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style long, slender, flexuous, persistent ; stioma simple. Cap- 

 sule didymous, subpyriform, turgid, nearly t^Yice as long as 

 calyx (one specimen tri- celled). Seeds numerous, broadlv 

 elliptic-obovate, sliglitly tui'gid, dull-yellowish. 



Hab. Euahine Mountain-range, east side: Mr. A. 01 sen ; 

 1894-95. 



Ohs. I. The affinities of this neat little species are witli 

 V. hidioillii and V. Ij/allii, diifering, ho\Yever, from both in 

 several characters. 



II. Named after its discoverer, Mr. A. Olsen, of South 

 Norsewood, a zealous collector and lover of plants, as many 

 of them detected by him and described by me in this and in 

 several preceding volumes of the " Transactions of the Nev; 

 Zealand Institute " bear ample witness. Of this genus, 

 this species, with others, and many other plants from the 

 mountain - ranges, flourish admirably in his well - stocked 

 garden, the proximity to the mountain and its altitude being 

 so suitable. 



8. V . viarginata, sp. nov. 



A small shrub(?) (two specimens received by post) ; young 

 branchlets Bin. long, simple, leafy alike throughout, bark pale- 

 green, densely pubescent. Leaves decussate, spreading not 

 crowded, 3 lines apart, broadly lanceolate, lin. long, 4 lines 

 wide, tips acute produced, bases abrupt subtruncate, cliarta- 

 ceous, bright-green on both sides, glabrous, not flat, slightly 

 revolute ; margins entire, hairy, their extreme lateral edges 

 minutely and thickly pubescent, hairs greyish; midrib sunk 

 and finely pubescent above, very prominent below, excurrent, 

 thickened and subscaberulous at tip ; petioles 1 line long, 

 stout, broad, glabrous, their bases half -clasping and semi- 

 connate. Flowers rather numerous, terminal in small close 

 corymbs l-|in.-2in. diameter, also axillary and subterminal in 

 short deltoid distichous loose racemes, l|^in. long and lin. 

 wide at base, 5-jugate ; pedicels patent, 1-J- lines long, glabrous 

 (sometimes finely but thickly puberulent), each with a small 

 linear-ovate bract at base minutely ciliolate (also sepals). 

 Sepals 4, large, half as long as capsule, ovate-acute, spreading. 

 Corolla large, sub iin. diameter, tube, very short or 0, throat 

 wide ; lobes 4, suborbicular, entire, the lowermost one only a 

 little smaller, largely veined ; colour white shghtly dashed 

 with lilac. Stamens included, stout; anthers cordate, obtuse, 

 (lark-purple. Style 2 lines long, slender, curved ; stigma 

 small, simple. Capsule (immature) slightly inflated, broadly 

 ovoid, 3 lines long. Seeds oblong-obovoid, turgid, glabrous, 

 pale. 



Hab. From garden of Mr. A. Wall, Porirua, near Welling- 

 ton (per Mr. B. G. Harding) ; 1895. 



