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The species occm- as yeUow matted ffiamentous branches, tm sted together, and generally strangling the plant
(always if an herbaceous one) which they attack. In England the genus is called “ Dodder,” and / species do
great mischief to clover aud flax crops, with which the seeds are sometimes imported from the Continent. Vai-ious
kinds are natives of the North Temperate zone, a few of the Tropics, two species are found in Australia, and one in
Tasmania.—The only New Zealand species has slender stems, like masses of tangled pack-thi-end, and crowded six-
to ten-flowered racemes i - 4 inch long, of small yellow flowers f iuch long. Calyx with five short blunt lobes.
Corolla marked (as is the calyx) with oblong-linear transparent oil-canals, subcampanulate, with five recurved lobes.
Stamens placed at the junction of the lobes of the corolla. Scales inserted below the middle of the tube, on tbe
thickened filaments, which are aduate with the corolla, broadly oblong, fimbriated, united at their bases into a thin
membrane. Ovary two-celled, with two straight styles terminated by capitate stigmas ; cells with two ovules in
each. CapsuU membranous, two-celled, two-seeded, splitting aU round above the base transversely; seeds albuminous.—
The only New Zealand plant at aU resembhng this is Cassytha. (Name of doubtful origin.)
1. Cuscuta densiflora, Ho o k . fil. ; caule filiformi, racemis dense congestis 4 -8 -flo ris, calyce breviter
5-lobo, corolla subcampanulata glanduUs linearibus n o ta ta, filamentis crassiusculis, squamis la te oblongis
obtusis fimbriatis basi membrana brevissima cohærentibus, stylis 2, stigmatibus capitatis.
H ab. Middle Island. P o rt Underwood, L ya ll.
N a t . O r d . L IX . C Y R T A N D R A C E Æ , Jaclc.
Gen. I . EH A B D O TH AM N U S , Cunn.
Calyx ú iü 5-fidus. Corollæ tu b u s campanulatus; limbo 2-labiato. Stamina antherifera 4, ex serta;
antheris in coronulam cohærentibus, loculis divaricatis. Ovarmm ovatum, in stylum elongatum desinens ;
stigmate obtuso, obscure bilobo. Capsula demum 4-valvis ; placentis u trin q u e seminiferis. Semina albu-
miñosa.
^ The mountains of India and the Malay Ai-ehipelago are the favourite haunts of the beantifid but small natural
famüy to which this genus belongs. One species is found in Austraha, several inhabit the Cape of Good Hope, one
Europe, and a few are found in other quarters of the g lo b e .-A . SoUndri forms a slender, twiggy, very much branched
shi-ub, 3 -4 feet high, everywhere more or less pubescent, with opposite leaves and pretty yellow and red striped
flowers. Leaves petiolate, 4 -1 inch long, broadly obovate or orbicular, repand or coarsely toothed, scabrid on both
surfaces, dull green. Flowers pedicellate, solitary and axillaiy, or in terminal pairs ; pedicels as long as or shorter
than the leaves, without bracts. Calyx of five ovate-lanceolate, acummate, pubescent, more or less united or free
leaflets 4 inch long. CoroUa f inch long, two-lipped, horizontal, with a bell-shaped tube ; upper lip two-lobed,
under three-lobed. Stamens íom-, filaments exserted, their tips arching towards one another. A fe e rs united. Ovary
broadly ovate. StyU long, slender, curved and dilated at the apex, trancate, obscurely two-lobed. (Name from
pa^8os, a twig, and dafxvos, a shrub.)
1 . Ehabdothamnus Solandri, A. Cunn. ; frutex virgatus, ramosissimus, ramis griseis pubescentibus,
fobis oppositis petiolatis orbiculatis v. late obovatis repando-dentatis u trin q u e scaberulis, pedicellis folio
æquüongis v. brevioribus solitariis binisve axillaribus e t terminabbus ebracteatis, sepalis liberis coalitisve
lanceolatis acuminatis. A . Chinn. Prodr. Brovm et B en n ett, Flora Javæ. Columnea scabrosa. B a n k s et
Sol. M S S . et le .
H ab. N o rth e rn Island. Erom th e Bay of Islands, as far south as th e east coast. Ba n k s and Solander,
etc. (Cultivated in England.)
