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or nearly so above, but pedicelled and diandrous below, the pedicels 
of these few lower ones 1-2 lines long, a little longer than the fila- 
ments, with an ovate-acuminate concave bract at their base, and a 
pair of minute bracteoles at the junction of the filaments with the 
pedicel ; the upper ones also each having three small bracts at its base, 
one outer and two inner; bracts and bracteoles sparsely ciliated ; anthers 
broadly cordate, apiculate, thick, dark-coloured. Female flowers produced 
below at base of scape, and for a short distance up it, those at and near the 
base subpaniculate and subeapitate on short branchlets each containing 3-5 
flowers on very short pedicels, crowded ; those few above on scape sessile 
or nearly so and distant, each flower bracteolate at base much as in the 
male flowers ; ovaries, ovate, glabrous, their 2 calycine lobes bearing a few 
white strigose hairs ; styles 2, very long, three times or more the length of 
ovary, subulate, spreading, densely hairy (pubescent-hirsute), hairs light- 
brown, with some of the flat white strigose hairs scattered among them. 
Fruit, globular, about 1 line in diameter, glabrous, bright-red, bearing the 
two persistent calycine lobes of the ovary, which are divergent and black ; 
drupes closely compacted into a head as big as a small cherry. 
Hab, On clay banks in forest between Norsewood and Danneverke, 
Hawke's Bay district, North Island, flowering in November, 1881-1882: 
W.C 
Obs. I.— The broad white and flat hairs plentifully scattered over this 
plant attracts at first sight the eye of the observer ; under a microscope 
_ they present a peculiar vermicular appearance. The pair of minute bracte- 
oles at the base of the pedicelled filaments of the lower male flowers,—and 
also within the larger outer bract of the upper and sessile ones,—seem to 
supply the place of calyx, unless we consider the outer single and larger 
bract as such, and then those inner and smaller ones as petals. In two or 
three instances I have noticed a still larger single bracteole (resembling the 
outer bract) on one of the pedicelled stamens, immediately below the anther. 
Obs. IL—As a species this plant has pretty close affinity with G. 
monoica, Raoul ; but, although monecious like that species, is quite distinct; 
this is very clearly shown by comparison with his own full description with 
plate containing dissections, as given in his Chois de Plantes, p. 18, tab. 8. 
It is also allied to another New Zealand species, G. prorepens ; to the only 
Tasmanian species, G. cordifolia; and to the Fuegian species, G. magellanica. 
Orper XXXVI. LORANTHACEJE 
Genus 1. Loranthus, Linn. 
Loranthus punctatus, sp. nov. 
A large bushy glabrous shrub, main stems 1-14 inch in diameter. 
Branches terete, with light-grey bark filled with fine longitudinal cracks ; 
