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short, few-flowered, with many bracteoles between the 

 flowers ; the bracts at bases of branches of panicle large, 

 broadly deltoid, pale, conspicuous, with coarse and close erect 

 black bristle-teeth at margins; pedicels stout, curved, sub 2 

 lines long, wdth several (3 or more) small bracteoles within 

 the large and pale bract at their bases. Calyx (sometimes 

 6-lobed), lobes deltoid, glabrous, subacvite. Corolla pale-red, 

 2 lines long, lobes blunt, tips recurved, each lobe with 1 strong 

 middle vein and 3 parallel veinlets on each side roundly united 

 below base of anther and branched above. Stamens sub- 

 lanceolate, slender, broadest near base, thickly muricated ; 

 anthers short gibbous, with each forked awn springing from a 

 single narrow stem arising from tip of anther. Style slightly 

 capitate, penicillate. Capsules small, dry, on long spreading 

 pedicels. 



Hah. Interior hilly country near Taupo ; 1889 : Mr. H. 

 Hill. 



Obs. This species has close affinity with G. oppositifolia, 

 Hook., but its differential characters appear to me to be 

 strong. Its leaves are much smaller, and of a different shape, 

 more sharply serrate wdth hard black prickly points, hairy 

 below, petiolate, and not stem-clasping — which is so promi- 

 nent a feature in that species ; its panicle of flowers is also 

 smaller and much more compact, with different bracts bearing 

 bristly margins, and a larger number of bracteoles; its flowers, 

 too, are larger and coloured reddish ; and its anthers have 

 very differently-shaped awns. 



Order L. BoEAGiNEiE. 

 Genus 1. Myosotis, Linn, 

 1. M. suhvernicosa, sp. nov. 



Plant perennial, ascending, 6in.-18in. high.strigosely hairy; 

 hairs white, closely adpressed, very thick on upper part of 

 raceme ; lower stem woody, subprostrate, much branched 

 above ; branches compound, slender, flexuous, erect, each 

 usually bearing long terminal virgate racemes. Stem-leaves 

 thin, sub-linear-ovate, very obtuse, l^in. long, 3-5 lines wide, 

 sessile, amplexicaul, midrib thick at base, margins coloured 

 and ciliolate ; hairs on upper surface stout, subulate, acute, 

 the leaf at their bases of a different colour submuricated and 

 shining as if varnished. Eacemes axillary, slender, 4in.-8in. 

 long. Flowers 12-24, distant 4-6 lines apart, alternate ; 

 pedicels sub-secund, 3 lines long, patent. Calyx large, 5-lobed ; 

 lobes cut nearly to middle, ovate, subacute, 1-nerved, 2 hues 

 long in fruit, much expanding ; hairy within ; with shining 

 dots at bases of hairs on outside as in leaves ; the base of 

 calyx dark-coloured. Corolla small, yV^^- diameter, pale-blue 



