carefully all the spécies of Exarrhena (of which there are 
five) with all the New Zealand ones of Myosotis, and the 
result is a character which has been overlooked by Brown 
and all subsequent authors—that whereas the filaments 
in Myosotis are inserted in the throat of the corolla, some 
way down below the glands at the mouth of the tube 
between which the anthers lie (or point), in Hxarrhena 
the stamens are inserted at the mouth itself, between the 
glands, and are therefore wholly exserted. There is great 
variation in the insertion of the stamens of the New Zea- 
land species of Myosotis and in the length of their 
filaments, much greater than in the European species of 
the genus, and the anthers are sometimes partially ex- 
serted, as in M. capitata, but the insertion of the filaments 
is in all far within the tube. In like manner in Exarrhena, 
the filaments vary greatly in length, but are never inserted 
between the faucial glands. 3 
Seeds of M. macrantha were received at Kew, in 1891, 
from J. D. Enys, Esq., with the information that they had 
been collected in the Chatham Islands to the eastward of 
New Zealand. Plants raised from them flowered in a cold 
frame in September, 1892. Mr. Watson informs me that 
they require shade from bright sunlight, otherwise the 
leaves scorch. In New Zealand the species appear to be 
common throughout the hills of the southern island, having 
been collected at an elevation of three thousand to four 
thousand five hundred feet in various localities from the 
Nelson province in the north to Otago in the south. It 
is very sweet scented.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and styles; 2, corolla laid open; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, carpels 
and base of style :—al/ enlarged. 
