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or nearly so above, but pedicelled and diandrous below, the pedicels 

 of these few lower ones 1-2 lines long, a little longer than the fila- 

 ments, with an ovate-acuminate concave bract at their base, and a 

 pair of minute bracteoles at the junction of the filaments with the 

 pedicel ; the upper ones also each having three small bracts at its base, 

 one outer and two inner ; bracts and bracteoles sparsely ciliated ; anthers 

 broadly cordate, apiculate, thick, dark-coloured. Female flowers produced 

 below at base of scape, and for a short distance up it, those at and near the 

 base subpaniculate and subcapitate on short branchlets each containing 3-5 

 flowers on very short pedicels, crowded ; those few above on scape sessile 

 or nearly so and distant, each flower bracteolate at base much as in the 

 male flowers ; ovaries, ovate, glabrous, their 2 calycine lobes bearing a few 

 white strigose hairs ; styles 2, very long, three times or more the length of 

 ovary, subulate, spreading, densely hairy (pubescent-hirsute), hairs light- 

 brown, with some of the fiat white strigose hairs scattered among them. 

 Fruit, globular, about 1 line in diameter, glabrous, bright-red, bearing the 

 two persistent calycine lobes of the ovary, which are divergent and black ; 

 drupes closely compacted into a head as big as a small cherry. 



Hab. On clay banks in forest between Norsewood and Danneverke, 

 Hawke's Bay district, North Island, flowering in November, 1881-1882: 

 W.G. 



Obs. I.— -The broad white and flat hairs plentifully scattered over this 

 plant attracts at first sight the eye of the observer ; under a microscope 

 they present a peculiar vermicular appearance. The pair of minute bracte- 

 oles at the base of the pedicelled filaments of the lower male flowers, — and 

 also within the larger outer bract of the upper and sessile ones, — seem to 

 supply the place of calyx, unless we consider the outer single and larger 

 bract as such, and then those inner and smaller ones as petals. In two or 

 three instances I have noticed a still larger single bracteole (resembling the 

 outer bract) on one of the pedicelled stamens, immediately below the anther. 



Obs. II. — As a species this plant has pretty close affinity with G. 

 monoica, Eaoul ; but, although monoecious like that species, is quite distinct; 

 this is very clearly shown by comparison with his own full description with 

 plate containing dissections, as given in his Choix de Plantes, p. 13, tab. 8. 

 It is also allied to another New Zealand species, G. prorepens ; to the only 

 Tasmanian species, G. cordifolia; and to the Fuegian species, G. magellanica. 

 Order XXXVI. LORANTHACE^l. 

 Genus 1. Loranthus, Linn. 

 Loranthus punctatus, sp. nov. 



A large bushy glabrous shrub, main stems 1-1-J inch in diameter. 

 Branches terete, with light-grey bark filled with fine longitudinal cracks ; 



