592 Transactions. — Botany. 



4in. long. Flowering-stem 15in. high (perhaps more, speci- 

 mens not having basal extremity), erect, very stout, -l-in. 

 diameter, naked; 9in. to first cauline leaf, thence 2-3 stout 

 bibracteate stems, sub 4in. long; bracts Ifin. long, narrow, 

 sessile, and clasping ; each stem bearing 3-5 flowers, on 

 pedicels 2in. long, also bibracteate ; bracts long, narrow, 

 alternate, sometimes opposite ; the low^er and main cauline 

 leaf large, orbicular (deeply trifid in one specimen), 2iin. 

 diameter ; petiole short, broad, and stout ; hairs retrorse. 

 Flowers large, spreading, forming sub-corymbs, 12-14 and 

 more on one scape. Sepals 4, elliptic, ^in. long, thin, mar- 

 gins very membranous, longitudinally hairy along middle on 

 outside, and very hairy and ciliate at tips. Corolla, petals 4, 

 broadly cuneate, fin. long, iin. wide at top, tips flat-rounded, 

 bright-yellow, shining, veined ; base of petals narrow, thick- 

 ened ; nectary small, close to base, foveolate, with a semi- 

 circular ridge below ; the 3 primary veins from base largely 

 dichotomous, and running subparallel to tip. Stamens very 

 numerous, ^iu. long, flat, 1-nerved; anthers 1 line long, 

 narrow, elliptic, with membranous margins. Carpels many, 

 closely packed, forming ovoid heads (immature), -^in. long, 

 hairy, with long hairy tails, their upper portion having a 

 flattish submembranous margin, tips acute, glabrous. 



Hah. Euahine Mountain-range, east side: Mr. H. Hill, 

 1894; Mr. E. W. Andrews, 1895. 



Obs. This fine plant has close affinity with three other 

 known species from the same alpine locality — wiz., B. ins ignis, 

 Hook.; B. riiahinicus, Col. (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xviii., p. 

 256) ; and B. sycJmopetala, Col. (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxiii., 

 p. 324, and vol. xxvi., p. 313) — but differing from them all in 

 several characters, and particularly in its peculiar and striking 

 shaggy carpels. 



Order VII. Poetulace^. 

 Genus 1. Claytonia, Linn. 

 1. C. calycina, sp. nov. 



A small perennial low creeping herb, subsucculent, gla- 

 brous, rooting at nodes. Stems stout (for plant), branchlets 

 short, about -|^in. apart on main stem. Leaves linear, fin. long, 

 ^ line wide, tips obtuse, thickish, in fascicles of 4-5, stipulate. 

 Flowers terminal on branchlets, 2-3 together; pedicels of 

 various lengths, fin.-lin. long. Calyx 2 large persistent broad 

 sepals, half as long as corolla, concave, much imbricate in bud 

 and in flower, tips rounded. CcJrolla white, 4 lines diameter, 

 lobes obovate, obtuse, incurved, veined. Stamens white, 

 spreading; antbers oblong, red; style half as long as sta- 

 mens; stigmas 2, erect, linear, acuminate, pointed, minutely 

 pubescent. 



