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Leaves 14-22 cm. long, l-\\ cm. broad, fairly numerous, strict, narrow 

 linear-lanceolate, entire, slightly coriaceous, gradually tapering to the 

 acute tip, marked by close parallel longitudinal grooves or fine., wrinklings 

 above and less prominently below ; upper surface yellowish-green, glabrous 

 or glabrescent, the tips sometimes loosely tomentose on both surfaces ; 

 under-surface, except the midrib, covered with loosely appressed pale-yellow 

 cottony tomentum ; margins more or less recurved ; sheaths about 6 cm. 

 long, thin and membranous, glabrous on the inside, cottony-tomentose on 

 the edges and outside. 



Scapes 1-4, rather slender, flexuous, slightly rigid, nearly twice as long 

 as the leaves, densely clothed with creamy-yellow loose cottony tomentum ; 

 bracts numerous, linear, thin, tomentose except on the midribs, gradually 

 diminishing towards the top. 



Heads about 2| cm. across ; involucral bracts numerous, linear, thin, 

 cottony. 



Achenes glabrous or slightly hispidulous. 



Hab.- — Sealey Range, Mount Cook district, in tussock meadow, about 

 5,000 ft. ; T. F. Cheeseman, Mrs. F. Bowe, and D. P. 



This species is dedicated to Mrs. F. Bowe. a keen observer and ardent 

 lover of our native alpine and subalpine plants, who first directed my 

 attention to it. Mr. T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S., collected it a good many 

 years ago, and he considers it a form of C. Monroi Hook. f. This view I 

 am unable to entertain. It differs from C. Monroi in the narrower, less 

 coriaceous, more acute leaves that are green above and very distinctly 

 grooved or finely wrinkled ; in the yellowish loosely appressed tomentum 

 that clothes the under-surface of the leaves and the scapes ; and in the 

 more slender flexuous scapes. 



Gentiana Matthewsii sp. no v. 



Planta subgracilis, ramosa, glaberrima, annua (?), li-2J dcm. alta. 



Caulis a basi ramosus ; rami graciles, adscendentes vel suberecti, sub- 

 quadrangulares. 



Folia radicalia pauca, subrosulata, spathulata, tenuia, 2-4 cm. longa, 

 + 6 mm. lata, obtusa vel subacuta ; caulina sessilia, late ovata vel ovato- 

 triangularia, subacuta, basi semi-amplexicaulia, 8-12 mm. longa, in paribus 

 distantibus disposita. 



Flores subnumerosi, solitarii, albi, 10-15 cm. longi, ramulos ultimos 

 terminantes. 



Calycis lobi ovato-oblongi, subacuti, corolla persistente fere dimidio 

 breviores. 



Capsula matura breviter rostrata, corollam superans. 



A rather slender branched glabrous annual (?) herb, H-2^ dcm. high. 



Stems branched from the base and again more or less subdivided ; 

 branches slender, ascending or suberect, more or less distinctly quad- 

 rangular from ridges running down from the bases of the cauline leaves. 



Radical leaves few, subrosulate, thin, spathulate, 2-4 cm. long, about 

 6 mm. broad, obtuse or subacute ; cauline 8-12 mm. long, sessile in distant 

 pairs, broadly ovate or ovate-triangular, subacute, semi-amplexicaul. 



Flowers fairly numerous, solitary, at the tips of the ultimate branch - 

 lets, 10-15 mm. long, white. 



Calyx divided for three-quarters its length, half as long as the corolla ; 

 the lobes ovate-oblong, subacute. 



Stamens rather longer than the calyx-lobes. Capsule when mature 

 one-quarter longer than the persistent nearly closed corolla. 



