SAXIFRAGACE.E. gfl 



* Novo-Zelandicce. 



1. Weinmannia sylvicola, Banks & Soland. 



Weinmannia sylvicola, Banks & Soland. ined. ; Hook. f. PI. N. Zeal. p. 79. 

 W. sylvicola, fuschioides, & betulina, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal, in Ann. Nat. Hist 2 

 p. 322. ' 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



The three forms, considered as species by Cunningham, occur in 

 the collection. There are no specimens absolutely referable to W. 

 racemosa, Linn. f. : but several approach it so closely as to render it 

 probable, as Dr. Hooker suggests, that all belong to one species; 

 which in that case should bear the last-mentioned name. — Dr. Hooker 

 has shown that the character of Don's genus Leiospermum rests on an 

 erroneous observation, so far as respects the New Zealand species. I 

 may extend the remark to the species from the Society Islands, and 

 also to the Ackama roscefolia. 



2. Weinmannia (Ackama) roscefolia. (Tab. 84.) 



W. arhorea; ramulis petiolisque velutino-puhescentibus ; foliolis S-S-jugis 

 cum imparl ellipticis drgute serratis ; paniculis decompositis paten- 

 tibus ; floribus subsessilibus minimis peyitameris ; petalis lineari-spa- 

 thidatis calycem vix superantibus ; capsula ovata turgida hirta; semi- 

 nibus ovoideis undique crinitis. 



Ackama rosa>folia, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal, in Ann. Nat. Hist. 2, p. 358 ; Hook f. 

 Fl. N. Zeal. p. 79. 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



Tree 30 or 40 feet high; the young branchlets, petioles, &c, cine- 

 reous or fulvous with a soft velvety pubescence. Stipules interpetiolar, 

 ovate, caducous. Petioles with the elongated rhachis from 2 to 10 

 inches long, terete. Leaflets 3 to 8 pairs and an odd one, elliptical or 

 oblong, from one to 2 h inches in length, or the lower smaller and 





