Art. XXXV.—New New-Zealand Plants.* From the Journ. of Botany, Vol. IX., p. 104, April, 1880.

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Art. XXXV.—New New-Zealand Plants.* From the Journ. of Botany, Vol. IX., p. 104, April, 1880. By Dr. S. Berggren. Hon. Mem. N.Z. Inst. Communicated by G. M. Thomson, F.L.S. [Read before the Otago Institute, 29th June, 1880.] Phyllachne haastii, Berggr. Leaves imbricating at the oblong plano-convex base, semi-terete, scarcely thickened at the apex, with a simple nerve, upper half of the column exserted, stigmatic lobes oblong, recurved, capsule turbinate, seeds 6–12 on the central undivided placenta. Kelly's Hill, Canterbury Alps. This is the plant which I referred to P. colensoi, Hook f., in Lund's “Physiograph. Sältskaps Minnesskrift,” 1878, tab. III., figures 1–27. From that plant this is distinguished by the dull olive-green leaves, the upper half of which is terete, and not swollen at the tips. The single nerve is unbranched, whereas in P. colensoi there is a lateral branch on each side. The seeds are few in number, and the upper part of the placenta is not divided into two branches as in that species.

Dracophyllum kirkii, Berggr. Shrubby; leaves patent, fascicled, with a sheathing base, dilated from above, not auricled, narrowed, broadly concave, truncate or mucronate at the apex, glaucous above, striate below; flowers solitary, shortly pedicelled, 2–3-bracteate, bracts and sepals ovate, acuminate, ciliated on the margins, filaments longer than the anthers, fastened all the way below the middle. I wrongly referred (l.c. tab. IV., fig. 1—11) this plant to D. uniflorum, Hook f. It is distinguished from all the other species of this genus with solitary flowers by the shape of the leaves, which are almost canaliculate, and like the leaves of those species which have compound inflorescence, especially D. strictum. The relative length of the anthers and filaments, as well as the point of insertion of the stamens, presents some difference in this species from both divisions of the genus. Mount Torlesse, in Canterbury Alps. Carex buchanani, Berggr. Reddish-brown; culms cæspitose, graceful, strong, leaves subequal to the culm or longer, tenacious, semiterete, scabrid on the margin; bracts exceeding the culm, the lower sheathing, the upper not sheathing; spikes 5–6, oblong, the lowest distant from the others which are approximate, the terminal one cylindrical male, the rest female or male at the very base, scales obovate, at length hispido-cuspidate, pale, membraneous, torn at the margin, perigynia elliptical, plano-convex, beaked, beak bifid, and with its upper margin ciliated, serrate, purple-spotted, nerveless, glabrous, covered by the scale, stigmas 2. (C. tenax, Berggr., l.c. tab. VII., fig. 1–7—a name already used for another species). Distinguished from C. raoulii, Boott, by the very tenacious semiterete leaves, the terminal spikelet without female flowers, and the nerveless glabrous utricle.