Labiate.) ` FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 205 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands, from the Bay of Islands to Banks’ Peninsula, Banks and So- 
lander, ete. Nat. name “ Ngaio,” Col. (Cultivated in England.) 
A small tree, 8-10 feet high, with bright-green rather succulent leaves, and pretty flowers, white spotted with 
red; everywhere quite glabrous. Leaves 3-5 inches long (on petioles 3-1 inch), elliptical lanceolate or obovate, 
acute or mucronate, thickly studded with round pellucid glands, more or less serrate above the middle, or quite 
entire; veins inconspicuous. Flowers about six in a tuft ; pedicels 3-3 inch long. Corolla upwards of 4 inch across 
the mouth; lobes broad, rounded, villous inside. 
Oss. Myoporum pubescens, Forst. Prodr., is quite unknown to me, and probably belongs to some other 
genus. 
NAT. Oz». LXIV. LABIATA, Juss. 
Gen. I. MENTHA, Z. 
Calyx 5-dentatus, striatus. Corolla limbo 5-fido ; lacinia superiore latiore, emarginata. Stamina 
distantia. Br. Prodr. 
The genus Mentha, to which the Peppermint, Spearmint, etc. belong, is widely diffused, especially in the 
temperate countries of the Northern Hemisphere, but is very sparingly represented in the Southern. A few species 
inhabit Australia, Tasmania, and one New Zealand, M. Cunninghamii: it is a fragrant, small, slender, diffuse, 
branching herb, with pubescent four-angled branches, opposite leaves, and axillary solitary flowers. eaves dotted 
below, petiolate or sessile, rounded or ovate, blunt, quite entire, $-$ inch long, including the petiole. Pedicels as 
long as the petiole, or longer. Flowers erect, 22 lines long.  Calyw campanulate, five-toothed, striated, hairy, 
villous on the teeth. Corolla bell-shaped, with a short tube and five unequal rounded lobes. Stamens included. 
Style exserted. (Name from puv6a, in Greek.) 
1. Mentha Cunninghami, Benth.; puberula, caule prostrato diffuso ramoso, foliis sessilibus petiolatisve 
late ovatis rotundatisve obtusis integerrimis subtus punctatis, floribus breve pedicellatis axillaribus solitariis, 
calyce hirsuto fauce villoso nudo dentibus villosis, antheris inclusis. Benth. in DC. Prodr. Micromeria 
Cunninghamii, Benth. Gen. et Sp. Lab. A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. Not uncommon on dry banks, Cunningham, Colenso, ete. 
Akaroa, Raoul. 
Gen. II. SCUTELLARIA, Z. 
Calyx bilabiatus, ebracteatus ; labiis integris, superiore intus fornicato, extus apice gibbo; fructus 
clausus. Corolla ringens, galea sub-3-dentata ; labii inferioris lacinia media emarginata. Br. Prodr. 
Herbs or small shrubs, natives of almost all parts of the world except South Africa; but very few species are 
found in Australia and Tasmania, including however the present 8, humilis, a very variable plant both in Australia 
and New Zealand, in the form of leaf and size of flower. A straggling, proeumbent, or erect slender herb, 4 inches 
to 13 feet long. Stems faintly downy. Leaves petiolate, in scattered pairs, 3-3 inch long, oblong or rounded, blunt, 
sometimes cordate, entire, distinctly toothed or lobed. Flowers white, + inch long, on solitary, axillary, one-flowered 
pedicels, as long or longer than the petiole. Calyz much enlarged and closing over the fruit, of two entire lips, 
without bracts, glabrous ; upper arched, with a scale or gibbosity above. Corolla two to three times longer than the 
calyx, downy, tubular, two-lipped; upper lip three-toothed, galeate ; lower three-lobed, the middle one notched. 
(Name from seutella, a little cup, which the scale on the calyx of some species resembles.) 
1. Scutellaria Aumilis, Br.; folis ovatis oblongis cordatisve integris lobatis grosse dentatisve subtus 
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