CoLENSO. — Description of new Plants. 331 



mucronate, not unfrequently a leaflet is again subdivided into three leaflets, 

 when each lesser leaflet is also petiolulate, and then is pinnate below ; veins 

 as in male plant ; hairs the same, but the whole plant is still more thickly 

 covered with them, golden and glossy; common petiole l-l-^ inches long, 

 slender, filiform ; petiolules 4-12 lines long : jioioers numerous, diameter 

 9-12 lines, disposed in opposite axillary free panicles, 2^3 inches long, bi- 

 bracteolate at or near base ; sepals six, as in male flower, longer than 

 pistils ; anthers (infertile) 8-9, narrow, linear ; filaments somewhat lanceo- 

 late, broad, flat, one-nerved, shorter than pistils, about half the length of 

 the sepals ; lyistils, at first silky, shorter than the sepals ; ijedioels opposite, 

 5-7 lines long, single-flowered, bracteolate at base, lowermost ones also 

 bracteolate about the middle and 8-10 lines long ; bracts and bracteoles con- 

 nate, etc., as in male plant : achenes, 22-26, capitate, sessile, broadly 

 oblong-lanceolate, sub-hispid with short patent hairs ; tails very hairy, 12- 

 14 lines long, flexuose, with curved and thickened tips. 



Hal). — In forests, banks of streamlets, head of Eiver Manawatu, 1881, 

 (same localities as male plant), flowering in October, fruiting in December. 



This, the female plant, bears a generally neater and more graceful ap- 

 pearance than the male plant, owing to its smaller, more regular, and 

 more silky foliage ; like the male plant it forms thick, dense, impassable 

 bushes, often enveloping other plants and shrubs. I noticed, also (this 

 year), that the flowers of the male plant were not so fugacious as I had for- 

 merly found and described them ; which, at that time (in 1879), was no 

 doubt owing to my first finding them later in the season (November) and 

 just after very heavy rains. 



For a full description of the male plant, see " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol. 

 xii., p. 359. 



Order 47='=. APOCYNE^. 

 Genus 1. Parsonsia, R. Brown. 

 Parsonsia macrocarpa, n.sp. 



Plant, a shrub of very diffuse rambling growth, climbing over shrubs 

 and bushes to the height of 12-14 feet ; stem stout, f-1 inch diameter ; 

 branches pubescent with scattered white adpressed hairs ; young branches 

 densely tomentose ; leaves papyraceous, opposite, elliptic-lanceolate (some- 

 times obovate), 2^ inches long (with a few smaller, 1-li inches), mucronate, 

 pubescent, margins entire, slightly revolute, bright green above, pale yellow- 

 ish-green below ; midrib stout, tomentose on both sides, lateral veins oppo- 

 site, nearly straight, parallel and regular, rather obscure ; j^etioles slender, 

 5-6 lines long, slightly pubescent. 



* The numbers here attached to both Orders and Genera are those of the " Hand- 

 book of the New Zealand Flora." 



