Bucnanan.— Revised descriptions of two species of N.Z. Panax. 531 
11 tenths inch diameter. Cells 4. Styles 4, connate into a cone, with 
their summits free, but scarcely recurved. 
Common throughout the islands. The trifoliate state of the young leaves 
is rare at Dunedin, as also at Wellington, but common in Auckland and 
Canterbury Districts. 
This species may be distinguished from Panaw crassifolium by the long 
linear leaves of the young plant, more or less serrate, the thrice compound 
wide-spreading umbels, and the small 4-celled fruit. 
Much difficulty has been experienced by local collectors in discriminating 
between the present species and Panaw crassifolium, in consequence of the 
absence of a full description of P. longissimum in the ** Handbook of the New 
Zealand Flora;’’ and, as this difficulty can be easiest remedied in the Bush, 
the present attempt—the result of observations made there—is offered for 
that purpose. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXI. 
Fig. 1. Plant nat. size. Fig. 2. Fruit nat. size. Fig. 3. Section of fruit enlarged. 
Fig. 4. Fruit enlarged. 
Art. LXXVII.—On a few of the Grasses and other Herbage Plants that might 
be advantageously introduced into Cultivation in New Zealand. ` 
By Dr. 8. M. Curt. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, September 16th, 1876.) 
Tux introduction, acclimatisation, and cultivation of economic plants in a 
young colony like New Zealand is a work not only of interest to those 
engaged in it, but is of the utmost importance to all colonists, and to the 
best interests and progress of the Colony generally, as from these plants 
articles of commerce and raw materials for manufactories are procured, 
and the dwellers in urban and extra-urban districts participate in the ad- 
vantages. 
In Colonies with a climate similar to New Zealand, where the flocks of 
sheep and herds of cattle and horses are not only of importance to the 
grazier and pastoralist, but to all the mercantile and other classes who 
dispose of the products, wool, tallow, hides, riding and draught horses, 
etc., but also to all who eat the meat of the sheep and cattle, it must be a 
matter of consequence to introduce and get into cultivation those grasses, 
clovers, and fodder plants that will improve the fields and pastures whereon 
the flocks and herds are kept and fed. Impressed with these views, I have 
for a number of years obtained from other countries, and endeavoured to 
