870 Transactions. — Botany. 



the Handbook of the New Zealand Flora, writes, — " Hector observes 

 that the utricle is fleshy." It is somewhat remarkable that this statement 

 did not suggest the possibility of the plant in question being a Rhagodia 

 since the fruits of all our Chenopodia are dry. 



On examining the specimens of Chenopodium triandrum in the herbarium 

 of the Colonial Museum, I observed specimens of Rhagodia from The 

 Brothers rocks, and other localities not stated, but probably in the vicinity 

 of Wellington. . . 



It is worthy of remark that no fewer than nine genera formerly sup- 

 posed endemic in Australia have been added to our flora since the publica- 

 tion of the " Handbook." They are : — 



Actinutus. 



Rhagodia. 



Poranthera. 



Calochilus. 



Epiblema. 



Amphibromus. 



Liparophyllum. 



Lepilccna. 



Iphigenia. 



Abt. XXXII. — Description of a new Pine. By T. Kirk, F.L.S. 

 {Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, litli November, 1883.] 

 Plate XXVI. 

 Podocarpus acutifolius, n. s. 

 A low growing shrub, 2-5 feet high ; branches lax, slender. Leaves scat- 

 tered, green, coriaceous, spreading, straight, linear, acuminate, pungent ; 

 .midrib prominent beneath. Peduncles of male catkins J"-l" long or more, 

 naked or with one or two short pungent leaves : catkins solitary, or in fas- 

 cicles of from two to five, extremely slender. Involucre at the base of each 

 catkin consisting of four scarious acuminate bracts. Female flowers soli- 

 tary, axillary, on short peduncles, which in the young state are invested 

 with a loose membranous sheath. Drupe (immature), small, ovoid. 



Hab. South Island — Upper part of the Buller Valley : T. Kirk, 1875. 

 Our plant belongs to the section Eupodocarpus, its nearest allies being 

 P. totara, A. Ounn., and P. nivalis, Hook. f. From the former it is distin- 

 guished by its low stature, lax habit, narrow linear leaves, and slender 

 catkins with uniseriate involucres ; it differs from the latter in the slender 

 habit and acute spreading leaves, which are never imbricated, 



