Colenso. — On Phranogams. 391 



head with two long linear bracteoles at base ; floral leaves 

 rather numerous, one generally at base of each pedicel, sub- 

 obovate, -Jim-fin. long, on long and very slender petioles. 

 Heads small, obconical, sub |in. long, few-flowered. In- 

 volucral bracts 5 (sub 2 rows), thickish, slightly scurfy, linear- 

 ovate, the 2 outer with tips acute, the 3 inner broader, margins 

 membranous, tips ciliolate. Florets few: ray- 3, limb yellow, 

 10-nerved, 4-notched at tips ; disk- 4, pale, limb 6-lobed. 

 Anthers and styles largely exserted ; style curved, diverging, 

 thick ; stigmas truncate roughish. Pappus few, white, slender, 

 scabrid, tips pointed bifid, shorter than floret. Achene 

 glabrous, slightly striate, dark-brown, sublinear, thickened at 

 top. 



Rob. Woods between Povertv Bay and Tolaga Bay ; 

 1894 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Order LIII. Scrophularine^. 

 Genus 1. Calceolaria, Linn. 



1. C. (Jovellana) albula, sp. nov. 



Plant perennial, bushy, erect, 10in.-12in. high ; stems 

 stoutish, striate, much-branched, rough (scabrid) pubescent ; 

 hairs substrigosely appressed. Leaves broadly ovate, tip sub- 

 acute, lihi.-lfin. long, lin.-ljin. broad, chartaceous, rough 

 subhispid and muricatulate on both sides, dark-green above, 

 very pale green below , with a reddish tinge ; margins coarsely 

 bi- or tri-serrate, their base common, and slightly subtrun- 

 cate ; petioles 9-10 lines long. Flowering-stems erect, slender, 

 6in.-8in. high, yellowish-green tinged with red ; flowers in a 

 compound loose panicle, 3in.-4iu. long, many-flowered; sub- 

 panicles 1-i-in. long, opposite decussate, diverging, subcorym- 

 bose, each with several flowers on slender pedicels 3-4 lines 

 long, Hin. apart on main rhachis, the lowest pair with 

 two leafy lanceolate bracts fin. long at base ; flowers erect, 

 drooping, fugacious ; calyx rather large, clasping (spreading 

 in fruit), reddish-brown, rough-pubescent subhispid without, 

 glabrous green and 3-veined within ; segments 4, broadly 

 deltoid, obtuse and subacute, not cut to base. Corolla sub- 

 orbicular, 4 lines diameter, densely pubescent, white with- 

 out, minutely purple-spotted within lower half ; tube ; lips 

 concave entire nearly equal, the upper a little smaller, 

 the lower scarcely incurved, margins thickened and largely 

 pubescent, almost hairy ; base of corolla within hairy, the hairs 

 dense, long, wavy. Stamens short, stout, white ; anthers 

 orbicular ; style erect, long, exserted ; stigma small, capitate, 

 penicillate. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, shining, tuberculate, tip 

 obtuse. 



