xl Appendix. 



North Island- — Hokianga to Wairoa (East), and Thames Goldfield, but 

 local ; Great Barrier Island. 



OEGHIDACEiE. 



Cori/santhes clieesemannii, Hook, f., Ic. PI., t. 1,120 ; Kirk, Trans. N.Z. 

 Inst,, III., p. 180. 



The only New Zealand species belonging to the typical section of the 

 genus. 



North Island — Titirangi ; Te Whau ; Eemuera. 



Naiades. 

 Potamor/eton poh/gonifoUus, Pourret ; Kirk, Trans. N.Z. Inst., III., p. 166. 



North Island — Great Omaha ; Papakura, etc. South Island — Marl- 

 borough ; Southland. 



Zannichellia preissii, F. Mueller. 



Lepilcena lyreissii, Mueller; Frag. Pliyt. Aust., VIII., p. 217. 



Baron v. Miieller refers the Zannichellia jidlnstris of my Botany of the 

 Waikato (Trans. N.Z. Inst., III., p. 143) to this species, characterized by 

 the ternary arrangement of the female flowers, each with a separate bract, 

 and of the fruit " which altogether agrees with that of AltJmiia," as weU as 

 in the cupular trilobate male perianth, and monadelphous anthers. 



It is probable that we have more than one form in the colony. 

 Zostera nana, Eoth., var. miieller i ; Kirk, Trans. N.Z. Inst., p. 392. 

 Z. muelleri, Irmiscli. 



North Island — Port Nicholson. 



LlLIACE^. 



CorchjUne "hookeri," Kirk; Trans. N.Z. Inst., V., p. 244. 



North Island — Hauraki Gulf ; Euahine Mountains ; Mount Egmont ; 

 Eimutaka. 



Astelia cunninghamii, Hook, f., var. hookeriana; Kirk, Trans. N.Z. Inst., 

 IV., p. 244. 

 North Island — Little Barrier Island ; near Auckland. 



Astelia grandis, Hook, f., MS. ; Kirk, Trans. N.Z. Inst., IV., p. 245. 

 North and South Islands — In marshy places. 



Astelia trinervia, Kirk ; Trans. N.Z. Inst., IV., p. 246. 

 North Island — In forests. North Cape to Taupo. 



Melanthacej;:. 

 Anguillana novae-zelandise, Hook, f., MS. 



A small bulbous herb ; bulb tunicate ; scape 1-2 inches high, clothed 

 with the persistent sheathing bases of old leaves; leaves 2, narrow linear, 

 sheathing, much longer than the scape ; flower solitary, perianth leaves 6, 

 with three raised linear bands ; stamens 6 ; ovary trigonous, obtuse, styles 

 recurved. 



