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flowering at Kaitaia from the 10th September to the 25th September, 
while C. minor blooms during October and the early part of November. 
l accept C. exigua, therefore, as differing from C. minor in its much 
smaller size and more slender habit; in the smaller flowers; in the 
sepals and petals being narrow-lanceelate and acuminate, instead of 
linear and obtuse as in C. minor; and in the middle lobe of the lip 
having only one stipitate gland on each side, whereas C. minor has 
several. 
1006. Celmisia coriacea Hk. f. var. stricta Cockayne, |. c, p. 252. — 
Caules multiramosi, folia typo rigidiora supra valde argentea basim 
versus sensim angustata, — New Zealand: South Island: Southland— 
Forming at and above 900 m altitude continuous silvery masses on the 
hill-sides, which extend as far as the eye can see, and give a distinctive 
colour to the slopes even at a considerable distance. Takitimu Moun- 
tains. L. C. — This variety branches more than the type, so that one 
plant may consist of more than thirteen rosettes, each 62 cm high, and 
the whole 1,9 m in diameter. The leaves are narrower and more rigid 
thaa those of the type, extremely silvery on the upper surface, the mar- 
gins strongly recurved, and the lamina gradually tapers above in a 
long acute apex and below into the comparatively narrow petiole. The 
silvery pellicle of the upper leaf-surface of C. coriacea decreases con- 
siderably in plants grown under lowland-garden conditions, but, so far 
as plants in cultivation with me go, those of this variety still remain 
much more silvery than those from the Hanmer mountains, both being 
planted at about the same time. The typical form of C. coriacea is 
present in the wetter mountains to the west of the Takitimus, so the 
distribution of the two forms is analogous with that of Gaya ribifolia 
and G, Lyallii (Trans. N. Z. Inst., vol. 44, p. 38; 1912). 
1007. Ranunculus Baughani D. Petrie, |. c., p. 265. — Planta tota pilis 
flavido-albidis appressis molliter villosa. — Folia radicalia pauca (?), 
petiolata, 4—5 cm longa; petiolus crassiusculus, + 2 cm longus; la- 
mina late ovato-deltoidea, 2 cm longa, 2!/, cm lata, tripinnatisecta; seg- 
menta ultima brevia, angusta, acuta v. subacuta; caulina pauca, con- 
gesta, bracteis similia, subsessilia, radicalibus minora minusque secta. 
— Seapus crassitudine medioeri, circa 8 cm altus, apicem versus ad 
tres ramos 1-floriferos edens. — Flores breviter pedicellati, 1'/,—2 cm 
in diam., laete flavi. — Sepala 5, petalis fere aequilonga, lata, obtusa, 
tenuia, pallida, plurinervata, extra parce villosa. — Petala 10, apice 
rotundata, basim versus cuneato-angustata, plurinervata. — Stamina et 
Pistilla plurima. —  Achenia matura haud visa. — New Zealand: 
— Mount Balloon (Te Anau—Milford Track). — The plant has its 
nearest ally in R. sericophyllus Hook. f., in which, however, the scapes 
are always 1-flowered. ; 
1008. Epilobium rostratum Chees. var. pubens D. Petrie, l. c., p. 265. 
— Planta typo humilior magisque diffusa, caulibus foliis capsulisque 
valde pubescentibus, — New Zealand. — Dry ground in Awa- 
