328 Transactions —Botany. 
Hab. Hills, forests on the east coast between Wainui and Akitio 
rivers, ** 900 feet elevation ;” January, 1883: Mr. Horace Baker, in lit. 
Obs. I.—A species near to M. perforata, A. Richard, as described at 
length by him ;* his specimens were also obtained from Cook Straits, but 
differing largely in its vesicular capsule calyx and corolla, which plain and 
constant characters, even in dried specimens, could never, I think, have 
been overlooked by Richard. ; 
II.—Sir J. D. Hooker has also made but one species of the above- 
mentioned plant (M. perforata) and A. Cunningham's M. buxifolia: I, 
however, have ever believed (with A. Cunningham) their being distinct ; 
although I have never seen specimens of Richard's (and Forster's) Southern 
New Zealand plant, which is, also, not a climber (apud Richard, loc. cit.) : 
this ** erect” character, however, does not belong to A. Cunningham's M. 
buxifolia, which is a climbing species, and is as common in the forests here 
(Hawke's Bay) as it is at the north. 
IIL— This species, from its short bushy- size, small neat leaves, and 
very numerous flowers, is likely to become a favourite garden shrub. 
Although I have never seen it living, I have received several good speci- 
mens from Mr. Baker, and they are very uniform. 
Orper XXXIV. ARALIACEZ. 
Genus 2. Panax, Linn. 
fus microphylla, sp. nov. 
Plant a small hard-wooded shrub of diffuse growth, 4-5 feet high ; 
branches few, long, slender, straggling, and irregular; branchlets brachiate, 
roughish, sub-muricated with minute tubercles, and occasionally on the 
younger branchlets a few scattered very small linear-ovate obtuse scales. 
Leaves small, sub-membranaceous, glabrous, alternate, sometimes in pairs, 
scattered rather distant, compound and simple, flat, spreading, usually sub- 
orbicular, 4-5 lines diameter, rounded and very obtuse at apex—sometimes 
rhombic and apiculate, sometimes lanceolate and very small, some- 
times trifoliolate on long slender petiolules, the middle leaflet being the 
largest, and sometimes a simple leaf having a pair of minute leaflets just 
below its base—the upper half of the leaf being slightly crenulate, each 
crenature generally bearing a small incurved sharp tooth,—the lower portion 
cuneate, decurrent, margins conniving, jointed to petiole with 4-6 minute 
linear acute stipelle at junction, and several similar stipules at base of 
*petiole; colour bright green with minute white dots on the upper surface, 
paler green below; margins coloured purple; veins indistinct; petioles 
purple-brown, deeply channelled, slender, glabrous, 1-2 lines long. Fruit 
axillary orbicular, about 14 lines diameter, sub-compressed, smooth, on 
* « Voyage de l'Astrolabe, Botanique,” p. 334. 
