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of tlie Auckland Isthmus, and consider it a form of comparatively i-are 

 occurrence. Small forms of the typical P. tenuifolium are often refeiTed 

 to P. Colensoi by collectors. 

 P. Bwchanani, Hook. £ JSTorth Island, Mongonui, J. Buchanan ; near 

 Mount Egmont. Dr. Hector informed me this species had not been 

 found at Tongariro, as stated in the " Handbook." 

 P. Huttonianum, Kirk, Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. II., p. 92. Varying in 

 habit and station from a laxly-branched shrub to a small tree 12—25 feet 

 in height with strict branches ; bai-k black, or dark brown ; branches 

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

 tomentum ; leaves alternate, oblong or ovate, obtuse or acute, 3-5 inches 

 long, slightly coriaceous; petioles slender, \-\ inch long. Flowers axillary, 

 solitary, or rarely in twos on a common pedicel ; peduncles downy, |— | 

 inch long ; sepals lanceolate, acute, bullate at the base, downy ; petals 

 ligulate, sharply recurved at about two-thirds their length, the corolla 

 never presenting the rotate appearance of P. tenuifolium ; anthers very 

 long, ovary pubescent, bracts at the base of the peduncle deciduoiis ; cap- 

 sules erect, pyriform, downy, 2-3-valved, larger than in P. tenuifolium. 



North Island, Whangarei, J. Buchanan ; Great Barrier Island, Thames 

 Goldfield. 

 P. rigidwm, Hook. f. The flowers are both axillary and terminal. 



North and South Islands ; in mountain districts rare, 



I have received small flowerless branches of sinuate-dentate leaves, 

 collected by Major Mair in the Uriwera country, which may be identical 

 with this plant, and I have collected similar forms on the Cape Colville 

 ranges and in the Kaipara district. 

 P. ohcordatv/m, E,aoul. South Island, Banks Peninsula. 



I am informed by Mr. Potts that the capsule is small, globose, 

 2-valved. 

 P. pimeleoides, R. Cunn. A weak, much-branched shrub, 1-8 feet high ; 

 young shoots and leaves silky pubescent, linear-oblong, scattered or 

 whorled, patent or appressed, acute or obtuse, entire. Flowers terminal in 

 clusters of 3-6 ; peduncles 1 -flowered, slender, silky, ^1 inch long; petals 

 subulate, recurved, yellow, with a purple stripe ; capsules erect, ovate- 

 acuminate or conical, downy, 2-valved; valves membranous at length, 

 deciduous, the nuts retaining their position on the peduncle long after the 

 valves have fallen. 



Sub-species pimeleoides, proper. Much and repeatedly branched, the 

 branches and leaves usually whorled, 1-1 1 inches long, | inch wide, 

 flowers clustered, valves of capsule with tips recurved. 



Sub-species refexum, R. Cunn. Leaves scattered, rarely whorU-d, 



