334 supplementum florj; NOVJI-ZELANDLS. 



(Page 166.) Epacris purpurascens, Br v Prodr.p. 550. DC. Prodi: v. 7 '. p. 760. Bot. Mag. t. 84-4. 



This very handsome and ornamental shrub has been found in one spot only, at Papa-kuru, about eighteen 

 miles from Auckland, where it was seen both by Colonel Bolton and Dr. Sinclair. It is so difficult to conceive a 

 common New South Wales plant to be truly indigenous, and yet so anomalously scarce, that I hesitate to introduce 

 it into the Flora as a native ; if it really be so, it is the only exception to the fact of all the native shrubs occurring 

 in abundance wherever they are found, and being widely distributed. 



(Page 170.) Dracophyllum filifolium, Hook. fil. : add — 

 Hab. Middle Island : Upper Wairau Valley, Nelson, Monro. 



This fine genus wants a complete revision, and probably a reduction of the species. This cannot be effected 

 properly except in the islands, and should be undertaken with great care. I am quite ignorant of the amount of 

 variation in the different species. 

 (Page 172.) Suttonia. 



In the generic character read " Stamina 4-5," and in the English description " Corolla of four or five," etc. 

 (Page 173.) Suttonia divaricata, Hook. fil. j var. /3. montana. 



Better specimens of this plant, received from Mr. Colenso, assure me that this is a distinct species, which will 

 bear the name of S. montana, Hook. fil. 



(Page 178.) Gentiana montana, Porst., et G. saxosa, Porst. 



More numerous specimens of these plants increase the difficulty of distinguishing them, and give a still 

 greater idea of the excessive variability of each. Pages might be filled with descriptions of their forms, but to 

 little profit, as it appears to me. 



(Page 179.) Parsonsia. 



The remarks upon the Gentiana apply equally to this genus. I am far from convinced that there is more than 

 one species. Such genera cannot be well investigated without selected suites of specimens from the same indivi- 

 dual, and from different individuals in the same localities ; also a fair selection from all the localities the species 

 inhabits should be examined. 



(Page 182.) 



In the notes at the end of the genus Solanum the words " and the Tomato" should be inserted before " {Lyco- 

 persicon)." 



(Page 188.) Mimulus? radicans, Hook. fil. : add — 



Hab. Middle Island : Wakefield, Monro. 



(Page 189.) 



After Gratiola the genus fferpestes should possibly be inserted, as I find the IF. enneifolia, Spr., introduced 

 into M. Baoul's ' Choix de Plantes.' Some states of Gratiola sexdentata resemble a Herpestes very strongly. 



(Page 191.) Veronica. 



I have received many excellent specimens of various forms of this genus, from Colenso and Monro especially, 

 since the publication of the above, and I must confess that they do not tend to resolve the doubts I have as to the 

 validity or invalidity of many of the species of each section. I find no strong reason, however, for modifying ma- 

 terially the arrangement I have proposed. 



(Page 197.) Veronica Anagattis, L. 



It should have been mentioned, under this plant, that it is frequent in all northern temperate latitudes, and 

 throughout Great Britain. 