The leaf ot this plant a good deal resembles that of young specimens of Carpodetus serratus, and of Trofhis
aspera, having the same lurid pale green tint.
N a t . O r d . LX. SCROPHULARINEÆ, .Tu.s.s.
Gen. I . CA LCEO LA EIA , Feuil.
Calyx basi ovario subadliærens, 4 -p artitu s. Corollæ iuhviS brevissimus ; limbus cóncavas, 2-lobus, lobo
inferiore inflato. Stamina 2, lateraba. Capmla ovato-conica, septicide dehiscens ; valvubs bifidis, margim-
bus inflexis columnam placentiferam n u d antibus. B en th . in BC . P ro d r.
A very large South American genus, of which upwards of a hundred species are known, chiefly from the west
side of the Andes. The only two extra-American species are the New Zealand ones, and are Herbs, with opposite
leaves and axillary or terminal many-flowered peduncles. Calyx four-parted, adhering to the vei-y base of the
ovary. Cm-olla of two lips; upper lip small, arching; lower large, inflated; tube very short. Stamens two, one
on each side of the tube of the corolla.—The New Zealand species belong to the section Jovellana, which
has the corolla more equally two-lipped and less inflated. (Name from calceola, a slipper ; from the shape of the
lower lip.)
1 . Calceolaria Sinclairi, U o o k .-, herbácea, basi suffratescente, viscoso-pubescens, laxe ramosa, foliis
petiolatis ovatis grosse d upb- v. triplieato-crenatis lobatisve cordatis v. breviter oblique cuneatis subtus pal-
bdis, panicula gracili pauciflora, calycis laciniis ovatis acutis, corollæ p uberulæ labiis concaviuscubs alte
connatis superiore calyce pluries longiore inferiore vix majore apice brevissime involiito. Hook. Ic. P la n t,
t. 561. Benth. in BC. Prodr. v. 1 0 .y)- 206.
H ab. N o rth e rn Islan d . E a st Cape, Sinclair. Hawke’s Bay, Colenso.
This species is so very nearly allied to C. punctata, of South Chili, that it is only to be distinguished by the
usually broader leaves, fewer flowers, and smaller calyx, characters used by Mr. Bentham to distinguish Dr. Sinclair’s,
the original specimens, but which are hardly borne out by others, received from Mr. Colenso. Did the New
Zealand plant occur in South ChiU, it would be referred to C. punctata, but the wide difference of locality suggests
the propriety of adopting very slender grounds to separate them.—AVhole plaut covered with glandular pubescence.
Stems decumbent, w'oody below, simple or branched, 6 inches to a foot high. Leaves petiolate, opposite, membranous,
3-6 inches long (petioles 4 -3 inches), ovate, coarsely doubly or trebly crenate, or serrate, or lobed. Panicles
trichotomously branched, slender, few-flowered. Calyx very small ; segments ovate, blunt. Corolla downy, yellow,
spotted with puiple, 4 inch long, divided to the middle into two concave lips, the upper shortest, lower obscurely
lobed.—This is a variable plant, differing according to size and hairiness with the exposure.
2. Calceolaria repens. Hook. fil. ; licrbacea, pubescens, caule gracili elongato repente ramoso, ramis
prostratis ascendentibusve filiformibus, foliis longe e t gracbe petiolatis ro tu n d a tis grosse dupb-tripbcato-
crenato-dentatis, pedicelbs paucis gracibbus 1-2-floris, calyce semisiipero lobis brevibus obtusis, capsubs
membranaceis.
H ab. N o rth ern Island. Base of Eualiine range, in ravines, Colenso.
A vei-y slender, creeping, pubescent plant. Slems long (8-10 inches). Branches subereet, sparingly leaty,
slender. Leaves opposite ; petiole slender, 4 iuch long ; lamina J - J inch, orbicular, coarsely crenate, the crenatures
toothed. Peduncles axillary or terminal or suhpaniculate, two or three together at the ends of the branches.
Capsule membranous, 4 inch long, obovate, its conical lower half adherent to the ealyx ; valves blunt.—I regret
very much being unacquainted with the flowers of this curious species ; it appears very closely related to a South
Americau one.