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when voung green and subsuccuient, closely dotted with red ; 

 stipules rather large, broad, glabrous, with narrow erect teeth, 

 2 being longer. Flowers single, axillary on short opposite 

 branchlets, which are often forked at top, each having 2 small 

 leaves with a flower between them ; calycine bracts 2, erect, 

 leaf-like. Masc. : Corolla bell-shaped, greenish dashed with 

 purplish streaks, shining, 4 lines long, 6-lobed ; lobes cut half- 

 way down, subovate, acute, 1-nerved, spreading, revolute, 

 stamens 6, largely pendulous ; filaments h in. long, dark, 

 flaccid, pubescent ; anthers 3^ hues long, linear, pale with a 

 dark nerve running throughout, tip acuminate-apiculate ; base 

 largely sagittate, sharply acute. Fcem. (immature): Fruit only 

 seen, solitary, sessile, suborbicular, green, shining, 1^ lines 

 diameter. 



Hab. Forest near Dannevirke (barren) ; 1892 : W. C. 

 Slopes Euahine Mountain-range ; 1898 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. A species near C. fcBtidissima, but differing in several 

 characters, particularly in its peculiar long linear anthers 

 apiculate and sharply sagittate produced. Forster, who dis- 

 covered and described G. foetidissivia, establishmg the genus 

 on it, gives a dissection of its flowers showing a very differ- 

 ently formed anther, &c. (" Genera Plantarum," tab. 69). 



Order XXXIX. Compositje. 

 Genus 6. Brachycome, Cass. 

 1. B. alpina, sp. nov. 



Plant small, slender, slightly hairy, simple (sometimes 

 2-branched) ; rhizome, Sin. (and more) long, filiform. Leaves 

 radical, scattered, suborbicular, 4 lines diameter, tapering, 

 faintly crenate-lobed, lobes few, their tips pointletted-har- 

 dened from vein produced, dark-green .above, paler below, 

 membranaceous, much veined ; hairs sprinkled, appressed, 

 substrigillose, white, flat, subulate, strangulated, thicker on 

 upper surface ; petioles very slender, 1 in. long, canahculate 

 and dilated at base with membranous margins and patent 

 hairs, dark purple-brown. Scape erect, 3in.-3^in. long, fili- 

 form, with 2-3 small linear distant bracts, glabrous but 

 pubescent towards tip. Head small, drooping, 2 lines dia- 

 meter. Involucral scales numerous, sub 20, linear, dark-green 

 with a thick purple central nerve, margins membranaceous, 

 white ; tips acute, jagged. Florets few ; hgulge white, revo- 

 lute. Receptacle broad, naked, shining, alveolate. Pap- 

 pus 0. Achene sublanceolate, -^ in. long, slightly glandular, 

 viscid. 



Hab. Ruahine Mountain-range, east side; Feb., 1898: 

 Mr. H. Hill. 



