Cih'kayxe. — Notes on New Zealand Floristic Botany. 57 



a lurid-red colour similar to those of C. nana."* Later, in Featon's Art 

 Album of New Zealand Flora, p. 112, pi. 26, fig. 3, 1889, the flowers are 

 described as pale yellow, but the plate shows the colour as fairly bright 

 'yellow marked with a few pale lines. Kirk, in the Students' Flora, p. 110, 

 1899, contrary to his first description, gives the colour as " lurid yellow, 

 veined." Cheeseman, in the Manual oj the New Zealand Flora, p. 112, 

 1906, states that the colour is yellowish-red, and this statement he upholds 

 in the Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora, vol. 1, pi. 32, 1914 ; but the 

 illustration depicts lines on the flowers, the colour of which is not stated. 



The petals of the flower from Professor Kirk's garden are coloured as 

 follows : Standard (on its upper surface) pale yellow, striped with rather 

 dark purple coarse lines which broaden out towards the apex of the leaf so 

 as to stain this recurved apex almost uniformly purple ; the urder-surface 

 has the same pale-yellow ground-colour, but the purple hues are much finer, 

 while, above, they broaden out into rich purple ; at the base of the standard, 

 just above its claw, there is a rich purple blotch. The heel and wings are 

 pale greenish-yellow, stained near their apices with pale purple. The purple 

 is richer upon the recurved apical margin of the standard than elsewhere. 

 Certainly in all the flowers examined the purple was quite as conspicuous 

 as the yellow, and perhaps more so. 



17. Celmisia glandulosa Hook. f. 



Celmisia glandulosa, as first described by J. D. Hooker in the Flora 

 Novae- Zelandiae, referred only to certain specimens of a celmisia collected 

 by Colenso on the Volcanic Plateau, near the base of Mount Tongariro. 

 Since that time the species, as denned by Hooker, has been collected, or 

 observed, in many parts of the subalpine belt of New Zealand, where it is 

 common in bogs and wet peaty ground on those mountains where the rain- 

 fall is considerable, but it is wanting on the drier mountains. The species, 

 generally speaking, is constant in its characters, and answers to the descrip- 

 tion in the Manual of the New Zealand Flora, p. 318. At the same time, 

 taking a broad view of the contents of the species, there is some well-marked 

 local polymorphism, so that the " type," here named " var. vera," can be 

 readily distinguished from the two other varieties described below. 



(a.) C. glandulosa Hook. f. var. a vera Cockayne var. nov. 



This, the common form of what is here made an aggregate species, 

 requires no special description, since it is sufficiently described in the 

 Flora Novae-Zelandiae, p. 124, and in the Handbook of the New Zealand 

 Flora, pp. 135-36. It is readily recognized by its small ovate- or oblong- 

 spathulate, acute, acutely serrate, thin, pale-green leaves which are covered 

 more or less closely with minute glandular pubescence, and its slender 

 scape generally less than 12 cm. high. 



(b.) C. glandulosa Hook. f. var. (3 latifolia Cockayne var. nov. 



Folia late oblongo-spathulata, apice rotundata, in petiolum latum 

 angustata, glanduloso-pilosa, margine ciliata. 



North Island : Egmont-Wanganui Botanical District — Mount Egmont ; 

 common as a member of the tussock -grassland and herb-field plant associa- 

 tions. L. C. 



* The flowers of Carmichaelia nana are certainly not L ' lurid red." but in the 

 absence of fresh flowers I cannot state the exact colour. 



