3S6 Transactions. — Botany. 



Carmichcdia gracilis, n.sp. 



A climbing or twining shrub with very slender twiggy branches 5-6 feet 

 long, climbing among bushes. Branches glabrous or very minutely pubes- 

 cent, striated, terete, naked and simple below, much branched above and 

 leafy ; hranchlets extremely slender. Leaves numerous for the genus, tri- 

 foliate, shortly stalked. Leaflets broadly obcordate, l-^ inch long ; the 

 terminal one always the largest, undulated on the margins, sometimes 

 obscurely serrate or crenate, bright green above, whitish below. Veins 

 very finely reticulated. Floivers ^-i inch long in 2-8-flowered, loose, 

 lateral, erect racemes. Pedicels extremely slender, straight, i inch long, 

 covered with minute glandular pubescence, each with a very short, narrow- 

 linear ciliated bract at its base. Calyx densely minutely pubescent. Teeth 

 acuminate, ciliated, the two lower the smallest. Corolla white and purple. 

 Standard broadly orbicular, longer than the wings. Keel deeply incurved. 

 Stamens and style as in the genus. Ovary slightly silky. Pod very coria- 

 ceous, nearly half an inch long with a broad replum, wrinkled valves, and a 

 curved awl-shaped beak i inch long. Seeds dark brown, mottled with white. 



Hah. — Site of the city of Christchurch, formerly common but now extinct. 

 My specimens were collected sixteen years ago. It is a very pretty plant 

 when fresh, easily distinguished from the other species of the genus by its 

 slender twining habit, trifoHate leaves, pubescent calyx and small bracts. 

 Aciphylla crenulata, J.B.A. 



A glabrous herb 2 feet or so high. Radical leaves few, 4-10 inches long, 

 pinnate, with broad sheathing petioles. Leaflets in 2-3 pau-s, 3-4 in. long, 

 i wide, linear, pungent at the tips, perfectly glabrous, very finely crenulate. 

 Midrib strong, bright red when fresh, other veins obsolete. Panicle 18 inches 

 long, oblong, loose-flowered. Floral leaves very numerous, flaccid, sheaths 

 broad and membranous. Leaflets three, the two lower very small, narrow- 

 linear, the upper one 3-6 inches long, linear, pungent. Umbels rising from 

 the leaf-sheaths, simple or compound, on extremely slender stalks 1-3 

 inches long. Involucral leaves numerous, ^-l inch long, very narrow-linear 

 and membranous. Flowers and fruit imperfect in my specimens. — " New 

 Zealand Country Journal." 



Hab. — Sources of Eakaia and Waimakariri. — J.B.A. This is a beauti- 

 ful plant when fresh, with red midribs which give it a somewhat striking 

 appearance. It is more flaccid than any other species, and seems sufficiently 

 distinct from any previously described, being however somewhat interme- 

 diate in character between A. lyallii and A. monroi. 

 Stilbocarpa lyallii, Armstrong. 



A number of living plants of the Stewart Island form of Stilbocarpa 

 were presented to the Christchurch Botanic Gardens by the Eev. Mr. Stack, 



