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pumilmn were obtained here, and anotlier new Pittospormn, belonging to a 

 different section of tbe genus to tbe forms already noticed. 



Pittosporum gilliesianum, n.sp., a small sbrub 1 to 3 feet bigb, witb slender 

 brancbes, leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, rarely obtuse, densely crowded, 

 entire, sligbtly membranous, erect or spreading, scarcely petioled, f to 

 IJ incL. long, tV to i incb wide, branches and leaves downy when 

 young. Elowers terminal in small clusters of 3 to 6, rarely solitary; 

 peduncles very slender, J to f inch long, clothed with incurved hairs, 

 1-flowered ; sepals subulate, with membranous margins, finely hairy ; petals 

 subulate, reflexed, slender, yellow with a purple stripe down the middle; 

 capsules erect, ovoid-acuminate, or conical, not compressed, downy, 2-valved, 

 valves membranous, at length deciduous, the nuts usually retaining their 

 position on the peduncle long after the valves have fallen, tips of the valves 

 straight. 



The branches are rarely whorled ; a singular and unique specimen picked 

 by Mr. Gillies has the branches dichotomously whorled, with capsules in the 

 vortices of the secondary whorls. It is allied to P. reflexum, from which it 

 differs in the peduncles being uniformly l-flowered in the erect clustered 

 peduncles, which are never compressed or have the tips recurved. 



I have named this interesting plant in compliment to my esteemed friend 

 T. B. Grillies, Esq., who was my companion at the time of its discovery, and 

 at whose suggestion and partly by whose advice the excursion was under- 

 taken. 



The country between Parengarenga and Spirits Bay is for the most 

 part of an uninteresting character. Pomaderris edgerleyi and Prasopliylhim 

 pi^niliom were observed sparingly in several distant localities, and a showy 

 mUscus, with very large bright yellow fl.owers, was abundant in Spirits Bay. 

 This plant is not mentioned in the " Handbook," but I am informed it was 

 originally discovered by the Eev. W. Taylor and Mr. Colenso many years 

 back. It may have been introduced by a vessel wrecked on the coast. At 

 Tapotopoto Bay a dwarf Melicytm, allied to II. macrophyllm, and identical 

 with a plant picked on Mount Camel by Mr. Buchanan (found also on the 

 Grreat Barrier), was collected. Coprosma petiolata (?) and a j^i'ocumbent 

 species allied to C. cunningliami, but without flower or fruit, were found on 

 the sands, also G. hcmeriana and Sapota costata, 



A diminutive form of GleicJienia flabellata formed large patches amongst 

 the stunted Leptospermiim which clothed the hill sides and elevated open 

 ground, and the I'are Todea africana Avas abundant in open but sheltered 

 gullies between Hooper's Point and Parengarenga. Its rigid charactei' 

 made it of easy recognition at some distance, and l-eminded one forcibly of 

 the European Osmunda, to which it is nearly allied. 



