90 s Pransactions. 
Prasophyllum colensoi. 
Microlena polynoda. 
Hymenophyllum lyallii. 
Ozothamnus glomeratus, usually found on dry hills, is most abundant at 
the sea level, but has not been observed above 1,600 feet. | 
Hymenophyllum lyallii attains its greatest elevation, 2,000 feet. 
Loxsoma cunninghamii observed slightly under 1,000 feet. 
Naturalized plants are found in abundance from the sea level to the 
crest of the ranges. Nearly one hundred species were identified, only one of 
the number, Nepeta cataria, which is abundant at Whangapurapura Bay, 
not having been previously seen on the main land. In some localities, 
Cyperus ustulatus, and one or two plants of equally coarse growth, are the 
only forms able to hold their ground against the mallows, chamomile, thistle, 
docks, and grasses of the northern hemisphere. 
New OR ÜRITICAL SPECIES, VARIATIONS, ETC. 
Clematis indivisa, Willd—A form with decompound leaves is not 
uncommon. 
[Melicytus ?] Hymenanthera latifolia, var. tasmanica.—A. dwarf bush or 
straggling shrub, 2 to 10 feet high. Leaves close set, obovate, narrowed 
into rather stout petioles, 2 to 3 inches long, distantly crenate, or serrate, 
finely reticulate on both surfaces; peduncles in axillary fascicles, } to $ inch 
long, with two minute opposite bracts about the middle, erect or decurved ; 
calyx persistent, 5-lobed; lobes obtuse; fruit nearly globose, tipped with 
the remainder of the style, 2-seeded ; towen not seen. 
iginally discovered in the Northern Island by Mr. Colenso ; possibly a 
form of M. macrophyllus. 
Pittosporum [n.s.] huttonianum, n:s.—A. somewhat irregularly-branched 
shrub or small tree, 12 to 25 feet high, with black or dark brown bark; 
young branches slender, and with the leaves and petioles clothed with white 
floccose tomentum ; leaves alternate, oblong or ovate, obtuse or acute, rarely 
acuminate, 3 to 5 dichos long, slightly coriaceous when old; petioles slender, 
+ to i inch long; flowers not seen; peduncles very slender, erect, } to 
1 inch long, solitary, axillary, downy, vindy on a short leafy pedicel ; yen 
2- to 3-valved, downy. 
Very distinet from any described New Zealand species. 
Pittosporum [n.s.?] virgatum, n.s.—A. slender tree, 20 to 25 feet high ; 
2 branches twiggy ; leaves alternate, lanceolate, or ovate, or obovate, acute, 
Hargina entire, or irregularly crenate, or sinuate, or variously lobed ; leaves 
andy branches clothed with silky ai aa hairs on both surfaces ; ; 
3 ver, ‘short, c 
