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more pilose, the young pods generally pilose, and the pods and 

 seeds nearly twice as large. In C. juncca, Col., the seeds 

 are smaller, rounder, and more elongated. Flowering and 

 fruiting specimens were gathered in the month of March. 



Carmichcelia diffusa, sp. nov. 



A low, slender, semi-erect, branched shrub. 



Branches slender, grooved and striate, narrow, compressed, 

 glabrous. 



Kacemes short, of 6 or fewer flowers, springing from the 

 axil of a prominent white scale. Flowers £in. long, on short 

 pilose pedicels. Calyx glabrous, undulate and jagged or 

 ciliate at the margin which is hardly toothed ; ovary glabrous ; 

 pedicels not longer than the flowers. 



Pods four or fewer in each raceme, Jin. long, ^in. wide, 

 bluntly and broadly obovate, abruptly narrowed into a very 

 short, straight, subulate beak continuous with the upper half 

 of the pod ; inner surface of pod puberulous, not cottony ; 

 replum strong ; sides thick, slightly wrinkled, at length falling 

 away, leaving the seed attached to the replum as in C. 

 australis, Br. Seeds usually solitary, rarely two in a pod, 

 large (jV 11 - l° n g> xV n - broad), subterete, stouter at one end, 

 yellow-brown with dark-green or blackish spots. 



Hah. East coast of Otago, near the mouth of the Otepopo 

 Eiver. The pod of this species is very characteristic. It 

 resembles that of C. corymbosa, Colenso, and some states of 

 C. flagelliformis, Col., but is shorter, smaller, and broader 

 at the apex. The seeds are much larger than in C. flagelli- 

 formis, and are not detached when the sides of the pod fall 

 away. 



Ourisia prorcpcns, sp. nov. 



Stems slender, creeping and rooting, more or less branched, 

 4in. long or less. 



Leaves loosely bifariously imbricate, Jin. long, Jin. to Jin. 

 broad, obovate, crenate, obtusely rounded at the apex, con- 

 tracted into a broad thin petiole one-third the length of the 

 blade, densely glandular-pilose above, slightly glandular-pilose 

 below, not recurved at the margin ; veins distinct on the under- 

 surface. 



Scapes slender, 4in. high or less, slightly glandular-pubes- 

 cent ; bracts in pairs, leaf-like, crenate or shortly lobed, 

 nearly glabrous ; flowers 3 to 6, solitary, on slender petioles 

 lin. to ljin. long. Calyx Jin. long, divided to the middle 

 into five oblong, obtuse, glandular-pubescent, and finely- 

 ciliate lobes. Corolla large, fin. long and broad, the tube 

 nearly twice as long as the calyx. Style very slender, twice 

 as long as the calyx. Eipe fruit not seen. 



