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I am informed that this was one of the many good things originally dis- 
covered in the Northern Island by Mr. Colenso, and more recently by Dr. 
Hector and Mr. Buchanan, but I am ignorant how far these gentlemen may 
agree on the question of its distinctness from D. colensoi, with which it has 
been confused, and from which it differs (according to the description of that 
species in the “ Handbook of the New Zealand Flora”) in its larger size, red 
wood, large linear leaves (which greatly resemble a Picea), in the appressed 
small leaves, and in the aggregated faintly-ribbed nuts, which are uninverted 
in all stages of growth. 
Phyllocladus glauca, n.s.—A remarkably distinct and handsome dicecious 
tree, 20 to 30 feet high, rarely higher, sparingly branched, branches often 
whorled, very stout. Phyllodes distichous or scattered, 1 to 3 inches long, 
often arranged in a rachis 6 to 12 inches long, and thickly clustered at 
the tips of the branches, broad, excessively coriaceous, with large coarse 
teeth, or waved or lobed, margins slightly recurved: male catkins 1 inch 
long, on stout erect peduncles, 1 to 1} inch long, thickly set amongst the 
recurved scales and phyllodes at the tips of the branches ; receptacles aggre- 
gated in shortly-stalked rounded clusters of from 5 to 18, the size of a hazel 
nut, with a minute scale on the rachis, or more rarely a depauperated 
phyllode ; usually distichously arranged, in from 6 to 16 clusters on a main 
rachis, with or without one or more phyllodes at the apex. Nuts from 5 to 
18 on each cluster, rounded on the back and polished, with compressed edges. 
A very distinct species: certainly the most handsome of the New Zealand 
pines. Fruiting specimens, collected at the sea level at Omaha, were for- 
warded to Dr. Hooker somewhat more than a year ago. Heat once indorsed 
the collector’s opinion as to its distinctness, although its dicecious character 
was not even suspected at that time, and is only established by the present 
specimen from the Great Barrier, where it occurs at an elevation of 2,000 
eet. 
Scheenus [n.s.] tenuis, n.s—A slender-growing species, apparently inter- 
mediate between S. tendo and S. pauciflorus, is found on several places on the 
island and elsewhere, but specimens have not been procured in a fit state for 
description. 
Gahnia [T] pauciflora, n.s.—A. plant apparently allied to G. procera, is 
found in woods, height 1 to 3 feet, sparingly branched, branches pendulous; 
nut very large, shining, red, transversely grooved withi 
Gahnia M MATE: g £—Imperfectly described in the “ Handbook ” as 
.—. G. zanth the height of 9 to 12 feet, with long adu 
leaves ae drooping b — anti large, black » transversely furrowed within. 
