820 Transactions.— Botany. 
Dicksonia sparmanniana. 
Hymenophyllum erecto-alatum. 
oi pusillum. 
Trichomanes venustula. 
Making in all a gross total of 53 species of ferns found growing together 
in a very small plot of ground, being several more than the whole number 
of species of ferns found in the British Islands. And I have good reasons 
for believing that the following additional species may yet be found there 
also, as I know they are growing in profusion not far off, viz. cxLenetie 
nigra, Polypodium cunninghamii, Adiantum diaphanum. 
Of one thing respecting this beautiful and justly-prized order of plants 
I feel pretty certain, namely,—that there are several still unknown and 
undiscovered species yet to be found in New Zealand.* For I am yearly 
becoming more and more convinced of the correctness of my old belieft in 
the very circumscribed locality of not a few of our New Zealand plants ; 
and, therefore, as the many still unexplored mountains and valleys, forests 
and plains of New Zealand come to be visited and known,—especially to 
men of science, —their many botanical novelties will become known also ; 
though I much fear that cattle and fire, and introduced plants, will cer- 
tainly destroy many. Such, indeed, has been the case here already in not 
a few places in Hawke’s Bay. 
Art. XL.— Descriptions of a few new Indigenous Plants. 
By W. Cotenso, F.L.8. 
(Read before the Hawke’s Bay Philosophical Institute, 9th October, 1882.) 
Class I. DicotyLepons: 
Order XXIL} LEGUMINOSA. 
Genus 1. Carmichelia, Br. 
Carmichelia corrugata, sp. nov. 
An exceedingly small glabrous shrub, 2-8 inches high ; branches leafless, 
1-2 inches long, 1 line wide, mostly simple, rarely forked, flat, linear, 
obtuse, striated (almost ridged) and grooved longitudinally, slightly flexuous, 
* As a further proof, I may here mention that I have this year detected four new 
species of ferns,—two of them being also tree-ferns,—in another unfrequented portion of 
these grand old forests, some ten miles south of this spot ; of which a full description will 
be given in a future paper 
1 See “ Trans. N.Z. jag vol. i,—Essay “On the Botany of the North Island 
of New Zealand," $$ 14, 
t The numbers hes od to both orders and genera are those of ** The Handbook 
of the New Zealand Flora." 
