T. Kibe. — On the Netv Zealand Species of Colobanthus. 357 



Hah. South Island : Interior of Otago ! J. Buchanan. 

 I have only a few scraps of this interesting form, picked 

 from amongst other plants in Mr. Buchanan's herbarium. 



4. C. canaliculatus, n.s. 



A small tufted much-branched plant, fin. high, branches 

 spreading. Leaves patent or slightly recurved, T %in. long, 

 canaliculate, with stout marginal nerves, sharply apiculate. 

 Flowers fin. long, on very short stout pedmicles, axillary or 

 terminating short lateral branchlets ; sepals 5, ovate, acute or 

 subi m; e, equalling the capsule. Disc thickened. 



Hab. South Island : Central Ota°:o. J. Buchanan! 



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5. C. repens, Colenso. In Trans. N.Z.Inst., xix. (1886), 260. 

 A small plant forming a matted turf, branches creeping, 



3in.-4in. long. Leaves about Jin. long, subulate with acicular 

 tips, not rigid, spreading, green. Scapes slightly exceeding 

 the leaves ; sepals 4, broadly ovate, shorter than capsule, 

 slightly margined. 



Hab. North Island : Near Norsewood, Hawke's Bay. 



I have not seen specimens of this, which appears to be 

 intermediate between G. mitcllcri and G. quitensis. I have 

 ventured to abridge Mr. Colenso's original description. 



6. C. brevisepalus, n.s. Plate XXVIIe. 



Tufted, rigid, -Jin.-liu. high, much - branched. Leaves 

 densely imbricated, J^in.-J-^in. long, linear-subulate, with a 

 broad base, concave above, rounded below, obtuse, mucronate. 

 Flowers terminal, sunk amongst the leaves; sepals 5, narrow- 

 ovate, convex or almost keeled, mucronate, slightly exceeding 

 the capsule. 



Hab. South Island : Mount Mowatt, Awatere ; 4,000ft. ; 

 T. Kirk. Gorge Creek and Kurow, Otago; D. Pctrie ! 



7. C. benthamiarms, Fenzl. In Ann. des Wien Mus., i., 49. 

 About lin. high, densely tufted. Leaves rigid, iin.-Jin. 



long, channelled above, with short acicular points, rounded 

 below. Peduncles very short, flowers distinctly exceed- 

 ing the terminal leaves. Sepals 5, ovate-subulate, mucro- 

 nate, rigid, equalling or slightly exceeding the capsule. 

 Disc reduced to a mere line. F. Muell., Second Census 

 Austr. PL, 46; C. Moore, Handbook Fl. N.S.W., 100; Phil. 

 Cat. PI. Vase. Chil., 87. G. subulatus, Hook, f., Fl. Antarc, 

 i., 13, and ii., 247, t. 93 ; Handbook N.Z. Fl.,25 : Benth., Fl. 

 Austr., i., 160. G. pulvinatus , F. Muell., in Trans. Phil. 

 Vict., i., 201, and PI. Vict., 213, t. 11. Sagina subulata, 

 D'Urville, Fl. Ins. Mai. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Par. iv., 618 

 (not of Wimm.). Sagina muscosa (3, squarrosa, and y, larici- 

 folia, Banks and Sol., MSS. in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



