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lacerate at tips, with a single acute central lobe adnate on the 

 upper side. Flowers solitary, sometimes two together at top 

 of scape, peduncled. Scape erect, ^in. high, 1-3 on a plant, 

 one central, others lateral among leaves, with a small subulate 

 bracteole near the top, and at the base of the peduncle of the 

 second flower when 2-flowered. Calyx campanulate, 1 line 

 long, finely papillose and blackish (also scape), lobes 5, cut 

 half-way to base, veined, oblong, very obtuse or sub-trmicate, 

 each lobe 5-toothed at tip, sinus broad. Corolla (imperfect) 

 apparently smaller than calyx, and whitish. 



Hab. On sides near the top of Mount Tongariro, County of 

 East Taupo, hidden among low herbace and mosses ; 1887 : 

 Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. I. This peculiar little novelty has some affinity with 

 the small New Zealand species D. pi/gmcea, DC. (also found 

 in Australia and Tasmania), but differs from it largely in 

 several characters — as, in its 5-lobed calyx with the lobes 

 obtuse and toothed, its 2-flowered scape, its want of the con- 

 spicuously large tuft of silvery stipules at the base of the 

 scape (so very striking a character in that species) and in its 

 still smaller size. It is also allied to D. 2ini flora, Willd., 

 another small rosulate species of Fuegia and the Falklands ; 

 from which it also difiers in the shape of its calyx-lobes, and 

 in being 2-flowered, and in some other characters. 



II. Unfortunately, perfect flowering specimens I have not 

 seen. Indeed, these specimens that I have were only pre- 

 served after a great deal of pains and patient labour, for they 

 came to me in little, mouldy, dry, and hard turfs (lin.-2in. long), 

 as cut up out of the black boggy soil in which they grew, 

 and not a single leaf of Drosera was distinguishable, and 

 scarcely anything else, those turfs having been also roughly 

 packed, wet, on the spot, and so dried and squeezed in carry- 

 ing and long-keeping ; hence the delicate and small corollas of 

 the Drosera (and other plants) were all more or less imperfect.^ 

 It was only after soaking the turfs in water, and patiently 

 washing and going over them with a stout needle and 'a camel- 

 hair pencil, that I managed to clean and obtain my specimens. 

 From those turfs, however, I secured more than a dozen 

 plants of the Drosera, but not all bearing flowering scapes. 

 Those little lumps also contained several other minute plants, 

 one of them proving to be a Muhlenbeckia, sp. nov.,''' and the 

 following, which I have also determined: viz., Glaytonia, sp., 

 Stackhousia (?) minima, Haloragis, sp. (probably H. minima. 

 Col. i), Hypoxis, Carcx, sp., some barren mosses, a few very 

 minute Hepaticce, Cladonia, (?) sp. nov., with small black 



* See p. 98, infra. 



t "Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol. xviii., p. 259. 



