SUPPLEMENTUM ELOR^ NOYiE-ZELANDLE. 



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bust, quite glabrous. Mowers fully \ inch long; sepals narrow, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute, one-third shorter 

 than the rosy petals, which are bifid one-third down. Stigma clavate. 



Epilobium confertum, A. Cunn., Prodr., and 



Epilobium haloragifolium, A. C, 1. c, 



Are both omitted in this work. I believe the former to be E. junceum, and the latter E. alsinoides, but I found 

 it impossible in all cases to identify the tips of branches, upon which Cunningham had sometimes founded his spe- 

 cies of this most difficult and protean genus. I have examined large suites of New Zealand specimens since the 

 publication of this Flora, and find the arrangement and limitation of the species I have proposed to hold good. 



(Page 63.) Haloragis tenella, Brong. 



Asa Gray (Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped. p. 626) refers this to H. micrantka, Gray [Gonioearpus micranthus, Thunb.), 

 a native of Japan ; he also notices that it is the Haloragis tenella of Brongniart (not Gonioearpus, as I have mis- 

 quoted it), and further, that it is not the G. tenellvs, DC. Dr. Monro lias sent specimens from Nelson. 



(Page 71.) After Myrtus buttata, insert — 



1. Myrtus Ralphii, Hook. fil. ; arbuscula, ramis ramulis petiolis peduneulisque puberulis, foliis late 

 elhpticis obtusis acutisve planis glaberrimis v. secus costarn puberulis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis 1-floris 

 folio brevioribus, floribus tetrameris, bacca globosa. 



Hab. Northern Island : woods at Wellington, Ralph. Forests near the East Coast, Colenso. 

 Very nearly allied to M. buttata, but with narrower, less coriaceous, flat leaves, and smaller flowers ; the pe- 

 duncles are one-flowered, but frequently have two small scars beneath the flower. 



(Page 72.) Sicyos angulatus, L. 



Gray (Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped.) remarks, that the male flower and fruit of 8. auslralis are only half the size of 

 those of S. angulatus ; but in all my New Zealand specimens the male flowers and fruit are quite as large as in any 

 American ones of S. angulatus, and larger than in many. I therefore still believe these species {angulatus and aus- 

 tralis) to be the same. 



(Page 74.) Mniamm fasciculatum, Br., Prodr. Raoul, p. 43. 

 Hab. New Zealand, Raoul. 



This, which is a Tasmanian plant, appears to have been found at Akaroa, in the Middle Island, by M. Raoul ; 

 it is very closely allied to 11. biflorus (Scleranthis, mihi), and should, with it, be referred to Scleranthus. It is dis- 

 tinguished by the pubescent branohlcts, leaves toothed along the whole margin, and short fruiting peduncles, 



(Page 77.) Tetragonia, L. 



There are probably two species of this genus in New Zealand, but I cannot satisfactorily define them from dried 

 specimens ; one seems to be considerably larger than the other. Possibly the smaller one is the Tetragonella im- 

 plexicoma, Miquel, of the Australian coasts, a genus that does not appear to differ sufficiently from Tetragonia; and 

 the larger, the true T. expansa, Sol., De Candolle, (Plantes Grasses, t. 114; Endl. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Norf. ; T. 

 oleracea, Forst. Prodr.) 



(Page 79.) Ackama roscefolia. 



Gray (Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped. p. 671) gives a detailed accurate description of this plant, pointing out that I 

 have described imperfect seeds, and referring the genus to a section of Weinmannia. The same able botanist appears 

 to doubt my correctness in describing the calyx as valvate, which, however, it most decidedly is. 



(Page 88.) Aciphylla squarrosa, Forst. 



Dr. Monro sends the varieties a and 8 as states of one species, remarking that that which I described as var. 8, 

 latifolia, is the "Spear Grass" and "Wild Spaniard" of settlers, and that at Fairfield Downs it is extremely 

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