specimen of the Botany of New Zealand. 205 



On the hazel, Holywood, near Belfast, Ireland, Mr. Haliday. Found 

 near London. 



Fein. Corpus longum, angustum, sublineare, nitens, scitissime squameum, 

 parce hh-tum : caput transversum, breve, thorace paullo latins ; vertex la- 

 tus; frons abrupte declLvis : oculi mediocres : antennae capitatae, thorace paullo 

 breviores ; articulus 1"* gracilis, fusiformis; 2"' longicyathiformis ; 3"', 4"^ et 

 5"* sublineares, aequales ; clava ovata, articulo 5° multo latior et plus duplo 

 longior : thorax longiovatus, parum convexus : prothorax conspicuus, lati- 

 tudine longior, antice angustus : mesothoracis scutum depressum, latitudine 

 longius; parapsidum suturse non bene determinatas; scutellum obconicum ; 

 metathorax mediocris : petiolus brevissimus : abdomen longiovatum, de- 

 pressum, apice acuminatum, thorace paullo latius vix longius ; segmentum 

 1""" magnum, 2*"" et sequentia brevia : pedes graciles, simplices, subaequales ; 

 tarsis articulus 1"* brevis, 4"* longus; ungues et pulvilli minuti : alis nervus 

 ulnaris hiuiierali longior, cubitalis sat longior, stigma parvum subfurcatum 

 fingens ; radialis brevissimus. 



[To be continued.] 



XXVI. — Flor<B Insularum Nova: Zelandics Precursor; or a 

 Specimen of the Botany of the Islands of New Zealand. 

 By Allan Cunningham, Esq. 



[Continued from p. 132.] 



RUBIACE/E, (Juss). 



(Operculari^e, a. Rich.) 



1. Opercularia, GcBrtn., A. Rich. 



46G. O. diphyUa, foliis , capitulis ex dichotomia ramorum stipitatis 



sphsericis involucris setoso-hispidis in capitulo pluribus 3 — 4 floris, corollis 

 tetrandris. DC. Prodr. iv. j>- 616. Gcertn. Rcem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. iii. 

 p. 337. — Rubioides diphylla. Soland. Ms. in Bibl. Banks. 

 New Zealand.— 1769, Sir Jos. Banks. 



467. 0. aspera, foliis oblongis scabris venosis, floribus capitatis pedun- 



culis axillaribus. DC. Prodr. iv. p. 616. Spreng.Syst. Veg.i.p.ZS6. Gcertn. 



Rcem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. iii. p. 334. — Rubioides aspera. Sol. Ms. in Bibl. 



Banks. 



2. Galium, Z. Juss. 



468. G. tenuicaule, annuum, caule debili valde attenuate tetragono re- 

 trorsum aspero, foliis quaternis spathulato-oblongis acutis basi angustatis 

 aculcato-scabris, pedunculis axillaribus subtrifloris, folium subaequantibus, 

 fructibus globoso-didymis glabris. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Damp woods on the Keri-Keri and 

 Wangaroa rivers. — 1834, R. Cunningham. 



469. G. projnnquum, annuum, caule attenuate debili decumbente tetra- 

 gono glabro membranaceo, foliis quaternis (4 lineas longis) ellipticis acutis 

 petiolatis margine aculeato-hispidis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis folio vix 

 longioribus, fructibus glabris globoso-didymis minutim tuberculatis. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Shaded woods, Wangaroa. — 1833, R, 

 Cunningham. 



