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identical with Forster's plant (M. forsteri, Hook.), which was discovered by 
him when with Cook somewhere in the ** Southern Islands,"* and of which 
no specimens have been obtained since Forster first gathered them. This 
species, however, though possessing close affinity with that, bears a different 
shaped capsule, which is not striate or marked longitudinally as that is, its 
calyptra also is differently situated, and has different lips, and there are 
other differences in its frond. 
I have very much pleasure in naming it after the late Sir W. J. Hooker, 
who established the genus, and who correctly described and drew the 
original plant in his justly celebrated Musci Exotici (vol. ii., tab. 174), so 
that the names of those two honoured botanists may remain together in 
connection with this small abnormal and highly curious natural genus, 
which now contains 2 species. 
Art, XLI.— Additions to the Flora of New Zealand. By Joun Bvcnawas, 
F.L.S., of the Geological Survey Department. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 9th December, 1882.] 
Plate XXVIII. 
Hymenanthera traversii, Buchanan. i 
A smart glabrous, branched, shrub-tree. Branches rigid, reddish-brown, 
rough, with viscid secretion; leaves coriaceous, alternate, olive-green, 
shortly petioled, 3-1 inch long, obovate, obtuse or acute, covered closely 
on the back with small silvery-white tubercles, margins reflexed, venation 
obscure, midrib distinct, stipules very small. 
Flowers very small, solitary, in the axils of the upper leaves; pedicels 
short, curved, with small bracts at base; calyx cupular, entire; petals 4 
inch long, linear obovate or linear oblong, obtuse. 
This addition to the flora of New Zealand was discovered in the bush, 
Collingwood district, Nelson, by Mr. H. H. Travers, while on a recent visit 
there. As an ornamental foliaged plant it may be commended, but from 
its diminutive inflorescence it can hardly claim a place in the flower border. 
Plate XXVIII, fig. 1, portion of branch nat. size; 1 a, flower enlarged ; 
1, petal showing glands. 
Metrosideros parkinsonii, Buchanan. 
A large robust climbing shrub with the terminal twigs 4-angled, whole 
plant glabrous. Leaves distichous, shortly petioled, 1}-to 2 inches long, 
oblong-lanceolate acute, midrib prominent, lateral nerves indistinct. 
Flowers numerous in robust little cymes which grow from the branches, 
* “Tn Insulis Australibus.” (Forster in Hb. Lambert). 
