278 Transactions. — Botany. 



Hah. Euahine Mountain-range, east side ; 1898 : Mr. A. 

 Olseu. 



4. V. suhrosulata, sp. uov. 



Plant very small, main stems slender, prostrate, subwoody, 

 with little branches erect, lin.-2in. apart, rising sub 1 in. 

 and each bearing 2-3 minute branchlets, and each branch- 

 let crowned with 10-12 minute leaves. Leaves close, sub- 

 rosulate, and subimbricate, subobovate-orbicular, rein, 

 long, tapering, thickish, undulate-crisp, deeply crenate, 

 margins much recurved, green above, brown and longi- 

 tudinally rugulose below, very hairy . (with young stems and 

 calyces) ; hairs scattered, curved, white ; petioles stout, 

 nearly as long as leaves. Flowers large for plant, terminal, 

 2 together, each on a very short peduncle. Calyx 4-lobed, 

 lobes oblong, very obtuse, margin,s straight-parallel, ciliolate. 

 Corolla pure white, 4-lobed, the 2 lateral and upper lobes 

 broadly obovate or suborbicular, the lower lobe small and 

 narrow, entire ; tube short. Stamens short ; anthers large, 

 orbicular, dark-purple, scarcely excluded. Style erect; stigma 

 subcapitate. 



Hah. Euahine Mountain-range, east side ; February, 1898 : 



Mr. H. Hill. 



Ohs. An interesting little species — a gem ! — pretty near 

 V. tndcanica, mihi (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xx., p. 203), which 

 is also an alpine plant, but differing m several characters. 



5. V. subsimilis, sp. nov. 



Shrub low and thick-growing; upper branches suberect 

 and stout, cylindrical, scarred, i in. diameter, thickly branched 

 at top; branchlets square, erect, subsecund, lin.-2in. long, 

 -Lin. diameter, leafy throughout; secondaries decreasing 

 gradually in length upwards, so that their tips are nearly 

 even, mostly simple, sometimes forked. Leaves quadrifanous, 

 symmetrical, subvertical, deltoid, J-^in. long, obtuse, sessile, 

 connate, closely imbricate and adpressed, concave above, 

 glabrous, thick^ backs rounded not keeled ; green, thickly 

 dotted, dashed with red in age, the lower margins of young 

 leaves densely mealy-white, subciliolate. Flowers small, 

 crowded 3-4-6 together at tips of branchlets, sessile. Calyx- 

 lobes oblong, very obtuse, tips rounded, obsoletely 3-nerved, 

 submembranous, Ught-green, margins shghtly incurved, densely 

 ciliolate-woolly, wool-white. Corolla white, iin. diameter, 4- 

 lobed, lobes spreading, the two lateral and upper elliptic tips 

 broad suborbicular, the upper lobe largest tip entire, lower 

 lobe small ; tube shorter than limb. Anthers suborbicular, 

 large, much exserted. Style longer than stamens ; stigma 

 simple. 



