870 Transactions,— Botany. 
the Handbook of the New Zealand Flora, writes,—‘‘ Hector observes 
that the utricle is fleshy.” It is somewhat remarkable that this statement 
did not suggest the possibility of the plant in question being a Rhagodia 
since the fruits of all our Chenopodia are dry. 
On examining the specimens of Chenopodium triandrum in the herbarium 
of the Colonial Museum, I observed specimens of Rhagodia from The 
Brothers rocks, and other localities not stated, but probably in the vicinity 
of Wellington. 
It is worthy of remark that no fewer than nine genera formerly sup- 
posed endemic in Australia have been added to our flora since the publica- 
tion of the ** Handbook.” They are :— 
Actinotus, 
Rhagodia, 
Poranthera, 
Culochilus, 
Epiblema, 
Amphibromus. 
Liparophyllum, 
Lepilana, 
Iphigenia. 
Art. XXXII.— Description of a new Pine. By T. Kirk, F.L.S. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 14th November, 1883.] 
; Plate XXVI 
Podocarpus acutifolius, n. 8. 
A Low growing shrub, 2-5 feet high; branches lax, slender. Leaves scat- 
tered, green, coriaceous, spreading, straight, linear, acuminate, pungent ; 
midrib prominent beneath. Peduncles of male catkins 1"—1" long or more, 
naked or with one or two short pungent leaves: catkins solitary, or in fas- 
cicles of from two to five, extremely slender. Involucre at the base of each 
catkin consisting of four scarious acuminate bracts. Female flowers soli- 
tary, axillary, on short peduncles, which in the young state are invested 
with a loose membranous sheath. Drupe (immature), small, ovoid. 
Hab. South Island—Upper part of the Buller Valley: 7. Kirk, 1875. 
Our plant belongs to the section Eupodocarpus, its nearest allies being 
P. totara, A. Cunn., and P. nivalis, Hook. f. From the former it is distin- 
guished by its low stature, lax habit, narrow linear leaves, and slender 
catkins with uniseriate involucres ; it differs from the latter in the slender 
habit and acute spreading leaves, which are never imbricated, 
