380 Transactions. — Botany, 



This is the most robust of all the New Zealand species ; the stems being 

 sometimes as thick as a man's little finger. The leaves are sharply ser- 

 rated, never pinnate or pinnatifid, sometimes the serration is confined to 

 the apices. The racemes are always terminal, pods entire, wingless, style 

 exserted. The leaves are more or less succident, and the whole plant emits 

 a strong, unpleasant odour. A form with the radical leaves ovate or oblong 

 on naked petioles is occasionally found. 

 2. L. fiexicaule, n.s. 



Stems numerous, flexuous, irregularly branched from the base. Eadical 

 leaves 2"-3" long, linear-oblong, pinnate or pinnatifid; segments irregularly 

 serrate near the apex. Cauline leaves gradually smaller, linear spathulate. 

 Eacemes lateral, leaf-opposed, each with a solitary flower a short distance 

 below its base. Flowers perfect, petals extremely minute, pods on short 

 pedicels; oblong, notched at the apex. Style included in the notch formed 

 by the wings. 



Hah. — North Island : rocky places near the sea, Waitemata, Manukau, 

 etc. 



This species is characterized by the lateral racemes, which are terminal 

 at first but become reduced to a lateral position by the growth of a stout 

 usurping shoot which overtops them. The winged fruit has the style 

 included in the notch, and the irregular somewhat obtuse serration of the 

 leaves affords a strong contrast with the regular acute teeth of L. oleraceum. 

 I have seen no South Island specimens, but have little doubt its distribution 

 is equally extensive with that of the preceding species. 



In its inflorescence this plant resembles Senebiera didyma, Pers. 

 8. Lepidiimi sisymbrioides, Hook. f. 

 Handb. N.Z. Flora, 14. 



Hab. — South Island : Lake Ohau, Haast ; Mackenzie Country, J. B. 

 Armstrong. 



I have not seen good specimens of this plant, which appears to be 

 dioecious. In two small specimens given me by Mr. Armstrong, the leaves 

 and stem are sparingly clothed with short appressed hairs. 

 4. Leindium solandri, n.s. 



Eoot stout, one- or many-headed. Leaves crowded, rosulate, linear- 

 lanceolate, or obovate, l"-li" long, with short, broad petioles, pinnatifid ; 

 segments often broad, clothed with scattered hairs, glandular. Stems spread- 

 ing, sub-erect, naked, or with a few small entire leaves at the base. Flowers 

 dioecious, petals 0, J fl. stamens tetrandrous ; 5 flowers numerous, pedicels 

 very slender, pod ovate-rhomboid with very narrow wings, hairy, emarginate, 

 style longer than the notch. 



Hab. — South Island : limestone rocks. Broken Eiver Basin, Canter- 

 bury — J. D. Enys and T. Kirk. 



