weed as it is in New Zealand, and the latter confined to an 
elevation of about 3000 feet on Mount Wellington. 
I am indebted to the rich collection of Mr. Isaac 
Anderson Henry, of Trinity, Edinburgh, for this interesting 
plant, which flowered with him in July of last year. 
Descr. Perennial, quite glabrous, branching from the 
root or forming a short rootstock; branches short, slender, 
leafy, prostrate or ascending. Leaves either in radical 
rosettes or alternate on the branches, one-half to one and a 
half inch long, narrowly spathulate or oblanceolate or 
linear, obtuse or acute, quite entire or obscurely crenate or 
toothed, margins sometimes white and cartilaginous. Scapes 
several, four to six inches high, slender or stout, green, 
usually quite naked, sometimes with one or two small 
linear leaves towards the base, one-flowered. lowers very 
variable in size, one-half to nearly one inch broad, inclined. 
Calyx-tube obconic ; lobes ovate-subulate, much shorter than 
the corolla-tube. Corolla campanulate, pale lilac, oblique 
or straight ; lobes broadly ovate, acute, spreading and re- 
curved, about as long as the tube. Stamens four or five, 
subequal or two rather longer than the others; filaments 
broadly dilated, almost square, ciliated, suddenly contracted 
beneath the anther, which is linear-oblong subacute or 
a = two longer apiculate. Ovary two- to three-celled.— 
Fig. 1, Flower with the corolla removed; 2, stamen ; 3, longitudinal section of 
the ovary :—all enlarged. 
