222 L. Cockayne. 
cut-leaved juvenile form, but ternate leaves are frequent as reversion- 
shoots, » 
10. Dracophyllum politum (Cheesem.) Cockayne, l. c., p. 43. 
D. rosmarinifolium R. Br. var. politum Cheesem. in Manual of New 
Zealand Flora, p. 427, 1906. 
New Zealand, South Island: Mount Maungatua (Manual of New 
Zealand Flora. Stewart Island: Extremely abundant from almost sea- 
level to summits of mountains. 
A somewhat full account of this remarkable plant has been already 
given in Part II (3). 
As growing on the open meadow there is a stout hard woody stem 
about 7 mm in diameter, which branches into very short branches, 
which, again branching several times, finally give off numerous short 
stems furnished with densely imbricating leaves which are about 8 mm 
long, green with orange apex, erect, stout, horny, extremely hard and 
stiff, convex on the upper, concave on the under surface, their apices 
obtuse, rounded, or almost truncate, and the base sheathing and more 
than half the length of the lamina. In sheltered situations long trailing 
shoots are given off, the main stem 23 cm long, densely leafy, and with 
short lateral shoots, which bend upwards. The leaves are frequently 
much longer than those described above, and may taper to a long-drawn- 
out point. The flowers are solitary, terminal, do not project beyond the 
leaves which quite enclose them; sepals acute, cilated, rather longer than 
cerolla-tube. 
By Kirk this plant was referred to D. muscoides Hook. f., but it differs 
in the longer and blunter leaves and general habit. It is also related to 
D. prostratum. So far as all three „species“ are concerned, it seems 
to me that they are much in need of revision with the aid of abundant 
living material. It may eventually be shown, when the variability ac- 
cording to environment is properly investigated, that all three are one 
and the same. On the other hand, I hold the typical D. rosmarinifolium 
(Forst. f.) R. Br., or the plant New Zealand botanists have referred to 
that species, as altogether distinct. 
11. Myosotis albida (T. Kirk) Cheesm., l. c., p. 43. 
M. capitata Hook. f. var. albiflora J. B. Armstg. in Trans. N. Z. Inst. 
vol. XIII, p. 340. — M. capitata subsp. albida T. Kirk in Trans. N. Z. 
Inst., vol. XVII, p. 224. 
New Zealand: South lsland: Eastern, Western, and especially 
Southern Otago. Stewart Island: abundant, and also on the Solanders. 
Subantarctic islands: The Snares. 
A full description of this will be given in Cheesemans memoir, 
mentioned above. 
Large examples are 27 cm tall. Leaves may measure as much as 
14 cm long, with the blade 9 X 3.2 cm; they are somewhat flaccid, 
suceulent, and copiously hairy on the under-surface. The flowers are in 
dense heads, white, 7 mm in diameter, and the filaments considerably 
exceed the anthers. The species, then, belongs to the section Exarrhena. 
