34.0 Transactions. — Botany. 



crowded in much-branched slender axillary leafy cymes, each 

 flower in the axil of and exceeded by a linear bract ; pedicels 

 short. Calyx divided nearly to the base, segments linear- 

 oblong, obtuse ; corolla small, papery, scarcely exceeding the 

 calyx ; ovary stipitate. G. concinna y, robusta, Hook, f., 

 in Fl. Antarc, i., 53. 



Hab. Campbell Island. 



Easily recognized by the pale greenish-yellow hue of the en- 

 tire plant, the minutely verrucose surface of all its parts, and its 

 excessively-branched slender inflorescence, the flowers being 

 almost hidden amongst the crowded leaves and bracts. Some- 

 times it is reduced to a broad rosette of leaves with densely- 

 crowded flowers. 



Eeferring to this plant, Sir Joseph Hooker writes* : " The 

 var. y I have never found in flower, and it may prove a distinct 

 species, though the roots are annual and its leaves are of the 

 same nature as the larger specimens of G. concinna." 



(?) Var. imbricata. 



Stems lin.-3in. high, simple, erect, rigid, leaves at base 

 coriaceous, with a stout marginal nerve, closely imbricating, 

 ovate or ovate-spathulate, narrowed below. Flowers solitary 

 in the axils of the upper leaves, which are shorter and broader. 

 Calyx divided nearly to base ; segments linear-oblong, sub- 

 acute ; corolla longer than the calyx ; ovary stipitate. G. 

 concinna (3, clonrjata, Hook, f., in Fl. Antarc, i., 54. 



Hab. Campbell Island : T. Kirk. 



The entire absence of minute warts, the coriaceous leaves 

 with strong marginal nerves, and the larger flowers tend to 

 prove that this plant is worthy of specific honours, which I 

 refrain from awarding until specimens in a more advanced 

 stage can be examined. 



10. G. antipoda, n.s. 



Perennial ; minutely verrucose on stem, leaves, petioles, 

 pedicels, and sepals. Stems numerous, 3in.-10in. high, de- 

 cumbent at the base, erect. Leaves fin.-lin. long, lingulate 

 or linear-spathulate, obtuse, ascending, rather crowded on the 

 lowest fourth or third of the stem ; cauline distant, narrower. 

 Flowers shortly pedicellate, solitary, axillary or on short 

 3-5-flowered branchlets, closely appressed to the stem for the 

 upper three-fourths of its length, forming a narrow strict tri- 

 chotomous cyme. Calyx divided nearly to the base ; segments 

 linear-oblong, subacute, shorter than the corolla-tube ; corolla 

 narrow, diaphanous. 



Forma pallida. Stems yellow, corolla white. 



* "Flora Antarctica," i., 51. 



