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Capsule cuneate-oblong, equalling the calyx-tube or rather shorter. 



Seeds numerous in each cell (8-10). 



Hab. — Mount Peel and Mount Winterslow, R. M. Laing ; Craigie Burn 

 Mountains, at sources of Broken River, L. Cockayne and D. P. ; Hooker 

 River, Mount Cook district, T. F. Cheeseman and D. P. 



This species is intermediate between E. Monroi Hook. f. and 

 E. revoluta Hook. f. The pedicellate large flowers are like those of the 

 latter, while the erect stems, the subcoriaceous leaves, and the capsule 

 resemble those of the former. The elongated inflorescence, the pedicellate 

 lary;e flowers, the erect habit, and the characteristic cuneate leaves 

 unequally 3-lobed at the tips, form its most distinctive characters. The 

 plant may be easily identified by the leaves alone. 



Euphrasia Townsoni sp. nov. 



Annua ; culmi graciles, erecti, simplices vel a basi ramosi, 4-7 cm. 

 alti, pilis albis crispatis in parte articulatis et glanduliferis pubescentes. 



Folia pauca, parva, in paribus remotis disposita, sessilia, glaberrima, 

 anguste rhomboidalia, dente unico prominente a utroque latere prope 

 medium et lobo terminali acuto triangulari instructa, 6 mm. longa, 2 mm. 

 lata ; marginibus reflexis. 



Flores pauci extremum culmum versus et saepe in paribus oppositis 

 dispositi, majusculi, pedunculati ; pedunculi quam folia ter quaterve longi- 

 ores, gracillimi, pubescentes ; in siccitate subflavido-albi. 



Calyx campanulatus ad tertiam partem 4-lobatus, lobis acutis, angustis. 



Corollae tubus calycem paullo excedens, limbus late expansus ; labium 

 superius 2-lobatum, inferius alte 3-lobatum, lobis omnibus emarginatis : 

 venis conspicuis. 



Capsula calyce brevior ; semina numerosa. 



Annual ; stems slender, erect, simple or branched from the base. 

 4—7 cm. high, pubescent (in part bifariously) with short crisped white 

 hairs intermixed towards the tops with jointed glandular ones. 



Leaves few, small, in remote opposite pairs, sessile, narrow-rhomboidal, 

 with a single prominent acute tooth on either side about the middle and 

 an acute triangular terminal lobe, glabrous, subcoriaceous, margins reflexed, 

 6 mm. long, 2 mm. broad. 



Flowers few towards the tips, often in opposite pairs, pedunculate, 

 large, yellowish-white when dried ; peduncles 3 or 4 times as long as 

 the leaves, very slender, pubescent. 



Calyx campanulate, 4-lobed one-third the way down, acute, narrow. 



Corolla-tube a little longer than the calyx ; limb wide-spreading ; upper 

 lip 2-lobed, lower deeply 3-lobed, all the lobes widely emarginate ; veins 

 distinct. 



Capsule shorter than the calyx; seeds numerous in each cell (8 to 10). 



Hab. — Mount Rochfort. near Westport, W. Townson ; Denniston. 

 J. Caffin (1896). 



The leaves of this species are highly characteristic, and easily 

 distinguish it from any of the other native species. The long slender 

 straight peduncles also form a good distinctive character. It gives me 

 pleasure to name the species after Mr. W. Townson, who has so success- 

 fully explored the floral riches of the West Nelson district, and to whom 

 I am indebted for specimens of a number of the species peculiar to that 

 part of the South Island. 



