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mucronate, not unfrequently a leaflet is again subdivided into three leaflets, 
when each lesser leaflet is also petiolulate, and then is pinnate below ; veins 
as in male plant; hairs the same, but the whole plant is still more thickly 
covered with them, golden and glossy; common petiole 1-14 inches long, 
slender, filiform ; petiolules 4-12 lines long: flowers numerous, diameter 
9-12 lines, disposed in opposite axillary free panicles, 24-8 inches long, bi- 
bracteolate at or near base; sepals six, as in male flower, longer than 
pistils ; anthers (infertile) 8-9, narrow, linear ; filaments somewhat lanceo- 
late, broad, flat, one-nerved, shorter than pistils, about half the length of 
the sepals; pistils, at first silky, shorter than the sepals; pedicels opposite, 
5-7 lines long, single-flowered, bracteolate at base, lowermost ones also 
bracteolate about the middle and 8-10 lines long; bracts and bracteoles con- 
nate, etc., as in male plant: achenes, 22-26, capitate, sessile, broadly 
oblong-lanceolate, sub-hispid with short patent hairs; tails very hairy, 12- 
14 lines long, flexuose, with curved and thickened tips. 
Hab.—In forests, banks of streamlets, head of River Manawatu, 1881, 
(same localities as male plant), flowering in October, fruiting in December. 
This, the female plant, bears a generally neater and more graceful ap- 
pearance than the male plant, owing to its smaller, more regular, and 
more silky foliage; like the male plant it forms thick, dense, impassable 
bushes, often enveloping other plants and shrubs. I noticed, also (this 
year), that the flowers of the male plant were not so fugacious as 1 had for- 
merly found and described them; which, at that time (in 1879), was no 
doubt owing to my first finding them later in the season (November) and 
just after very heavy rains. ' 
* For a full description of the male plant, see “ Trans, N.Z. Inst.,” vol. 
Xi, p. 859. 
Orver 47*. APOCYNEA. 
Genus 1. Parsoysu, R. Brown. 
Parsonsia macrocarpa, 0.Sp- 
Plant, a shrub of very diffuse rambling growth, climbing over shrubs 
and bushes to the height of 12-14 feet; stem stout, 3-1 inch diameter ; 
branches pubescent with scattered white adpressed hairs; young branches 
densely tomentose ; leaves papyraceous, opposite, elliptic-lanceolate (some- 
times obovate), 2+ inches long (with a few smaller, 1-14 inches), mucronate, 
pubescent, margins entire, slightly revolute, bright green above, pale yellow- 
ish-green below ; midrib stout, tomentose on both sides, lateral veins oppo- 
site, nearly straight, parallel and regular, rather obscure ; petioles slender, 
5-6 lines long, slightly pubescent. oo eee , 
__* The numbers here attached to both Orders and Genera are those of the “ 
