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alternate with petals ; anthers sub-orbicular, bright yellow; disk green, 
convex ; styles long, divergent, recurved, stout, obtuse, arising from an 
elevated base ; stigmas slightly pencilled, purple. 
Obs. Flowering in February. Each panicle almost invariably bears 
one large fruit before the other flowers are open. I have recently detected 
some larger shrubs, in those same localities, 5—7 feet high. 
Oroer XXXVI. LORANTHACEZX. 
Genus 1. Loranthus, Linn, 
1. Loranthus polychroa, sp. nov. 
A glabrous spreading shrub of irregular horizontal growth ; branches 
extending 2-8 feet. Leaves 2-24 inches long, 7-10 lines broad, narrow- 
oblong and oblong-lanceolate, very obtuse and rounded at apex, sometimes 
(rarely) apiculate, tapering at base and narrowed into a rather long petiole 
4-6 lines long, coriaceous, sub-glaucous-green, veins obscure when fresh, 
very apparent in dried leaves, 5-7 diverging from near base, margins 
thickened, sub-revolute, coloured red, and regularly and finely tuberculated. 
Racemes erect, about 1 inch long, 12-16-flowered ; peduncle quadrangular, 
stout, tapering; pedicels decussate 2 lines long; flowers bright orange- 
red, 7-8 lines long ; corolla slender, straight, swollen about the middle at 
base of filaments; petals linear-spathulate, sub-acute, longer than anthers, 
combined to below the middle, recurved and appressed from middle, darkish- 
coloured on outside at tips; anthers linear; style filiform longer than 
anthers ; stigma dark red, globular, finely papillose; calyx rather deep, 
margin uniform, even ; tube cylindrical, oblong, length of pedicel. 
Hab. Parasitical and high up on trunks of Fagus solandri ; woods near 
Norsewood, County of Waipawa, but scarce; March, 1884: W.C. Speci- 
mens, flowers, and leaves picked up. 
Obs, A species near to L. flavidus, Hook. fil., yet distinct (vide descript. 
supra), as well as from the many other described species (nearly 200!) of 
this large genus. 
Orpen XXXVII. CAPRIFOLIACEA. 
Genus 1. Alseuosmia, A. Cunn. 
1. Alseuosmia pusilla, sp. nov. 
A small glabrous shrub, 5-8 (rarely 10) inches high, erect, simple, some- 
times bearing 2-3 very short branches, and also other plants once forked 
from the base. 
Leaves few, 8-12, distant, spreading, petiolate, 1-24 inches long, oblong 
and obovate-laneeolate, obtuse with a small muero, with 8-6 minute and 
fine distant teeth, sometimes quite entire, sub-coriaceons, green splashed 
and spotted with red, obsoletely veined, margins red; petioles 8—4 lines 
long, rather stout. Flowers few, scattered, single, lateral from near base or 
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