528 Tra)isactions. — Botany. 



often fascicled, pedicels equalling the flowers or longer. Calyx 

 nearly equalling the corolla-tube, sepals oblong, obtuse or 

 subacute ; corolla broadly funnel-shaped, tube equalling the 

 limb, lobes spreading, unequal, upper broadly rounded, lower 

 middle lobe linear subacute. Capsule not seen. 



South Island : Westport, D?-. Gaze I 



This has perhaps equal claim to be placed under the pre- 

 ceding species, but is referred here chiefly on account of the 

 subacute sepals. It will probably prove a valid species. 



V. squalida, n. s. 



Erect, much branched from the base, 3ft. -5ft. high, twigs 

 slender, naked below, flexuous. Leaves liin.-3in. long, |-in. 

 broad, narrow linear-lanceolate, acute, often falcate, usually 

 drooping, concave above. Eacemes 2in.-3in. long, -|in. dia- 

 meter, lax, slender, tapering. Calyx deeply divided, lobes 

 broad, obtuse or subacute, ^— ^ as long as the narrow corolla- 

 tube, limb of corolla spreading, lobes short, rounded. Capsule 

 (after dehiscence) orbicular-ovate, acute. 



South Island: Nelson — Matori, T. K., 1877; Wairoa 

 Valley, W. H. Bryant and T. Kirk. 



This species is distinguished from all others with linear- 

 lanceolate leaves by the long and narrow tubular corolla with 

 small spreading segments, as well as by its naked branches, 

 drooping leaves, and inelegant appearance. The only capsules 

 obtained were too far advanced to allow of a good description 

 being drawn. 



V. chatliavnca, J. Buchanan, in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vii. 

 (1874), 339, t. 13, f. 1. 



A much-branched prostrate shrub; stems 6in.-18in. long, 

 branches very numerous, wiry, glabrous, or rarely the branch- 

 lets and peduncles sparingly pubescent. Leaves close-set, 

 sessile or very shortly petiolate, about im. long, elliptical 

 subacute, subcoriaceous flat. Eacemes 2-4 in the axils of the 

 uppermost leaves, -|in.-fin. long and nearly as broad, obtuse 

 peduncles -|in.— |in. long. Flowers densely crowded ; brac- 

 teoles as long as the pedicels. Calyx deeply divided, lobes 

 lanceolate, acute, ciliolate ; corolla-tube ventricose, nearly 

 equalling the limb, broad ; lobes reflexed, broad, nearly equal, 

 the uppermost lai'ger and more rounded ; stamens exserted, 

 shorter than the style. Capsule broadly lanceolate, com- 

 pressed. 



Chatham Islands: H. H. Travers ! F. A. D. Cox I and 

 others. 



Easily distinguished from all other species of this section 

 by the prostrate habit and wiry branchlets, short broad 

 racemes, and the compressed capsule narrowed at both ends. 



