SUPPLEMENTTJM EL0RJ3 NOV.E-ZELANDLE. 331 



supposes to imply a doubt on my part. The expression is a bad one ; but I intended by it to say, that the petals 

 were neither exactly imbricate nor valvate, but intermediate in character ; the fact is that they appear much more 

 strongly imbricate in dried specimens than in living ones. 



(Page 100.) Loranthus Jlavidus, Hook. fil. 



Add to habitat — Middle Island ; Nelson, Kay's Valley, on Fagus Solandri, Monro. 



(Page 105.) Go]>rosmeLf(etidis,nma, Forst. 



Raoul refers Eorster's C, pusilla to A. Richard's C. repens, which latter I have doubtfully referred to C.fosti- 

 dissima. 



(Page 110.) Coprosma microcarpa, Hook. fil. 



This plant, which I have stated to be only a few inches high, attains, according to Mr. Colenso, eight to ten 



feet. 



(Page 112.) Nertera dichondrmfolia, Hook, fil 



This is the N. gracilis of Raoul (in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1844. p. 131), a plant which, as pointed out by himself in 

 the ' Choix de Plantes,' is identical with GeopMla dichondrcefolia, A. C, but which synonym I omitted to quote in 

 the body of this work. 



(Page 114.) Asperula perpusilla ; add— 



Hab. Middle Island : Upper Motucka, Monro. 



(Page 115.) Olearia. 



Olearia insignis, Hook. fil. ; ramulis petiolis foliis subtus pedunculis involucrisque dense albo-tomen- 

 tosis, foliis crassis oblongis supra nitidis integerrimis, petiolis basi vaginantibus, pedunculo terrninali soli- 

 tario elongato crasso, capitulo magno, involucri pluriseriati foliolis exterioribus majoribus oblongis obtusis 

 interioribus perplurimis linearibns aristato-acuminatis, pappi setis exterioribas brevibus insequalibus, inte- 

 rioribus eequilongis apice incrassatis, achenio sericeo. 



Hab. Middle Island : banks of Waihopai Eiver, Nelson, on dry, rocky ground, Monro. (Fl. Jan.) 

 A very fine species, and quite different from any hitherto described. I have only the termination of a branch, 

 with two leaves and a capitulum, and so cannot frame a character that will include varieties. — Young branches very 

 stout, and, as well as the petioles, under surface of leaves, peduncle, and involucre, covered with a dense compact 

 tomentum. Leaves very coriaceous, 5 inches long, g| broad, oblong, rounded at both ends, quite entire, glossy 

 above and pubescent along the midrib. Petiole robust, plane or channelled above, 1 inch long, dilated at the base. 

 Peduncle terminal, as long as the leaf (but probably variable), very stout, solitary, one-flowered. Capitulum broadly 

 campanulate, 1| inch broad ; scales very numerous, lower oblong, blunt ; upper small, acuminate, with hair-like, 

 somewhat recurved points. Florets white, those of the circumference in one row, with narrow ligulse. Inner hairs 

 of pappus few, long, club-shaped at the tip. Achenium silky, very long and narrow. 



(Page 121.) Celmisia coriacea, Hook. fil. 



I omitted to introduce under the synonyms — Aster coriaceus, Forst. Prodr. A. Rich. Flor. A. Ounn. Prodr. 

 etc. I originally referred both this plant and Aster Jiolosericeus to Celmisia in the ' Flora Antarctica,' vol. i. p. 36. 

 Dr. Monro sends specimens from the Rotuiti Lake and elsewhere, and remarks that it is called " Leather-plant" by 

 the colonists. 



(Page 123.) Celmisia incana, Hook. fil. : add — 



Hab. Gordon's Nob, and top of M'Crae's Eun, growing in dense tufts at 5000 feet elevation, Monro. 



(Page 123.) Add at the end of § b. of Celmisia — 



7. Celmisia laricifolia, Hook, fil.; parvula, caule ascendente subelongato folioso, foliis perplurimis 



