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PrasophylliLm colensoi. 

 Microlcena polynoda. 

 Symenopliyllum lyallii. 



Ozothamnus glomeratus, usually found on dry hills, is most abundant at 

 the sea level, but has not been observed above 1,600 feet. 



Hyjnenophyllum lyallii attains its greatest elevation, 2,000 feet. 



Ijoxsoma cunningTiamii observed slightly under 1,000 feet. 



Naturalized plants are found in abundance from the sea level to the 

 crest of the ranges. Nearly one hundred species were identified, only one of 

 the number, Nepeta cataria, v^-hich is abundant at Whangapurapura Bay, 

 not having been previously seen on the main land. In some localities, 

 Cyperus %<^stulatus, and one or two plants of equally coarse growth, are the 

 only forms able to hold their ground against the mallows, chamomile, thistle, 

 docks, and grasses of the northern hemisphere. 



New oe Critical Species, Vaeiations, etc. 



Clematis indivisa, Willd. — A form Avith decompound leaves is not 

 uncommon. 



[Melicytus ?] Hymenanthera latifolia, var. tasmanica. — A dwarf bush or 

 straggling shrub, 2 to 10 feet high. Leaves close set, obovate, narrowed 

 into rather stout petioles, 2 to 3 inches long, distantly crenate, or serrate, 

 finely reticulate on both surfaces ; peduncles in axillary f a-scicles, i to | inch 

 long, \\dth two minute opposite bracts about the middle, erect or decurved ; 

 calyx persistent, 5-lobed ; lobes obtuse ; fruit nearly globose, tipped with 

 the remainder of the style, 2-seeded ; flowers not seen. 



Originally discovered in the Northern Island by Mr. Colenso ; possibly a 

 form of M. macropliyllus. 



Pittospon'uVi [n.s.] huttonianum, n.s. — A somewhat irregularly-branched 

 shrub or small tree, 12 to 25 feet high, vfith black or dark brown bark ; 

 young branches slender, and with the leaves and petioles clothed with white 

 floccose tomentum ; leaves alternate, oblong or ovate, obtuse or acute, rarely 

 acuminate, 3 to 5 inches long, slightly coriaceous Avhen old ; petioles slender, 



1- to f inch long ; flowers not seen ; peduncles very slender, erect, | to 

 f inch long, solitary, axillary, downy, rarely on a short leafy pedicel ; capsules 



2- to 3-valved, downy. 



Very distinct from any described New Zealand species. 



^ittosporum [n.s.?] virgatum, n.s. — A slender tree, 20 to 25 feet high; 

 branches twiggy ; leaves alternate, lanceolate, or ovate, or obovate, acute, 

 margins entire, or irregularly crenate, or sinuate, or variously lobed ; leaves 

 and young branches clothed with silky ferruginous hairs on both surfaces ; 

 flowers not seen ; peduncles very short, coarsely pubescent, terminal, solitary, 



