Colensoane. N. QO. Scrophularine. 
TAB. DLXVII. 
Mazvs pumttio. Br. (?) 
Corolle labio superiore profunde bifido, scapis 1-4-floris calyci- 
busque glabris. Br, 
Mazus pumilio. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 439. Endl. 
Iconogr. Gen. Pl. t. 102. 
Ourisia sp. Hook. supra, TAB. DxLv.-DxLv1. (note.) 
Has. Tasmania. R. Brown, Esq. At the foot of dry, clayey 
cliffs, near Matapouri, on the east coast of the northern 
island of N. Zealand, Dec. 1837, and again in March, 1841. 
Mr. Colenso (n. 71). : : 
This pretty little plant did not escape the notice of Mr. 
Colenso, who found it in no other localities save those above- 
mentioned, and recognised it as something quite new to New 
Zealand. I had no means, from the paucity of specimens, 
of examining minutely into the structure of the flower, 
without destruction to the specimens, and, in the note above 
referred to, I too hastily pronounced it to be an ele” 
Mr. Bentham, however, whose judgment in this matter stant 
deservedly high, at once recognised it as most likely be 
to the genus Mazus: and upon comparing it with Mr. re ; 
description of his Mazus pumilio of Van Diemen’s Land, ce 
inclined to believe it to be the same species. He makes ss 
varieties :—“a, racemus 3-4-florus, pedunculis juxta geo 
bracteola setacea.—. scapus uniflorus.” One of our specimen? — 
__ is still more luxuriant than the var. a. . 
