360 Transactions.— Botany. 
A species having affinity with C. parviflora, A. Cunn., though very 
distinct. 
Hab.—On the banks of the River Mangatawhainui (head of the River: 
Manawatu), *Forty-mile bush," 1878, and again, 1879; where it forms 
dense bushes with Rubus cissoides, climbing tolerably high, 14-16 feet, and 
presenting a glorious mass of yellow blossoms. Its flowers, however, are 
very fugacious, so much so that it is difficult to obtain good specimens, the 
mere gathering causing them to fall; hermaphrodite flowers, though care- 
fully sought, were not seen. 
I have very great pleasure in naming this graceful plant after our earliest 
botanical draughtsman, SvpxEv Parkinson, who accompanied Sir Joseph 
Banks and Captain Cook on their first voyage of discovery to New Zealand. 
Manibus Parkinsonibus sacrum.* 
METROSIDEROS PENDENS. 
A climbing plant with reddish rugged bark, having stems round or ob- 
tusely and irregularly furrowed and angled or compressed, emitting rootlets 
like ivy, and bearing many pendulous leafy branches. 
Leaves decussate and distichous, shortly petiolate, ovate acute, 7—9 lines 
long, 8-5 lines broad, with occasionally a pair nearly orbicular, triplinerved 
or sub-quintuplinerved, very pilose on both sides, thickly punctate, some- 
what concave and imbricate, margins revolute, dark-green above and pale 
or yellowish-green below, sub-membranaceous, old leaves rather dry with 
obscure veins, young leaves and branchlets very light-coloured with scarcely 
a tinge of green at first; ultimate branches long, straight, always simple 
drooping, 12-18 inches long, densely villous, hairs patent. Flowers pendu- 
lous, white, small, 2 lines long, 8-16 together in a thyssoid panicle, mostly 
trichotomous, and always terminal; calyx gracefully infundibuliform, nearly 
2 lines long, more than twice as long as the ovary, much broader at top 
and narrower at base than the ovary, pubescent and punctate, teeth 5 (some- 
times only 8 or 4), triangular acuminate, re-curved, much longer than the 
petals, punctate, pubescent, and springing without from below the prolonged 
inner rim of the calyx; petals very minute, deciduous, whitish or light pink, 
somewhat orbicular, jagged at apex, clawed, the very short claw dark pink. 
Anthers minute, orbicular, light pink ; filaments white, very slender, hair- 
like, flexuose, crowded, numerous, always more than 20, 2 lines long, 
deciduous; style slender, much longer than the stamens, 5 lines long, wavy, 
persistent; stigma dilated and slightly emarginate ; ovary very small, less 
than a line in diameter, pilose, globose, obseurely trigonous, turgid, bursting 
loeulicidally nearly to base. The main peduncle or rhachis stout, terminal, 
being the continuation of the branch, 4-6 lines long, this sometimes has a 
* Vide Trans. N. Z. Inst., Vol. X., p. 109. 
