880 Transactions.— Botany. 
Arr. LVI.—Notes on New Zealand Plants. By J. Bucuanay, F.L.8. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 21st February, 1880.] 
Mesembryanthemum equilaterale, Haw. 
Baron von Mueller informs me that this species is often found accom- 
panying Mesembryanthemum australis, Soland., and may be distinguished by 
the longer acutely trigonous leaves and pulpy fruit. 
Zannichellia palustris, Linn.* 
According to Baron von Mueller, there is little doubt that the plant under 
this name belongs to the genus Lepilena. The difference between Zanni- 
chellia and Lepilena consists in the male flowers. These may be easily 
found all the year round in New Zealand at the swollen bases of the leaves, 
and generally on distinet plants from the female. 
Solanum vescum, F. Muell. 
Respecting this species, its author states that it may often be found 
growing with Solanum aviculare, Forst. It is a smaller shrub, and is dis- 
tinguished from the latter by the angular dark-green branches, small entire 
dark-green leaves, darker coloured flowers, with somewhat different stamens, 
berries small, roundish, and green, never egg-shaped or orange-colour when 
ripe. The natives of Australia always avoid the fruit of S. aviculare, as 
poisonous, but eat with impunity that of S. vescum. 
The following plants have been recently added to the flora of New 
Zealand :— 
Oreostylidium, Berggren, nov. gen. 
This genus is founded on a small alpine, Stylidium subulatum, Hook. 
fil, Handb. N.Z. Flora, I., 168; placed in that genus by Hooker from 
imperfect flowering specimens. Oreostylidium differs from Stylidium in the 
deeply divided corolla, short erect column, and indehiscent capsule. Habitat 
in New Zealand, Ruapehu Mountain, Swampy Hill near Dunedin, Inver- 
cargill, Berggren; Nelson Mountains, Travers ; Haast. Trans. Hoy. Soc. 
Lund, 1878, p. 1. 
Abrotanella linearis, Berggren, n. sp. 
A larger plant than A. pusilla of Hook. fl, Handbook N.Z. Flora, L., 
139. Scape longer and bracteate. Leaves long, obtuse, spreading, Otira 
Gorge, Canterbury, 8,000ft. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lund, 1878, p. 14. 
Dracophyllum acerosum, Berggren, n. sp. 
Mount Torlesse and Bealy River, Canterbury. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lund, 
1878, p. 15. 
inen in Nee Quo. 2 eee ee 
* [For reference to the occurrence in New Zealand of Zannichellia (Lepilena) palus- 
tris, Linn., and L. preissii, F. Mueller, see papers by T. Kirk, F.L.S., in Trans. N.Z. Inst., 
IMI., 143; VIL, 508; X. App. xl.—Ed.] 
