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dots, and a few straggling white hairs on veins helow. Flowers 

 white, axillary, mostly in pairs, sometimes ternary and fasciculate, 

 and occasionally single; peduncles short, stout, and (with 



icels) pubescent : pedicels slender, 2-24 lines long, each 

 with a pair of foliaceous ovate bracts on long petioles; calyx 

 tubular-campanulate, 14 lines long, villous and ciiiate, with 

 spreading white hairs, largely and strongly ribbed, about 15 ribs ; 

 ribs and margins of lobes coloured reddish-brown ; lobes large, 

 triangular, acuminate, villous on inside; corolla lobes large, 

 flat, spreading, elliptic, very obtuse, slightly crenulate and 

 waved, upper one bifid ; stamens exserted, anthers lilac ; style 

 largely 2-lobed ; stigmas much recurved. 



Hah. Dry grassy spots, margins of woods near Norsewood, 

 County of Waipawa ; 1882-85 : W.C. 



Obs. I have known this little plant for some time, every 

 summer observing it on visiting its habitat, and had supposed it 

 to be identical with M. cumiinghamii, Benth., yet not without 

 doubts. However, on closely examining it this year (January, 

 1885), I have detected several characters (vide descHpt. supra) 

 that are not iu accordance with those of the N. species (M. cim- 

 ninghamii), as severally described by Cunningham, Bentham, 

 and Hook. fil. It is also much smaller in all its parts, except 

 the flowers, which are larger. 



Order LXVII. THYMELEyE. 

 Genus 1. Pimelea, Banks and Sol. 

 1. P. anyidata, sp. nov. 



_ Branches stout, bark glabrous, brownish-red, studded with 

 raised scars from fallen leaves. Leaves (and branchlets) gla- 

 brous, rather crowded, decussate, broadly lanceolate, sub-acu- 

 minate, about 1 inch long (a few shorter), 2 -24 lines broad, 

 spreading and deflexed from base, flat but slightly concave 

 towards tip, sub-coriaceous, green above, sub-glaucous and veined 

 below, midrib not prominent, petiolate ; petioles 1 line long, 

 white, broad, and adpressed to stem ; floral leaves 3-4, much 

 like the cauline but narrower. Flowers terminal on short young 

 brancblets 1-2 inches long, closely compacted in heads of 10-25 

 flowers, white, erect at first but spreading in opening, villous 

 without, shortly peduncled, peduncles rather stout and very 

 hairy; tube infundibuliform, J inch long, quadrangular and 

 channelled, constricted below the middle and again swelling at 

 the base, yellowish above and pink below constriction, hairs very 

 long at base ; lobes of perianth patent, 2-24 lines long, broadly 

 elliptic, sub-acute, sub-convex or raised longitudinally in the 

 middle, with margins slightly incurved, tips resolute and ciiiate ; 

 stamens largely exserted, divergent ; anthers oblong, obtuse, 

 dark orange; style length of tube, sometimes exserted, finch 



