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pumilum were obtained here, and another new Pittosporum, belonging to a 
different section of the genus to the forms already noticed. 
Pittosporum gilliesianum, n.sp., a small shrub 1 to 3 feet high, with slender 
branches, leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, rarely obtuse, densely crowded, 
entire, slightly membranous, erect or spreading, scarcely petioled, 4 to 
li inch long, ys to i inch wide, branches and leaves downy when 
young. Flowers terminal in small clusters of 3 to 6, rarely solitary ; 
peduncles very slender, 2 to $ inch long, clothed with ineurved hairs, 
1-flowered ; sepals subulate, with membranous margins, finely hairy ; petals 
subulate, reflexed, slender, yellow with a purple stripe down the middle ; 
capsules erect, ovoid-acuminate, or conical, not compressed, downy, 2-valved, 
valves membranous, at length deciduous, the nuts usually retaining their 
position on the peduncle long after the valves have fallen, tips of the valves 
straight 
The branches are rarely whorled ; a singular and unique specimen picked 
by Mr. Gillies has the branches dichotomously whorled, with capsules in the 
vortices of the secondary whorls. It is allied to P. reflecum, from which it 
differs in the peduncles being uniformly 1-flowered in the erect clustered 
peduncles, which are never compressed or have the tips recurved. 
I have named this interesting plant in compliment to my esteemed friend 
T. B. Gillies, Esq., who was my companion at the time of its discovery, and 
at whose suggestion and partly by whose advice the excursion was under- 
taken. 
The country between Parengarenga and Spirits Bay is for the most 
part of an uninteresting character. Pomaderris edgerleyi and Prasophyllum 
pumilum were observed sparingly in several distant localities, and a showy 
Hibiscus, with very large bright yellow flowers, was abundant in Spirits Bay. 
This plant is not mentioned in the “Handbook,” but I am informed it was 
originally discovered by the Rev. W. Taylor and Mr. Colenso many years 
back. It may have been introduced by a vessel wrecked on the coast. At 
Tapotopoto Bay a dwarf Melicytus, allied to JI. macrophyllus, and identical 
with a plant picked on Mount Camel by Mr. Buchanan (found also on the 
Great Barrier), was collected. Coprosma petiolata (?) and a procumbent 
species allied to C. cunninghami, but without flower or fruit, were found on 
the sands, also C. baueriana and Sapota costata. 
A diminutive form of Gleichenia flabellata formed large patches amongst 
the stunted Leptospermum which clothed the hill sides and elevated open 
ground, and the rare Todea africana was abundant in open but sheltered 
gullies between Hooper's Point and Parengarenga. Its rigid character 
made it of easy recognition at some distance, and reminded one forcibly of 
the European Osmunda, to which it is nearly allied. 
