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rather thin, green or occasionally mealy-white, opposite or alternate, very 

 variable in size and shape, £-1 inch long, lanceolate to broadly hastate, 

 lobed notched or cordate at the base, acute at the apex, quite entire. 

 Flowers dioecious in the specimens examined, but probably often polyga- 

 mous, small and green, arranged in short and loose-flowered spikes or 

 panicles at the ends of the branches. Perianth deeply 5-lobed. Male 

 flowers usually with 3 stamens, pistil rudimentary. Female flowers with 

 one or two abortive stamens ; ovary depressed globose ; styles 2. Fruit 

 globose, fleshy, bright red, -J inch in diameter. 



There can be little doubt that R. nutans will be found in many localities 

 on our coast line. In habit and general appearance it so closely resembles 

 Chenopodium triandrum as to give rise to the suspicion that, in some cases, 

 it has been mistaken for that plant. In proof of this, I would remark that 

 in the second part of the " Handbook" (p. 739) Sir J. D. Hooker quotes an 

 observation of Dr. Hector's to the effect that the utricle of C. triandrum " is 

 often fleshy." But this evidently applies to a Rhagodia, as all true species 

 of Chenopodium have dry fruit. I am inclined to believe that a plant ob- 

 served by myself several years ago at Whangarei, and more recently on the 

 Taraoga Islands, and which was on both occasions noted as C. triandrum, 

 should have been referred to Rhagodia. 



Since writing tbe above, my attention has been directed to a paper by 

 Baron Mueller, printed in the Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. v., and in which (see 

 p. 310) Rhagodia is included in a list of genera, species of which were col- 

 lected by Mr. H. H. Travers, in the Chatham Islands, in 1871. Unfortu- 

 nately, it seems that the specimens have been mislaid, and Baron Mueller 

 has thus been unable to inform me as to the exact species obtained. I have 

 also learned from Mr. Kirk that quite recently specimens of R. nutans have 

 been collected by his son, Mr. H. B. Kirk, in a locality in the Wellington 

 Provincial District. 



Art. XL VI. — Additions to the New Zealand Flora. 

 By T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S. 

 [Read before the Auckland Institute, 11th September, 1883.] 

 1. Celmisia rupestris, n. sp. 

 Stems long, copiously branched, stout and woody, procumbent or pros- 

 trate, scrambling over rocks or bank-sides ; branchlets ascending at the 

 tips, very densely clothed with closely imbricating leaves. Leaves very 



