with large, ovate, lanceolate, or elliptical, generally broad, 
coriaceous leaves, 2-3 inches long and 14 broad, but often very narrow. acemes large, numerous, many-flowered, 
downy. Flowers more than + inch long, very odoriferous. Calyx lobes very short. Corolla with a long tube and 
revolute segments. Anthers included, with short aristee at the bases of the lobes. Fruit 3-4 inches long, terete, 
with two grooves, sharp.—Why M. Raoul changed Cunningham’s name of heterophylla for this plant to albiflora, 
does not appear. If it be because the other species are equally heterophyllous, the same argument should hold 
good for changing Forster’s name (retained by M. Raoul), for the original species of capsularis, all the species 
having capsular fruit. The latter name Mr. Cunningham should have retained for his P. heterophylla, since he be- 
lieved that it was the same with Forster's Periploca capsularis, and it agreed with Forster’s authentically named 
specimen in Herb. Brit. Mus., though not with his description in the Prodromus, nor with the equally authentically 
named specimen in the Paris Mus. Under these circumstances I have thought it best to retain Forster’s name of 
P. capsularis for that he originally discovered, described and so named in the Paris Mus., Cunningham’s name of 
P. heterophylla for his plant, and M. Raoul’s for the P. rosea, though neither the authentically named specimen he 
gave me nor his drawing agree with his descriptions. Those who deal with large herbaria, containing critical 
species, know how inevitable such errors are. 
4. Parsonsia variabilis, Lindl. ; “caule volubili pubescente, foliis nitidis acutissimis nunc linearibus 
angustissimis basi rotundatis subundulatis, nunc ovalibus utringue acutissimis, nunc obovatis, nunc lineari- 
bus apice dilatatis circularibus, paniculis brevibus raris secundis subfoliosis, sepalis corolla 3-plo breviori- 
bus, corolla campanulata (nec urceolata ut in P. 2eterophylla), limbo revoluto tubo 4-plo breviore, antheris 
ecaudatis.” Lindl. in Hort. Soc. Journ. v. 5. p. 196. 
Has. New Zealand. (Cultivated in England.) 
Very much like P. heterophyila, but the leaves are shining and more variable in form, the linear ones being far 
narrower, and often expanding into a circular blade. The flowers are not more than half the size, and instead of 
being contracted at the mouth and urceolate, are exactly campanulate ; they are also far less hairy, by no means so 
numerous or densely arranged, and usually intermingled with long narrow leaves. 
Nat. On». LVII. SOLANEA, Juss. 
Gen. I. SOLANUM, Z. 
Calyx 4-5-fidus. Corolla rotata v. campanulata, plicata, 4—5-fida. Anthere 5, conniventes, apice 
poro gemino dehiscentes. Bacca globosa v. oblonga, 9-locularis. Semina plurima ; embryone valde 
curvato. 
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