34 Transaction*. 



4. Wahlenbergia Morgani sp. nov. 



Wahlenbergia W. saxicolae A. D.C. affinis ; differt foliis laxioribus 

 minoribus tenuioribus, + spathulatis, pedunculis brevibus, floribus multo 

 brevioribus, capsula breviore globosa. 



A depressed tufted almost glabrous perennial, more or less branched 

 from the root, and often intricately so, when it forms matted patches 8-12 cm. 

 across. Branches up to 8 cm. long but usually much shorter, when elongated 

 diffuse and several times subdivided, slender, leafy towards the tips and 

 occasionally sparsely villous ; older bark pale, soft and spongy. 



Leaves rather close set or (in matted forms) crowded, 1J— 2 cm. long, 

 very variable in outline, orbicular- or obovate- or elliptic-spathulate, mem- 

 branous or nearly so, more or less crenate-dentate, blades glabrous, midrib 

 obscure when mature otherwise nerveless ; the narrow petiolar part thin, 

 considerably longer than the blade, and more or less ciliate along the edges. 



Flowering-stems bearing 1-2 (or rarely 3) shortly peduncled lateral or 

 terminal flowers ; peduncles slender, terete, smooth, elongating in fruit 

 to 1^-4 cm. 



Flowers campanulate, about 8 mm. long and 6 mm. across, pale blue. 

 Calyx glabrous, shortly turbinate : lobes broadly subulate, erect, acute or 

 subacute ; corolla cut for rather more than ^ its length into 5 subacute 

 scarcely spreading lobes ; style expanded towards the top and rather deeply 

 divided into flat lamellar plates. 



Capsule globose, 5-6 mm. long, when ripe marked by blunt tubercles, 

 2-celled ; seeds minute, very numerous, slightly plano-convex in section. 

 (W. saxicola A. D.C. var. congesta Cheeseman.) 



Hab. — ■ Cape Farewell ; W. Townson ! Eoad-cuttings near Eahui 

 (Charleston) ; moist sandhills near Fortrose (Southland). 



The Fortrose specimens grew in pure sand, and have narrower more 

 coriaceous and more strongly toothed leaves than the typical plant from 

 south-west Nelson. The species is not confined to sandy situations, for at 

 Rahui it flourishes in great profusion on nearly vertical faces of hard con- 

 glomerate rock. It is named in compliment of Mr. P. G. Morgan, M.A.,. 

 Director of the Dominion Geological Survey, from whom I have received 

 much valuable help in studying the plants of the Buller district. 



5. Myosotis suavis sp. nov. 



Perennis ; ubique pilis albidis subrigidis dense hispida. 



Caules pauci, graciles, ad 10 cm. alti. 



Folia radicalia late obovato-spathulata, 3-4 cm. longa, 1^ cm. lata, sub- 

 acuta, tenuia ; caulina numerosa, late ianceolata, acuta, sessilia. 



Flores brevissime pedunculati, + 1 cm. longi, calyx corolla subduplo 

 brevior, 5-partitus, lobis subulatis ; corolla infundibuliformis, alba, dulce 

 odorata, limbo in lobos 5 breves rotundatos secto ; stamina corollae tubum 

 haud excedentia, brevia, parva, paene sessilia. 



A low tufted perennial, everywhere densely hispid with short stiff white 

 hairs. 



Flowering-stems few, erect or ascending, slender, leafy, 10 cm. high or 

 less. 



Radical leaves few, broadly obovate-spathulate, 3-4 cm. long, l^cm. 

 broad, subacute, thin, midrib evident ; cauline numerous, usually closely 

 placed, broadly lanceolate, acute, sessile. 



