Petrie. —Descriptions of New Native Flowering-plants . 209 



(pedicels shorter than the calyx), ebracteate, crowded in the earlier 

 flowering stage ; calyx + § in. (4 mm.) long, cut half-way down into narrow 

 ovate acute strongly ciliated lobes with short spreading hooked hairs at the 

 basal part ; corolla funnel-shaped, tube about twice as long as the calyx, 

 narrow below, cut above into rather short rounded lobes ; scales of the 

 throat short and broad ; stamens inserted a little below the scales, reaching 

 as high as the clefts of the corolla-lobes ; anthers narrow, scarcely elongated, 

 almost apiculate, about three times as long as the very slender filaments 

 to which they are attached a little below the middle ; style short, scarcely 

 exceeding the calyx even in fruit ; nutlets (scarcely mature) pale brown, 

 suborbicular. 



Hab. — Ruahiue Mountain-range, above the forest-belt. 



Collected by Mr. H. Hill, B.A., of Napier, to whom I am indebted 

 for sr^ecimens. 



Mr. Cheeseman (Manual, p. 468) referred this plant to M. petiolata 

 Hook. f. The latter is a coastal form, and it is doubtful if it ever grows 

 inland or at considerable elevations. In my view M. petiolata is a purelv 

 coastal form, the montane plants referred to it probably belonging elsewhere. 

 I am not certain of the colour of the corolla when fresh. 



4. Myosotis tenericaulis sp. nov. 



M. annua (?) M. spathulatae Forst. f. affinis ; diflert caulibus primo sub- 

 erectis demum ± late diffusis, 20-30 cm. longis, valde tenuibus flaccidisque ; 

 caulibus foliisque cineraceis ; floribus minoribus ; corollae tubo limbi divi- 

 suras bis terve superante ; antheris anguste oblongis subapiculatis filamenta 

 excedentibus, vix ad faucis squamas breves latas manifestas pertinentibus ; 

 nuculorum integumentis pallide flavidis, nucleo atriore per integumenta + 

 pellucida manifesto. 



Annual (?) ; stems numerous from the root, 20-30 cm. (1 ft. or less) long, 

 suberect below, spreading and diffuse above, sparingly and distantly branched, 

 branches elongated (internodes long), very thin and flaccid, like the leaves 

 ashy-grey, slightly hispidulous with short appressed whitish hairs, rarely 

 nearly glabrous. Leaves very thin, often subapiculate, with evident midrib, 

 sparsely sprinkled with short appressed whitish hairs, the lower surface 

 sometimes nearly glabrous; radical 3-5 cm. ( + ljin.) long, the blades 

 elliptic-obovate contracted into slender petioles nearly twice as long as the 

 blades ; cauline distant, smaller, narrow-obovate, sessile by a broad base, 

 obtuse or the uppermost subacute. Flowers solitary distant, usually opposite 

 the axils of the upper cauline leaves, on very slender pedicels about as long 

 as the calyx ; calyx narrow + 2 mm. (about T \ in.) long, cut nearly to the 

 base into linear subulate segments, sparingly hispidulous with the usual 

 appressed hairs ; corolla narrow funnel-shaped, the tube about one-half 

 longer than the calyx, lobes broadly rounded about one-third as long as 

 the tube ; throat-scales short and broad ; stamens narrow-oblong sub- 

 apiculate, scarcely reaching to the level of the scales ; filaments very short, 

 affixed to the anthers near the base ; style slender, equalling the corolla, 

 and scarcely elongating in fruit. Nutlets shining, pale yellow especially at 

 the thin margins, elsewhere brownish owing to the deeper colour of the 

 nucleus of the seed showing through the rather pellucid integuments. 



Hab. — Inch-Clutha, Clutha County. The exact locality where this plant 

 was collected can be easily found. It is about a mile from the Romahapa 



