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lanceolate, acute, narrowed below into a broad flat petiole. 

 Floriferous branches lin.-2in. long; leaves smaller, fin.— fin. 

 long, with slender petioles. Flowers solitary in the axils of 

 the upper leaves; pedicels short. Calyx segments narrow 

 linear-lanceolate, shorter than the tube, acuminate ; corolla- 

 tube very long and narrow, limb broadly expanded ; anthers 

 very large, sessile or nearly so, inserted at the thickened 

 mouth of the tube ; nuts dark, polished. 



Hab. North Island : Crags at Titiokura : Colenso, in 

 Herb. Kew. ; Handbook N.Z. Fl., 196. On limestone rocks, 

 Broken Eiver (1876) ; J. D. Enys and T. Kirk. 



A remarkable plant, which has hitherto been confused with 

 the Nelson E. saxosa, Hook, f., which is distinguished from 

 our plant by its erect habit, obovate-spathulate erect leaves, 

 slender petioles, and especially by its pendulous anthers. The 

 anthers of E. colensoi are inserted on a thickened ring at the 

 mouth of the tube, and therefore, as pointed out by Sir Joseph 

 Hooker, "truly exserted." In this respect it is closely related 

 to E. micrantlia, Hook, f., but the habit is exactly that of 

 Myosotis antarctica, sub-sp. traillii, of Stewart Island. 



It affords me great pleasure to dedicate this interesting 

 plant to the senior naturalist of New Zealand, the Eev. 

 W. Colenso, F.E.S., &c, on the completion of the sixtieth 

 year of his residence in the colony. 



Gkamine^. 

 Agropyron enysii n.s. 



Culms erect, slender, sparingly leafy, lft.— 2ft. high. Lower 

 leaf-sheaths pubescent or sparingly villous, especially on the 

 margins, upper glabrous, leaves flat ; ligule very short, abruptly 

 truncate, erose. Spike 3in.— 5in. long, nodding, narrow, often 

 interrupted below ; spikelets scarcely -Jin. long, usually 

 3-flowered, glumes slightly coriaceous and scabrid, outer 

 glumes subequal, with scarious margins, very narrow, 5-nerved, 

 the intermediate nerves obscure, abruptly narrowed into a 

 stiff scabrid point or awn half the length of the glume, con- 

 cave ; flowering-glume one-third, longer, 5-nerved, abruptly 

 narrowed into a stout point one-third to a quarter the length 

 of the glume ; palea almost equalling the flowering-glume, 

 retuse, hairy, the nerves strongly ciliate ; ovary villous, styles 

 very short ; lodicules obovate - acute, glabrous. Asprella 

 aristata, D. Petrie, in Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxvi. (1393), 272. 



Hab. South Island : Slopes of Mount Torlesse and Broken 

 Eiver ; /. D. Enys I (1877) : Bealey Gorge ; T. Kirk : 

 2,500ft. to 4,000ft., Southern Alps ; N. T. C ar ring ton ! (1881). 



Easily distinguished from any other New Zealand species 

 by its narrow spikes and short spikelets. It greatly resembles 

 large states of Asprella gracile, Benth. and Hook, f., in 



