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identical with Forster's plant (M. forsteri, Hook.), which was discovered by 

 him when with Cook somewhere in the " Southern Islands,"* and of which 

 no specimens have been obtained since Forster first gathered them. This 

 species, however, though possessing close affinity with that, bears a different 

 shaped capsule, which is not striate or marked longitudinally as that is, its 

 calyptra also is differently situated, and has different lips, and there are 

 other differences in its frond. 



I have very much pleasure in naming it after the late Sir W. J. Hooker, 

 who established the genus, and who correctly described and drew the 

 original plant in his justly celebrated Musci Exotici (vol. ii., tab. 174), so 

 that the names of those two honoured botanists may remain together in 

 connection with this small abnormal and highly curious natural genus, 

 which now contains 2 species. 



Art. XLI. — Additions to the Flora of New Zealand. By John Buchanan, 



F.L.S., of the Geological Survey Department. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 9th December, 1882.] 



Plate XXVIII. 



Hymenanthera traversii, Buchanan. 



A small glabrous, branched, shrub-tree. Branches rigid, reddish-brown, 



rough, with viscid secretion; leaves coriaceous, alternate, olive-green, 



shortly petioled, f-1 inch long, obovate, obtuse or acute, covered closely 



on the back with small silvery-white tubercles, margins reflexed, venation 



obscure, midrib distinct, stipules very small. 



Flowers very small, solitary, in the axils of the upper leaves ; pedicels 

 short, curved, with small bracts at base ; calyx cupular, entire ; petals •§• 

 inch long, linear obovate or linear oblong, obtuse. 



This addition to the flora of New Zealand was discovered in the bush, 

 Collingwood district, Nelson, by Mr. H. H. Travers, while on a recent visit 

 there. As an ornamental foliaged plant it may be commended, but from 

 its diminutive inflorescence it can hardly claim a place in the flower border. 

 Plate XXVIII, fig. 1, portion of branch nat. size ; 1 a, flower enlarged ; 

 1 b, petal showing glands. 



Metrosideros parkinsonii, Buchanan. 



A large robust climbing shrub with the terminal twigs 4-angled, whole 



plant glabrous. Leaves distichous, shortly petioled, l|-to 2 inches long, 



oblong-lanceolate acute, midrib prominent, lateral nerves indistinct. 



Flowers numerous in robust little cymes which grow from the branches, 



* " In Insulis Australibus." (Forster in Hb. Lambert). 



