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ultra) arctissime confertis trifoliolatis, umbellis quam bracteae multo 

 brevioribus vaginas subtumidas vix excedentibus, fructibus paullo major- 

 ibus oblongis, apicem versus i contractis. 



Small, 12-22 cm. high, with scapes solitary or occasionally two from 

 the same main root. 



Leaves 6-12 cm. long, ± 3-5 mm. wide, linear, pungent-pointed, sub- 

 coriaceous scarcely stiff, striate, thickened along the margins, midrib 

 inconspicuous ; petiole short, gradually dilated downwards into a broad 

 membranous subhyaline sheathing base. 



Scapes rather stout for the size of the plant, ^ 3-5 mm. across, the naked 

 part (as long as the leaves) supporting a much longer spike-like main in- 

 florescence with very numerous (sometimes 40 or more) densely-crowded 

 floral bracts enclosing the umbels, bracts ^ 3 cm. long trifoliolate with 

 rather short slightly tumid sheaths ; umbels both male and female com- 

 pactly branched, much shorter than the bracts. Fruit oblong, rather 

 large, more or less contracted at the top. 



(A. Trailii Kirk, Students Flora, p. 210, pro parte; also A. Traillii 

 Kirk, Cheeseman's Manual, pp. 211-12, pro parte.) 



Hab.~Mo\mt Kyeburn (Maniototo Comity), 3,000 ft. ; Rock and Pillar 

 Range (Taieri County), 3,800 ft. : B. C. Aston ! Arnold Wall ! Garvie 

 Mountains (Southland), 4,000 ft. : D. L. Poppelwell ! Dr. L. Cockayne ! 



The Garvie Mountain plant is taken as the type. 



Var. major var. nov. 



Elatiof, scapo nudo quam in typo ter quaterve longiore, inflorescentia 

 principali scapo nudo multo breviore, bracteis umbellisque paucioribus, 

 bractearum vaginis brevioribus paene aeque latis ac longis. 



Hab. — Moimt Buster (part of Mount Ida Range, Maniototo County), 

 3,500 ft. 



I have authentic specimens of A. Traillii from Mr. T. Kirk, collected 

 on Mount Anglem, Stewart Island, and others that exactly match these, 

 collected in the same place by Mr. W. R. B. Oliver. In the Mount Anglem 

 plant the floral bracts are placed far apart ; the inflorescence is markedlv 

 zigzag, the bracts being seated on the bends ; the bracts are long, few (5-8), 

 and nearly always simple ; the midribs are very prominent, and the space 

 on the underside of the leaves between the midrib and the thickened margins 

 is of a dull-brown colour ; the male umbels have long delicate branches 

 that greatly exceed the elongated sheaths enclosing them ; the fruits also 

 appear to be smaller than in the present species. 



9. Note on Veronica Willcoxii Petrie. 



Though this plant has been in cultivation for several years in the alpine 

 garden of the late H. J. Matthews (now Dr. Hunter's) at Mornington, 

 Dunedin, I have never succeeded in getting specimens in flower or fruit 

 from there. For a few years two plants grew in my garden in Auckland, 

 but they languished season by season, and died without flowering. The 

 flowers and capsules described by me from plants growing in the University 

 grounds at Dunedin most likely belong to this species, but it is highly 

 desirable that flowering and fruiting pieces should be got from plants known 

 to have come from the Lake Harris habitat, where alone the wild plant has 

 so far been found. For the present there must remain some doubt as to 

 whether the flowers and capsules ascribed to the species truly belong there. 



