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the following year become branches ; these young shoots, owing 
to the near proximity of their axils, appear as if imbricated by 
the stipular appendages, and these axils bear flowers as well as 
leaves. The main stems also appear articulated at each node by 
their very conspicuous red stipules, which are similar to those of 
the other foregoing species. The leaves are 5 to 9 lines long, 
4 to 5 lines broad, on a petiole 1 or Ig line long; they are dis- 
colorous, as in all the others, but with darker immersed ner- 
vures below. The peduncle is 2 lines long, the tube of the 
calyx Ig line, the segments in addition g line long*. 
8. Notophana Toumatou. Discaria Toumatou, Raoul, Ch. PI. 
Nouv. Zelande, p. 29. Discaria Australis, var. apetala. Hook, 
fil. Flor. Nov. Zeal. i. 47 ; — Frutex suborgy alis, glaberrimus, 
ramis tortuosis, subprocumbentibus, cortice membranaceo 
laxo, ramulis difiPusis, horizontalibus, teretibus, striatis, spines- 
centibus, spinis elongatis, patentibus, calloso-pungentibus ; 
foliis parvulis, fasciculatis, e tuberculo squamoso infra spinam 
prodeuntibus, lineari-oblongis, obtusis aut acutis, in petiolo 
brevi spathulatis, integerrimis, glaberrimis, crassiusculis, 
supra viridibus, nitentibus, enerviis, subtus pallide glaucis, 
nervis violaceis immersis ; stipulis minutis, petioliferis, 2-fidis, 
dentibus lanceolatis, erectis, oppositis, et transversim nexis ; 
floribus 4-6, fasciculatis, foliis intermixtis, pedunculo pubes- 
cente, erecto, calyce puberulo, limbo 4-fido, staminibus 4, 
erectis, laciniis dimidio brevioribus. — Nova Zelandia. — v. s. in 
herb. Hook., east coast and interior (Colenso) ; Foxhill (Dr. 
Monro) : in herb. Mus. Paris, Akaroa (Raoul). 
This plant approaches the nearest to Ventenat’s typical spe- 
cies, owing to its very divergent, long and stout spines, and the 
smallness and paucity of its leaves, in which respects they both 
assume more of the habit of a Colletia. The branchlets are 
quite straight, its opposite and almost horizontally-spreading 
spines are f to 1 inch long ; four or more small leaves, and often 
as many flowers, are almost fasciculated upon a prominent squa- 
mose gemma that issues from below the base of each spine : the 
leaves are 4 or 6 lines long, I g line broad, on an extremely short 
and delicate petiole ; the peduncle, the tube of the calyx, and 
the reflected lobes of its border are each one line longf- 
• This plant is drawn in Plate 37 e of this work, 
t A figure of this speeies is shovra in Plate 37 f. 
