NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 201 
Gorrie describes to me two plants cultivated at Trinity, near Edin- 
burgh, which may be referable to different ages or states of this species ; 
to different forms of M. complexa : or the one to the former and the 
other to the latter species. It seems to me extremely doubtful whether 
M. adpressa, M. complexa, and M. axillaris, Hook. f., should be sepa- 
rated as species. Certainly the trilobate leaf is not per se a sufficient 
specific character. The one of Gorrie’s plants has an entire, the 
other a trilobate leaf, or one which always exhibits a notch in each side 
about its centre. The first plant has proved itself, during the last 
twenty years, quite hardy, and a vigorous grower in various localities 
„about Edinburgh (e.g. Prestonhall and Trinity). I saw a plant of it 
(from Otago seed) growing very luxuriantly as a climber against a wall 
at Trinity,—its growth being so free and rapid that it was said to re- 
quire frequent cutting down. The second plant (from Otago) also 
appears hardy ; though its shoot-points and leaves, which were exposed 
thereto, were injured by the frost of January, 1867. 
5. Genus MYRTUS. 
M. obcordata, Hook. f. Christie's Bush, Saddlehill : November, 
young: W. L. L. The representative, in Otago, of our Myrica Gale, L., 
to which it bears considerable resemblance in habit. | 
My Otago plant approaches M. pedunculata, Hook. f. It is decum- 
bent, much branched; the branches delicate or slender ; the foliage 
sparse, and mostly clothing the ends of the branchlets. Puberulence 
very obscure or absent. Leaf 4—4 inch long; 3-4 inch broad; variable 
in form; lanceolate, ovate, cordate, or subspherical, never distinctly 
obcordate; apex obtuse; margin sometimes thickened, irregularly cre- 
nulate or notched, or sublobate. 
Tarndale (Nelson) specimens in my herbarium, collected by Dr. Sin- 
clair, differ somewhat from my Otago plant. Neither group of speci- 
mens is in flower. The Tarndale plant is erect, but more shrubby and 
dwarf, much stouter, with much denser foliage and more coriaceous 
leaves. Branches stout and woody. Leaf-petioles and tips of branch- 
lets pubescent with grey appressed hairs ; branches very slightly pu- 
bescent, either in Otago or Tarndale plant. Leaf much more uniform 
in shape and size in Tarndale specimens ; generally obcordate with 
notched apex. 
