66 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
R.N., during the pine ea voyage of H.M.S. ‘ Adventure’ and ‘ Bea 
These were contained in his own herbarium, which he gave me for Plies 
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the Straits of Magalhaens, under Captain Mayne, R.N., in 1867, I Uirested 
the attention of my friend Dr. Cunningham, naturalist to the voyage, to this 
OF as affinities of this genus :T am stil very — With Diapensia 
(a genus Abra’ I have aaelan referred to the immediate neighbourhood 
of saree he n Ericee) it has nothing sige o do. Except in the 
hypogynous stamens, it accords fairly with poiteseton Asa Gray, Ww 
ps deveatt an the plant in the Kew Herbarium, suggested Pitfosporee, 
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base of the flower, and absence of torus. The fact that the “Order Pittosporee 
is otherwise confined to the Old World is of less value, when it is consi- 
dered how much there is in —— between Fuegia and New Zealand, the 
head-quarters of Pitlo 
se & eculiar be tet taste of the stems of Chalepoa is a curious cha- 
wishin: as ae the persistence of the seeds, which remain attached to the top 
of the placentiferous axis in a little shining heap, long after the fall of 
the valves. Dr. Cunningham’s enone gathere ed in December in full 
flower, Sem net cases of this.—J. 
Fig. 1 and 3. Flowers. 4. Stamen. 5. Pistil. 6. Young fruit. 7. Longi- 
tudinal ane (8) Gaswae section of ditto. 9. Unripe seed :—all magnified 
Prate 1083. 
FUCHSIA KIRKII, Hook. /. 
ONAGRARIER, 
FP. Kirkii, Hook. f.; procumbens, caule gracillimo elongato prostrato 
ramoso, foliis eae ionge petiolatis orbiculari- eer obseure dentatis, 
floribus axillaribus solitariis, ovario obovoideo, calycis tubo late campanulato 
bis reflexis bisa obtusis, petalis 0, Raisautin ene , stylo brevi, 
te parvo capitellato incluso. 
: isn Hew Gistaed: On ‘the beach of ¢ on a 
December, 1867. beach of Great Barrier Island, 7. Kirk, 
