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inflorescence, If inch long, i inch broad, linear, straight (rarely curved), with short apices, short styles, and small 

 blunt stigmas. Valves plane, with a distinct medial nerve ; replum hyaline, with an obscure medial nerve. Seeds 

 narrow pyriform, with elongated apices, attached by long, slender, free cords ; testa reticulate. 

 (Page 15.) After Lepidium incisum, Hook. fil., add — 



Gen. V. THLASPI, L. 



Pods as in Lepidium,, but many-seeded. Seeds with accumbent cotyledons. 



1. Thlaspi? australe, Hook. fil. ; humilis, glaberrima v. pilis brevibus albiclis conspersis, foliosa, caule 

 simplici v. radice multicipiti, foliis radicalibus elongato-spathulatis lanceolatis ovatisve integerrimis v. crenatis 

 crassis caulinis angustioribus, floribus majusculis dense subcorymboso-capitatis pedicellis crassis, sepalis basi 

 aequalibus oblongis obtusis petalis spathulatis dirnidio brevioribus, filamentis filiformibus, antheris lineari- 

 oblongis, ovario obovato v. subobcordato, stylo crasso, stigmate capitato, silicula obcordata, valvis profunde 

 cymbiformibus dorso late alatis, septo angusto, ovulis perplurimis funiculis liberis capillaribus, seminibus 

 (immaturis) rotundatis. 



Hab. Middle Island : Gordon's Nob ; mountains behind Nelson and Upper "Wairau, on talcose 

 gravel, alt. 4000 ped., Monro. (Fl. Dec. Jan.) 



A small, apparently fleshy herbaceous annual ?, 1-4 inches high, of which I have no ripe fruit ; it is extremely 

 variable in habit, but cannot be confounded with any other known plant of the Order. — Root a very long, slender, 

 simple or branched tap, bearing one or more stems that are simple or branched at the base. Leaves, stems, pedicels, 

 and sepals perfectly glabrous, or with a few scattered, soft, white, short hairs. Radical leaves few, or many and 

 rosulate, |—1 inch long, petiole broad, fiat, gradually dilating into a lanceolate, oblong, or broadly ovate, blunt, 

 entire, or crenate lamina ; cauline few or many, broad or narrow. Flowers white, collected into a many-flowered, 

 dense corymb, which is sometimes effuse from the flower-stalks being -J—J inch long. Sepals erect, equal at the 

 base. Petals white, spathulate, \-\ inch long. Pods broadly obovate or obcordate, flattened, -| inch long with the 

 stout straight style. Valves boat-shaped, laterally compressed, with a broad flat nerved wing. Replum very narrow, 

 hyaline, nerveless. Seeds small, rounded and kidney- shaped, attached by slender free cords. — I much regret that 

 the seeds of this curious little plant are so immature that I cannot determine the position of the radicle, and hence 

 ascertain the genus, which I have considered provisionally to be Thlaspi. 



(Page 16.) Viola Cunning Jiamii, Hook, fil., ascends to an elevation of 4000 feet on the mountains 

 of the Middle Island, Monro. 



(Page 22.) Pittosporum crenulatwm, Putterlich, Syn. Pittosp. ex Walp. Rep. v. l.p. 253. 



This is a plant mentioned by Putterlich as a native of New Zealand ; it appears to agree in general characters 

 with P. pimeleoides, but I never saw that plant (or any other species) to have the minutely crenulated leaves attri- 

 buted to P. crenulatum by the above-named author. 



5. Pittosporum eugenioides, A. Cunn. 



Putterlich, I.e., quotes this species as a synonym of P. umbellatum, Banks et Sol. (see Asa Gray, Bot. U. S. 



■C'Xpl. Exped. p. 233), doubtless through some accidental error or transposition of tickets ; for his description of 



"• microcarpum, Putt., quite agrees with P. eugenioides, A. Cunn., and he quotes P. umbellatum, A. Cunn. (non B. 



et o.) as a synonym of it (microcarpum) . I have a specimen of P. eugenioides from E. Cunningham, ticketed 



J- omaderris microcarpa," which possibly suggested the specific name. 



(Page 25.) Before Stettaria insert, under Caeyophylle/E — 



GYPSOPHILA. 



1- Gypsophila twbulosa, Boiss. ; parvula, annua?, hispidulo-pilosa et glandulosa v. glabrata, caulibus 

 vol. ii. 4 



