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variety of E, cuncata, its large flower white with a yellow throat and 

 marked with purple lines, is a most beautiful feature of Mount Egmont 

 and other North Island mountains. Other pretty plants of this genus 

 are E. Cheesemanii and E. zealandica. The eyebrights are in part 

 parasites, living attached to the roots of grasses. This habit renders 

 them exceedingly difficult to cultivate. 



To Ourisia, a genus belonging exclusively to South America, New 

 Zealand, and Tasmania, belong perhaps the most charming of our 



FIG. 40. Euphraxift Mourn!, growing in bed of Punch-bowl Creek, near where 

 the Arthur's Pass Tunnel is being constructed, surrounded by Raoulia tenui- 

 caulis. [Photo, L. Cockayne. 



plants. Ourisia macrophyUa of the North Island, and 0. macrocarpa 

 of the South, are the tallest of the New Zealand species, and exceed- 

 ingly handsome plants. 0. Cockayniana looks rather like a stunted 

 form of the latter, and forms large patches on the wetter mountains 

 of Canterbury and Westland. 0. caespitosa, creeping over stony 

 ground, is in early summer a sheet of lovely blossoms. Also very 

 beautiful are 0. sessili flora, 0. glandulosa. and 0. }>r<>repens. 



