24 Specimen of the Botany of Neio Zealand. 



subunguiculata, apice triloba. Discus glandulosus. Stamina circiter 

 12. Antherce cordato-oblong£B, miitictie, 2-loculares, poris sub apice 

 dehiscentes. Stylus leviter sulcatus, apice 2-vel 4-fidus. Bacca sicca, 

 fragilis, 4-locularis, loculis dispermis. Semina angulata subtriquetra, 

 testa atra nitida, rugosa, Crustacea. 



603. F. racemosa, foliis (oppositis) cordato-ovatis acuminatis petiolatia 

 insequaliter serratis flaccidis venosis, racemis compositis subpaniculatis pa- 

 tentibus axillaribus ramulisque villosis. — Dicera ? serrata. Forst. Prodr. n, 

 227. DC. Prodr. i. p. 520. A. Rich. FL Nov. Zel. p. 304.— Elgeocarpus Di- 

 cera. Fakl. Symh. iii. p. 67. T^mrK^- "7c .^V. ^ .7. -h-^O/. 



Mako-MaJco of the natives. R. C. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). — 1769, Sir Jos. Banks. Shady forests 

 and margins of running streams, shores of the Bay of Islands, and elsewhere 

 on the east coast where it usually flowers in Oct. and Nov. — 1826, A. Cun- 

 ningham. (Middle Island.) — 1773, G. Forster. 



Arhuscula erecta pulcherrima, 12 — 15 pedal is : rami patentes, teretes, 

 suboppositi. Folia membranacea, minute reticulato-venosa, juniora varie 

 violacea purpurascentique picta. Flores in racemes patentes dispositi. 

 Calyx villosus ciliatus. Petala albido-rosea vel purpurascentia, sepalis al- 

 terna. Filamenta staminum cinereo-villosa. Stylus deciduus. 



STERCULIACE^E, Kunth. Endl. {Bomhacece, D.C?) 



Plagianthus, Forst. 



. Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx subhaemisphsericus 5-fidus aut dentatus, 

 persistens. Petala 5, cum tubo staminum unita. Stamina 10 — 12, fila- 

 lamenta in tubum cylindraceum unitum. Pistillum solitarium. Ovarium 

 ovatum, 1 — 2 ovulatum, ovulis suspensis. Stylus crassiusculus. Stigma 

 magnum bilobum, hinc decurrens, papillosum. Capsula subdrupacea 1 — 2 

 cocca, apicvdata indehiscens. Cocculi 1-spermi. Semen pendens. Albu- 

 men carnosum. Embryo immersus, curvatus. Radicula cylindracea, ad 

 hilum seminis versa : Cotyledones majusculse planre subfoliaceae longitudi- 

 naliter undulatse. — Arbores vel Frutices. Folia stipulata, alterna, linearia 

 aut ovata. Flores subsolitarii paniculatique. 



604. P. divaricatus, glaber, foliis fasciculatis lineari-spathulatis obtusis 

 integerrimis patentibus trinerviis floribus solitariis binisve axillaribus, pe- 

 talis obovatis ad basin tubi staminum unit is, lobis stigmatis tubo inclusis, 

 caule fruticoso. Forst. Prodr. n. 254. DC. Prodr, i. p. 477. A. Rich. Fl. 

 Nov. Zel. p. 299. Bot. Mag. 3271. 



Runa, indigenis. R. Cunn. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). — 1769^ Sir Jos. Banks. Frequent in 

 salt marshes on low sides of rivers, where it forms dense bushes. — 1826, A. 

 Cunninghayn. (Middle Island). — 1773, G. Forster. • 



Frutex gracilis, diffusus, 3 — 1 pedalis, ramis virgatis divaricatis alternis 

 teretibus prorsus glabris, cortice atro-brunneo, stipulis procumbentibus. 

 Flores solitarii intcrdum bini ; pediccllis brcvibus. Calyx cyathiformis, 5- 

 dcntatus, dciilibus acutis parvis brevibus divaricatis. Petala ovata, conca- 



