208 Specimen of the Botany of Neiv Zealand. 



entier dans son bord, est un caractere qui ne s'est ofFert a nous dans 

 aucune autre espece du genre. Peutetre que si nous avions pu etudier 

 I'organisation des diverses parties de la fleur, nous eussions ete porte 

 h. faire de notre plante un genre nouveau," A. Rich. 

 AiRnis Psycliotrice, sed bacca non costata. 



5, Nertera, Banks in Gcertn. Fr. Juss. 



481. N. depressa. Z)C. i v. jp. 451. Forst.Prodr.n.oOl, Smith Ic. Ined. 

 ii. t. 28. — Gomozia granadensis. Mutis in Linn. Suppl.p.29. 



6. Geophila, Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. 136. 

 {Psychotrice, Sp. L.) 

 Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis linearibus patenti-recurvis. Corolla tubulosa, 

 fauces pilosns lobis 5 ovatis subreciirvis. Anthers 5 inclusas. Stigma 

 bifidum. Bacca ovoidea costato-angulata calyce coronata bilocularis 

 disperma. 



482. G. ? dicho7idra:fulia, hispido-pilosa, foliis (semiuncialibus) latissime 

 ellipticis subreniformibusve cordatis acuminatls petiolum sequantibus, flori- 

 bus • fructibus subsessilibus solitariis terniinalibus. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). In dry woods on the shores of the Bay 

 of Islands, at Wainiat^, Hokianga, &c. — 1834, R. Cunni7igham. " Bearing 

 orange-coloured berries" in December. 



I have been induced to refer this plant (clearly, I conceive,) of 

 Rubiacea to Geophila of Don, as much from its habit, as from the struc- 

 ture of its fruit, reported to be an orange-coloured bacca. 

 7. ViscuM, L. 



483. V. anfarcticum, ramis compresso-teretibus, ramulis ancipitibus, foliis 

 oblongo-ovatis basi attenuatis petiolatis obtusis undulatis, enerviis, racemis, 

 i-amis axillaribus terminalibusve patentibus articulatls. Forst. Prodi-. n.370. 

 A. Rich. FL Nov. Zel.p.269. DC. Prodr. iv. p. 285.— Tupeia antarctica. 

 Schlechtend. in Linncea, ii. p. 203. 



New Zealand (Middle Island).— 1773, G. Forster. (Northern Island,) 

 parasitical on Aviceiima tome?itosa, Br., on the banks of the Kana-Kana river. 

 — 1834, R. Cunningham. 



484. F. pubigerum, ramis teretibus liBvibus dichotomis, foliis elliptico- 

 rhomboideis obtusis basi attenuatis venosis margine asperis, nervo medio ramii- 

 lisque piibescentibus, floribus terminalibus lateralibusve umbellato-racemosis. 



Tiran-riki, incol., R. Cunn. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Upon several trees on river banks, at 

 the Bay of Islands. A. Cunningham. 



485. V. saUcornoides, aphyllum, ramosissimum, ramis teretibus articulatis, 

 vaginis dilatatis. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Parasitical on Leptospermum scoparium, 

 the Kahikitra of the natives, Keri-Keri river, Bay of Islands. — 1834, R, 

 Cunningham. 



8. LoRANTHUS, L. 



486. L. tetrapetalus, L. Forst. Prodr. n. 156. Schidt. Syst. Feg. vii. p. 

 (JO. DC. Prodr, iv.p. 295. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 268. 



