330 



SUPPLEMENTED ELOR2E NOYiE-ZELANDLE. 



abundant, forming a barrier impenetrable to sheep and horses. It does not grow below 3000 feet elevation. The 

 var. a. angustifolia is smaller, and grows at lower levels. Dr. Monro alludes to another form as growing at a still 

 lower level, 1000 feet above the sea, and having a flowering stem 6-8 feet high. This latter is no doubt Forster's 

 original plant, and is certainly that described by myself as the same with the above. My own impression is, that 

 if there are two species, they will correspond to the varieties a and /3, viz. with broad and narrow leaflets. 



(Page 88.) After Acipliylla squamosa , insert — 



3. Acipliylla Monroi, Hook. fiL; foliis radicalibus basi vestigiis vetustis vaginaram dense obtectis 

 lanceolatis oblongo-lanceolatisve bipinnatis coriaceis, pinnis 6-8-jugis, pinnulis paucijugis lineari-lanceolatis 

 acuminatis pungentibus striatis, petiolo supra basin ad vaginam et ad basin pinnarum articulator articulo 

 ad basin petioli utrinque foliolo subulato aucto, caule superne subdivaricatim ramoso, ramis basi bractea 

 patente interdum pinnata lineari pungente suffultis, umbellis compositis, involucellis radiantibus radiis 

 exterioribus longioribus, floribus parvis, ? calycis dentibus 5 insequalibus, petalis obovato-oblongis acutis 

 incurvis costa crassa carinatis, staminibus incurvis, stylopodiis pulvinatis, stylis 0. 



Hab. Middle Island : summit of M'Crae's Run, alt. 4500 ped., Nelson, Monro. FL Dec. 



A very remarkable species, apparently quite distinct from A. squarrosa, but these Umbellifera are extremely 

 deceptive. A very similar plant, if not the same species, has been sent from Mount Buller, Victoria (Australia), by 

 Dr. Eerd. Miiller, as Anisotome glacialis, E. M., but this is in fruit only, and appears to differ from the New Zea- 

 land plant in the much larger size, short petioles, and different involucres on the inflorescence. Dr. Monro's speci- 

 mens are in flower only. — Stem very stout at the base, densely covered with dry withered remains of old foliage. 

 Leaves 3-7 inches long, oblong, bipinnate ; pinnules 1-1$ inch long, fiat, very coriaceous, linear or linear-lanceolate,, 

 acuminate, pungent, with cartilaginous margins. Flowering stem 6 inches high. Umbels on alternate short branches 

 of the stem, each subtended by a linear involucral leaf 1-2 inches long, which is the semiamplexicaul sheath of a 

 leaf that sometimes bears a few pinnules. Flowers small, in small dense-flowered compound umbels, the latter sub- 

 tended by radiating subulate partial involucres. 



(Page 88.) Anisotome, Iloo/c.Jil. 



Dr. Monro sends a solitary specimen of a small species of this genus, not in flower, from the mountains around 

 Nelson, which appears very different from any described. The specimen, probably a seedling plant, is only five inches 

 high. Two leaves are present, with broadly reniform, rotundate, or orbicular laminas, ternately decompound into 

 subulate segments. It is apparently allied to the Auckland Island A. antipoda, Hook. fiL, and belongs to the sec- 

 tion with compound radical leaves. 



(Page 90.) Eustylis. 



The name Eustylis has, I am informed by Dr. Asa Gray, been preoccupied by a genus of Iridece ; and that 

 of Anisotome is almost rendered invalid by that of Anisotoma, Eenzl. (in Linnaea, 1843, vol. Xvii. p. 330), a genus 

 of Asclepiadece. As, however, all will probably merge into Acipliylla, Forster, the present nomenclature may stand 

 provisionally. 



(Page 93.) Panax simplex, Forst. 



The leaves, which I have described as coarsely serrate, are sometimes only lobed along the margin, or almost 

 entire. Asa Gray mentions the young leaves as occasionally opposite. 



This plant, together with P. arboreum, Gray suggests may be referable to Iledera, to which genus he refers 

 Aralia crassifolia, A. Lessoni, and perhaps others of the New Zealand Araliacem. The Natural Order is, I am happy 

 to find, about to undergo a complete revision by MM. Decaisne and Planehon. 



(Page 95.) Aralia polaris. 



Asa Gray establishes the genus Stilbocarpa (which I have suggested, p. 95) for this plant, founding it on the 

 imbricate petals and the acetabuliform fruit. I have stated that the petals " seem hardly valvate," which Asa Gray 



