328 SUPPLEMENTUM EL0EJ3 NOViE-ZELANDLE. 



Expl. Exp. p. 501) approves of the union of the species quoted under it as synonyms, and adds, that consistently 

 with this view, the name 67. strictum, Ait., should be preferred ; in which I agree. 



As regards G.pamflorum, Comm., I am still in difficulty. Dr. Monro has sent me specimens in flower of 

 what is clearly my Sieversia (Geum ?) albiflora of Auckland Island, though it has orbicular petals and villous car- 

 pels with uncinate apices. This appears in most respects absolutely identical, except in the rather larger flower, 

 with a plant from the Patagonian Andes (collected by W. Lobb), which is in flower, and has also the young fruit of 

 a Geum, but which appears to have yellow flowers. Mr. Colenso's specimens from the Northern Island are more 

 villous and more densely leafy, but otherwise identical with Dr. Monro's, and are apparently white-flowered ; but 

 neither are these in fruit. Lastly, I have a much larger plant in ripe fruit from Dr. Lyall (collected in Milford 

 Sound, and alluded to under G. Magellanicum), which may be a large state of this ; and if so, it presents good cha- 

 racters in the achamia, which are strict, narrow, linear-lanceolate, villous, with long soft hairs, and are gradually 

 narrowed into a slender, strict, subulate style, with a short hook at its apex. Should Dr. Lyall's, my Auckland 

 Island plant, Dr. Monro's, and Mr. Colenso's, prove one and the same, and different from the South American 

 species, the name Geum albijlorum is most applicable. 



(Page 58.) After Epilobium macroptts insert — 



3 bis. Epilobium brevipes, Hook, fil.; glaberrimum, crassiusculum, caule procumbente lignoso tereti, 

 ramis breviusculis ascendentibus confertirn foliosis teretibus cortice rubro v. atro, foliis (|-| unc.) omnibus 

 oppositis patentibus oblongo-lanceolatis v. lineari-oblongis subobtusis obscure denticulatis marginatis eras- 

 sis aveniis utrinque concoloribus v. subtus petiolisque elongatis subroseis, pedunculis brevibus axillaribus 

 capsulisque foliis subduplo longioribus gracilibus glaberrimis, sepalis petalis paullo brevioribus linearibus 

 acutis, petalis pallidis bifidis, stylo gracili clavato. 



Hab. Middle Island : Kaikora Mountains, south of Nelson; alt. about 2-4000 feet, Macdonald. 



An exceedingly handsome plant of its size, allied to E. macropus, but very much more robust, with nearly en- 

 tire crowded leaves, longer petioles, very short peduncles, and smaller flowers. Everywhere perfectly glabrous and 

 polished. — Stems straggling, woody, as thick as a crow-quill; bark black. Branches 4 inches long, also black, or 

 fine red-purple, ascending, rather crowded. Leaves crowded, all opposite, spreading, linear or oblong-lanceolate, 

 rather blunt, or narrowed into a slender red petiole, nerveless, upper surface green, under the same colour, or 

 reddish. Flowers few, in the upper axils ; peduncles short. Ovaries and ripe capsules slender, curved, 1\ inch 

 long. Mowers pale. Sepals red, narrow. Petals about -i— \ inch long, bifid for one-fourth the way down. Stigma 

 clavate. — I have four good specimens of this : had I forty, I should probably have to modify the above characters. 

 The student must allow for considerable variations. 



3 ter. Epilobium crassum, Hook. fil. ; glaberrimum, crassum, coriaceum, depressum, caule robusto 

 repente brevissimo dense fojioso, foliis (1 unc. longis) confertis subcarnosis suberectis oppositis ovato- v. spa- 

 thulato-oblongis obtusis marginatis subintegerrimis aveniis costa obscura in petiolum brevem crassum an- 

 gustatis, floribus paucis, ovariis (immaturis) crassiusculis breve v. longius pedunculatis, floribus majusculis, 

 petalis purpureis, sepalis lineari-ovatis \ longioribus. 



Hab. Middle Island : top of M'Crae's Bun, 4000 feet, Nelson, Monro. (Fl. Dec.) 



A very singular species, allied to the preceding. I have only four good specimens, and consequently allowance 

 must be made for deviations from the descriptions. No species is comparable with this for the short, stout, fleshy 

 habit, its dense foliage, which is large for its size, and also rather large flowers. — Everywhere quite glabrous. Stems 

 2-4 inches long, nearly as thick as a goose-quill, creeping, sending down thick fleshy fibres. Leaves opposite, 

 densely crowded, about an inch long, fleshy, nerveless, almost quite entire, or remotely obscurely denticulate, spa- 

 thulate, blunt, with a thick margin, green, more or less suffused with red-purple, especially below. Peduncles axil- 

 lary, few, stout, short or long, old ones apparently elongated. Ovaries about twice as long as the upper leaves, ro- 



