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T 3 gin. long, ovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, thickened at the mar- 

 gin; petiole slender, lin. to 2in. long. 



Scapes as long as the leaves, bearing one to three leaf-like 

 petiolate bracts at the middle, where they usually subdivide 

 into two or three branches. Umbels few-flowered (flowers 

 2 or 3) ; involucral bracts short, linear, acute ; pedicels as 

 long as the fruits or shorter. Fruits turgid, rounded at 

 the back, broader than thick, deeply grooved between the 

 mericarps, T Vm long ; ribs absent or very indistinct. 



Hab. Shores of Lake Te Anau and banks of Clinton Eiver 

 (700ft. -1,000ft.). The small number of flowers in the umbel, 

 the turgid almost ribless carpels, and the leaves three-partite 

 to the base, mark this species off from all its congeners in 

 New Zealand. In habit it much resembles Hydrocotyle mus- 

 cosa, Br. 



Lagcnophora linearis, sp. nov. 



A minute plant, with numerous entire, flat, glabrous, nar- 

 row-linear leaves, Jin. to fin. long. 



Scapes very slender, solitary or several, about twice as 

 long as the leaves, elongating in fruit to nearly thrice their 

 length. 



Involucral scales broadly-oblong with dark-purple tips; 

 flowers as long as the involucre. Heads broader than long, 

 minute, g^in. in length ; receptacle flat, rather broad. Achenes 

 compressed, linear, tapering at both ends. 



Hab. Grassy flats on the shores of Lake Te Anau. A very 

 inconspicuous plant, easily overlooked if not in flower. 



Carmichcelia carta, sp. nov. 



A slender, sparingly-branched shrub about 2ft. high; 

 branches dichotomous, subcompressed, grooved and striate, 

 glabrous ; leaves not seen. Flower-clusters alternate on the 

 shoots, erect, racemose, 8-10-flowered, with pilose peduncles 

 and pedicels; flowers -Jin. long, on pedicels as long as the 

 calyx. Calyx more or less pilose, campanulate, shortly 

 toothed, usually with two small bracts at the base. Corolla 

 rather large, creamy-yellow striped with purple ; the standard 

 longer than the wings, broad, very obtuse. Ovary more or 

 less pilose. 



Eipe pods almost or quite glabrous, when immature 

 generally pilose, £in. long ; beak half the length of the pod, 

 subconical, sharply curved towards the tip ; pods thin, two- or 

 three-seeded ; seeds sjibreniform, usually pale-green with dark 

 spots and blotches. 



Hab. Waitaki Eiver, at Duntroon and Kurow. The present 

 species is most closely allied to C. juncea, Colenso. The flowers 

 are, however, twice as large as in that species, the racemes 



