Colenso. — On the Botany of New Zealand. 329 



short slender bracteolated stalks (peduncles or pedicels), having many small 

 bracts at their bases, white or pinkish-white, with sculptured dark '(black) 

 emgurate spots or blotches, having a peculiar sunken or burnt appearance, 

 and bearing a calycine crown of 5 teeth ; styles 2 persistent, long, slender, 

 divergent and recurved ; sometimes 2 or 3 fruits spring together ; carpels 

 lunate, gibbous, flattish, rugulose without longitudinal ridges ; seed with 

 plain sides. Flowers not seen. 



Hah. In shady open forests near Norsewood (S.), Waipawa County, 

 1882-3: W.C. 



Obs.—K species having pretty close affinity with P. anomalum, Hook., 

 but differing from that species in its smaller and variously shaped leaves 

 with glabrous (not pubescent) and deeply channelled petioles— in its smaller 

 and differently coloured fruit bearing plain-surfaced carpels and seeds— and 

 particularly in its branches not being densely hairy (" setoso-squamulatis ") 

 as in P. anomalum. P. anomalum is also a much larger shrub ; and I have 

 never once met with it in these southern parts, nor, indeed, anywhere else 

 besides the forests in the Waikato, where I discovered it, 1842 (" Tasmanian 

 Journal of Natural Science," vol. ii., p. 277). 



Ohder XXXVI. LOEANTHACEiE. 

 Genus 2. Tupeia, Chamisso and Schlechtendal. 

 Tupeia undulata, sp. nov. 



Plant a small dioecious parasitical diffuse shrub ; branches long, straight, 

 terete, jointed, 2 feet-2 feet 6 inches long, bark light greenish-grey, some- 

 what scurfy, not smooth ; branchlets opposite, sub-compressed, densely 

 covered with light-brown obtuse patent rigid sub-glandular pubescence ; 

 young leaves and flowers enclosed in dark brown scale-like bracts, 2-4 lines 

 long, deltoid and obovate, obtuse with fimbriate margins, 3-nerved, middle 

 nerve long, lateral ones short. Leaves {male plant) few, opposite, distant, 

 sub-rhomboid and rhomboid-obovate, obtuse, 3 inches long, 2 inches broad ; 

 {female plant) leaves much smaller, sub-rhomboid and broadly oblong- 

 lanceolate, li inches long, f inch broad, sub-membranaceous, not thick or 

 fleshy, green, smooth, not shining, undulate, decurrent nearly to base of 

 petiole ; petioles short, under 2 lines long, and with midrib thickly pubescent, 

 margins sub-sinuate, slightly scaberulous or sub-papillose (of young leaves 

 minutely pubescent-ciliate) ; veins prominent above, veinlets anastomosing. 

 Floivers terminal on short axillary branchlets, panicled ; panicles short, 

 dense, having, in the female plant especially, a sub-umbellate appearance, 

 about 1 inch long, each containing 6-12 flowers, peduncles and pedicels 

 pubescent, sub-panicles and pedicels bracteolate at base, bracteoles linear- 

 ovate, about 1 line long, recurved, caducous ; lower sub-panicles bearing 

 2-3, sometimes (but rarely) 4 flowers each : male flower on much larger 



