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Onagrabie^e. 

 Epilobium gracilipes, n.s. 



A slender, glabrous, decumbent species. Stems reddish, 

 ascending at the tips and nodding, 3in.-5in. high. Leaves 

 shortly petiolate, usually distant, ovate, obtuse or subacute, 

 denticulated. Flowers 1-3 near the tips of the stems ; sepals 

 oblong, obtuse; peduncles of the mature capsule l^in.-2in. 

 long, capsule the same, glabrous. 



Rah. South Island : Broken Eiver basin ; 2,000ft. to 

 2,500ft. ; J. D. Enys and T. Kirk (1876). 



An elegant species, closely related to E. peduncular e, A. 

 Cunn. The peduncles are very short until the flowers have 

 faded, when they elongate with great rapidity, frequently 

 exceeding the capsule. Our plant is not included in Professor 

 Haussknecht's splendid monograph of the genus. 



Composite (Inuloide^e). 

 Helichrysum pauciflorum, n.s. 



Densely clothed with white tomentum in all its parts. 

 Stems 4in.-7in. high, excessively branched below, and woody. 

 Branches nearly -Jin. thick, with closely-imbricating, slightly 

 recurved oblong or oblong - spathulate leaves, with rather 

 broad bases. Heads solitary, almost hidden amongst the 

 terminal leaves. Involucral scales scarious, sparingly silky, 

 acute, scarcely exceeding the pedicellate florets. Achenes not 

 seen. Pappus thickened upwards. 



Hob. South Island: Craigieburn Mountains ; L. Cockayne. 



A remarkable plant belonging to the section Ozothamnus, 

 and bearing the closest external resemblance to H. grandiceps, 

 Hook, f., from which, however, it differs essentially in the 

 solitary head, which is almost hidden amongst the terminal 

 leaves, and the total absence of the conspicuous woolly bracts 

 so characteristic of that species. 



Erice.£. 

 Pernettya tasmanica, Hook. f. Var. neo-zelandica. 



The New Zealand plant differs from the typical Tasmanian 

 form in the rather broader leaves, narrower sepals, which are 

 minutely pubescent at the tips, and especially in the anther 

 cells, which carry a minute dorsal awn at the apex of each. 



Rob. South Island : By the Porter Eiver, Broken Eiver 

 Basin ; J. D. Enys ! 2,000ft. 



Boragine^e. 

 Exarrhena colensoi, n.s. 



A prostrate plant, usually white, with appressed hairs. 

 Eadical leaves fiu.-lin. long, forming a central rosette, narrow- 



