94 TransacHone. 



I am informed that this was one of the many good things originally dis- 

 covered in the Northern Island by Mr. Colenso, and more recently by Dr. 

 Hector and Mr. Buchanan, but I am ignorant how far these gentlemen may 

 agree on the question of its distinctness from _D. colensoi, with which it has 

 been confused, and from which it differs (according to the descrij^tion of that 

 species in the " Handbook of the jSTew Zealand Flora") in its larger size, red 

 wood, large linear leaves (which greatly resemble a Ficea), in the appressed 

 small leaves, and in the aggregated faintly-ribbed nuts, which are uninverted 

 in all stages of growth. 



Phyllocladus glauca, n.s. — A remarkably distinct and handsome dioecious 

 tree, 20 to 30 feet high, rarely higher, sparingly branched, branches often 

 whorled, very stout. Phyllodes distichous or scattered, 1 to 3 inches long, 

 often arranged in a rachis 6 to 12 inches long, and thickly clustered at 

 the tips of the branches, broad, excessively coriaceous, with large coarse 

 teeth, or waved or lobed, margins slightly recurved : male catkins 1 inch 

 long, on stout erect jjeduncles, 1 to 1|- inch long, thickly set amongst the 

 recurved scales and phyllodes at the tips of the branches ; receptacles aggre- 

 gated in shortly-stalked rounded clusters of from 5 to 18, the size of a hazel 

 nut, with a minute scale on th^ rachis, or more rarely a depauperated 

 phyllode ; usually distiehously arranged, in from 6 to 16 clusters on a main 

 rachis, with or without one or more phyllodes at the apex. Nuts from 5 to 

 18 on each cluster, rounded on the back and polished, with compressed edges. 

 A very distinct species : certainly the most handsome of the New Zealand 

 pines. Fruiting specimens, collected at the sea level at Omaha, were for- 

 wai'ded to Dr. Hooker somewhat more than a year ago. He at once indorsed 

 the collector's opinion as to its distinctness, although its dioecious character 

 was not even suspected at that time, and is only established by the present 

 specimen from the Great Barrier, where it occurs at an elevation of 2,000 

 feet. 



ScJicenus [n.s.] tenuis, n.s. — A slender-groAving species, apparently inter- 

 mediate between S. tendo and S. ^ociuciflorus, is found on several places on the 

 island and elsewhere, but specimens have not been procured in a fit state for 

 description. 



Galmia [?] fauciflora, n.s. — A plant apparently allied to G. procera, is 

 found in Avoods, height 1 to 3 feet, sparingly branched, branches pendulous ; 

 nut very large, shining, red, transversely grooved within. 



Gahnia elenocarpa, H.f . — Imperfectly described in the " Handbook " as 

 G. xantliocarpa, often attaining the height of 9 to 12 feet, with long involute 

 leaves and drooping branches, nuts large, black, transversely furrowed within. 

 A noble lawn plant. 



