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the axils of all the cauline leaves, decumbent at the base or 

 erect, finely and densely pubescent. 



Lower leaves opposite, upper alternate ; diminishing but 

 slightly upwards, rather distant, glabrous, membranous, sub- 

 sessile, sharply narrowed at the base, narrow ovate - elliptic, 

 obtuse, coarsely and sharply toothed (four or five pairs of 

 teeth projecting beyond the general outline of the leaf on 

 either side), fin. long, Jin. wide, above pale-green blotched 

 with grey, more or less red below ; midrib evident, translu- 

 cent, secondary nerves very inconspicuous. 



Flowers several (about 6), crowded in the axils of the 

 uppermost leaves, rather small, pink, very shortly pedicelled, 

 pedicels |^in. to lin. long. Capsules slender, very pubescent, 

 IJin. to l-|iu. long; pedicels not lengthening in fruit. Seeds 

 smooth. 



Hab. Mountain valleys of Central Otago, from 1,500ft. to 

 3,000ft.; Lowburn Creek; Obehsk Creek; Mount St. Bathan's. 



This species is closely related to E. alsinoides, Hook. f. 

 It differs in the larger leaves that are not opposite above, the 

 erect stem, the coarser teeth, the pink flowers, and the short 

 pedicels that do not elongate in fruit. 



Myosotis (Exarrhena) oreophila, sp. uov. 



A depressed alpine perennial. Stems few, ascending. Sin. to 

 4in. long, slender, leafy, hispid and grey with appressed stiff 

 white hairs. 



Eadical leaves long-petiolate, linear -spathulate, obtuse, 

 rather membranous, rather closely clothed with appressed 

 stiff white hairs, 2in. long or less. 



Lower cauline leaves like the radical, but smaller ; upper 

 linear-oblong, sessile, acute. 



Flowers in a small capitate cyme, ebracteate, sessile 

 or subsessile, 10 to 16 in number. Calyx Jin. long, cut 

 nearly to the middle into five acute lobes, hispid with stiff 

 appressed or slightly-spreading hairs. Corolla one-half longer 

 than the calyx, funnel-shaped, purple, the lobes 5, spreading, 

 and obtusely rounded. 



Stamens 5, very slightly exserted ; filaments nearly as 

 long as the pendulous anthers, springing from the base of the 

 corolla lobes ; scales obscure. 



Style twice as long as the calyx, slender. 



Eipe nuts not seen. 



Hab. Mount Ida, Otago, 4,000ft., on finely-broken shingle. 

 I have had this plant for many years, but have never been able 

 to find it a second time. While it has some affinity to the 

 Dun Mountain Exarrhena, its nearest ally seems to be M. 

 traversii. Hook. f. 



