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Hab. Euahine Mountain-range, east side ; February, 189S : 

 Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. A s])ecies prima facie yeiy like V. tetragona, Hook., 

 and without dissection or careful comparison would be taken 

 for it ; but it differs in several particulars — as in leaves not 

 keeled and tips rounded; calyx-lobes, tips rounded; corolla 

 tube short ; and upper lobe of limb entire, not bifid. 



Order LXVII. Thymele^. 

 Genus I. Pimelea, Banks and Solander. 

 1. P. viontatia, sp. nov. 



Shrub, branches (specimens) 6 in. long, erect, stout, 2 lines 

 diameter, bark chocolate-colour ; branchlets woody, erect, 

 slender, 2^ in. long, 1 line diameter, closely and regularly 

 scarred, thickly black muricated between scars, with many 

 short secondary branchlets at their tips lin.-l-|in. long, 

 very leafy ; the young branchlets densely clothed with coarse 

 grey woolly hairs between the leaves. Leaves numerous, 

 close, subdecussate, suberect, spreading, ovate, 4 lines long, 

 obtuse, wrinkled, much keeled, pale-green, margined ; margins" 

 translucent yellow-green ; petioles short, stout, thick. Flowers 

 few, solitary, sometimes in pairs on tips of branchlets ; perianth 

 very hairy, shaggy, 5 lines long ; hairs white ; lobes 4, oblong, 

 subapiculate. Anthers oblong, excluded. Style longer than 

 stamens ; stigma simple. 



Hab. Euahine Mountain-range, slopes, east side ; 1898 : 

 Mr. A. Olsen. 



Obs. A species near P. gnidia, Forst., and also P. subsiniilis, 

 mihi (Trans. N,Z. Inst., vol xxviii., p. 609). 



Genus 10. Euphrasia, Linn. 

 1. E. pygmcsa, sp. nov. {7i07i C. Koch). 



Plant simple, minute, about ^ in. high, erect, glabrous ; 

 root l^in. long, slender, straight. Leaves few, generally 6, 

 thickish, lowermost pair radical, opposite (seed leaves?), ovate, 

 entire, obtuse ; the next pair trifid or 3-lobed ; the next 

 cuneate-spathulate, limb 2 lines long, 7-lobed, the apical lobe 

 large, rounded, the two lateral ones very small and distant, 

 each 3-lobed ; lobes, tips thickened, dark-green ; limb pale, 

 nearly white, tapering ; petiole slender. Flower single, ter- 

 minal, large for plant, sessile. Calyx 5-lobed ; lobes deltoid, 

 subacute, irregular in size, half as long as calyx. Corolla 

 b-3i lines long ; tube slender, long ; lobes of limb large, 

 rounded, 3-veined. Anthers glabrous, mucronate. 



Hab. Euahine Mountain-range, east side, secondarv sum- 

 mits ; 1898: Mr. A. Olsen. 



