288 Transactions.— Botany, 
Order X. MALVACEA., 
Genus 2. Hoheria, A. Cunn, 
1. Hoheria sexstylosa, sp. nov. 
Tree erect, 12-14 feet, fastigiate, much branched; bark scaly with 
many small cracks and a whitish epidermis; branches long, slender, 
glabrous, roughish, bark dark reddish-brown; branchlets puberulous, with 
star-like pubescence. Leaves rather distant, glabrous, very variable in size 
and shape, mostly, however, lanceolate on the main and flowering branches, 
2-22 inches long, acuminate, sometimes truncated at tips, cuneate, very 
finely reticulated and dotted, sub-membranaceous, light green above and 
lighter green below, sharply and deeply serrate, teeth acute; petioles 4 
inch, flat above, and (with peduncles and calyces) thickly clothed with star- 
like pubescence. Flowers numerous, white, 1 inch and more in diameter, 
axillary and lateral, fascicled, mostly 8-4 together, sometimes 2, and also 
only 1; peduncles $ inch, jointed about the middle; calyx cup-shaped, 5- 
lobed, lobes large, deltoid-acuminate, acute with a knob at tips, 8-nerved, 
purplish-green ; petals 5, connate at base, oblong, 7 lines long, 8 lines 
wide, oblique, obtuse, each petal deeply one-notched on the right side near 
tip, veined, glabrous, hairy within near base, spreading, incurved; filaments 
5-adelphous, spreading, 2 lines long; anthers (filaments and styles) white, 
reniform, sub-versatile; styles 6-7, stout, flexuous, shaggy; stigmas capitate, 
large, flattish at top, papillose, slightly coloured, yellowish ; ovary included 
sunk, 6-7 ridged, pubescent. 
Hab. Skirts of woods and thickets, Norsewood, Matamau, and Taho- 
raiti, County of Waipawa; 1883-84: W.C. Flowering in March and 
April ; 
Obs. No two trees ean be more unlike in their foliage than this is in 
its young and in its mature state; and not only so, but the same tree in 
the leaves on its older and flowering branches, and in those on its younger 
and lower branches; these latter, like those on the young trees, are under 
an inch long, rhomboid, trilobed, sub-orbicular, etc., but always deeply 
serrate and sub-fascicled, generally four together and all of various sizes. 
On the flowering branches also, the lowest leaves are invariably small. I 
have long known this plant in its young and leafing state, and had always 
supposed it to be a variety of Plagianthus betulinus, A. Cunn., which it much 
resembles. When in flower it has a striking and elegant appearance, and 
it remains a long time in full blossom ; it will make a handsome garden 
tree or tall shrub. Not unfrequently 5-6, or more, standards rise from the 
one root, all about the same size, forming a little compact clump. The 
bark of the older trees is often completely covered with handsome crusta- 
ceous lichens, 
