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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. 

 Order XXXVI. LOEANTHAGE^l. 

 Genus 1. Loranthus, Linn. 

 1. Loranthus poly chroa, sp. nov. 



A glabrous spreading shrub of irregular horizontal growth ; branches 

 extending 2-3 feet. Leaves 2-2£ 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. 

 Kacemes erect, about 1 inch long, 12-16-flowered ; peduncle quadrangular, 

 stout, taperhig ; 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.G. 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. 



Order XXXVII. CAPKIFOLIACEiE. 

 Genus 1. Alseuosmia, A. Cunn. 

 1. Alseuosmia imsilla, 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, 1-2 J inches long, oblong 

 and obovate-lanceolate, obtuse with a small rnucro, with 3-6 minute and 

 fine distant teeth, sometimes quite entire, sub-coriaceous, green splashed 

 and spotted with red, obsoletely veined, margins red ; petioles 3-4 hues 

 long, rather stout. Flowers few, scattered, single, lateral from near base or 



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