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short slender bracteolated stalks (peduncles or pedicels), having many small 
bracts at their bases, white or pinkish-white, with sculptured dark (black) 
effigurate spots or blotches, having a peculiar sunken or burnt appearance, 
and-bearing a calycine crown of 5 teeth; styles 2 persistent, long, slender, 
divergent and recurved ; sometimes 2 or 8 fruits spring together; carpels 
lunate, gibbous, flattish, rugulose without longitudinal ridges ; seed with 
plain sides. lowers not seen. 
Hab. In shady open forests near Norsewood (S.), Waipawa County, 
1882-8: W.C. 
Obs.—A species Dare pretty close affinity with P. anomalum, Hook., 
but differing from that species in its smaller and variously shaped leaves 
with glabrous (not pubescent) and deeply channelled petioles—in its smaller 
and differently coloured fruit bearing plain-surfaced carpels and seeds-—and 
particularly*in its branches not being densely hairy (‘ setoso-squamulatis ”) 
as in P. anomalum. P. anomalum is also a much larger shrub; and I have 
never once met with it in these southern parts, nor, indeed, anywhere else 
besides the forests in the Waikato, Nam I discovered it, 1842 (** Tasmanian 
Journal of Natural Science," vol. ii., 7T). 
Orper XXXVI. PORTA 
Genus 2. Tupeia, Chamisso and Schlechtendal. 
Tupeia undulata, sp. nov. 
Plant a small dicecious parasitical diffuse shrub; branches long, straight, 
terete, jointed, 2 feet-2 feet 6 inches long, bark light greenish-grey, some- 
what scurfy, not smooth ; branchlets opposite, sub-compressed, densely 
covered with light-brown obtuse patent rigid sub-glandular pubescence ; 
young leaves and flowers enclosed in dark brown scale-like bracts, 2-4 lines 
long, deltoid and obovate, obtuse with fimbriate margins, 8-nerved, middle 
nerve long, lateral ones short. Leaves (male plant) few, opposite, distant, 
sub-rhomboid and rhomboid- -obovate, obtuse, 8 inches long, 2 inches broad ; 
(female plant) leaves much smaller, sub-rhomboid and broadly oblong- 
lanceolate, 14 inches long, $ inch broad, sub-membranaceous, not thick or 
fleshy, green, smooth, not shining, undulate, decurrent nearly to base of 
petiole ; petioles short, under 2 lines long, and with midrib thickly pubescent, 
margins sub-sinuate, slightly scaberulous or sub-papillose (of young leaves 
minutely pubescent-ciliate) ; veins prominent above, veinlets anastomosing. 
Flowers terminal on short axillary branchlets, panicled ; panicles short, 
dense, having, in the female plant especially, a sub-umbellate appearance, 
about 1 inch long, each containing 6-12 flowers, peduncles and pedicels 
pubescent, sub-panicles and pedicels bracteolate at base, bracteoles linear- 
ovate, about 1 line long, recurved, caducous ; lower sub-panicles bearing 
2-3, sometimes (but rarely) 4 flowers each: male flower on much larger 
