Petrie. — New Native Phanerogams. 53 



Its life-history is in the main well known ; at no stage does it show 

 the foliage features peculiar to the whipcord Veronicas, and its course of 

 development is quite normal. The adult stage of the plant has been 

 known for several years, if a plant that bears flowers and fruit, and main- 

 tains the ordinary characters of its leaves and shoots to the last unchanged, 

 is an adult. To postulate that the adult form is probably extinct, without 

 a shred of proof, except that flowering and fruiting plants were unknown 

 to the writer, is wholly unwarranted. Some six or seven years ago Mr. 

 Matthews asked me to describe this species, and supplied me with speci- 

 mens in flower and fruit that had been cultivated in his garden in Dunedin. 

 A description of it was then drawn up, but I have deferred its publication 

 until specimens growing wild had been secured. Mr. Steadman's and 

 Mr. Poppelwell's discovery of wild plants near the Blue Lake, Garvie 

 Mountains, has at length removed this obstacle. It gives me peculiar 

 pleasure to publish this species, in which my late friend took so lively an 

 interest. 



9. Euphrasia integrifolia sp. nov. 



Caules repentes et radicantes + 5 cm. longi glabri graciles ramos 

 complures breves edentes. 



Folia in paribus oppositis disposita 3-4 mm. longa conferta glabra 

 integra submembranacea lineari-lanceolata acuminata basi late sessilia, 

 venis perobscuris. 



Flores pauci in foliorum superiorum axillis laxe dispositi 8-10 mm. 

 longi subsessiles ; calyx corollae tubo multo brevior campanulatus glaber 

 in lobos 4 triangulares acutos sectus ; corollae tubus sublatus, labium 

 superius vix arcuatum late emarginatum, inferius in lobos 3 breves 

 rotundatos sectum ; antherae maturae exsertae. 



Capsula (submatura) obovata calyci subaequalis compressa glabrescens 

 acuta v. subacuta. 



Semina in cellula utraque compluria, rnatura baud visa. 



A slender creeping and rooting loosely matted plant. Stems + 5 cm. 

 long, glabrous, rather slender, giving off several short or moderately long 

 branches from the axils of the lower leaves. 



Leaves in opposite pairs, 3-4 mm. long, sessile by a broad base, not 

 connate, glabrous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, submembranous, entire, 

 veins very obscure. 



Flowers few in the axils of the upper leaves, 8-10 mm. long, nearly 

 sessile, white with a purple streak at the back of each lobe of the 

 corolla ; calyx J the length of the corolla, campanulate, glabrous, shortly 

 cut into 4 triangular acute lobes ; tube of corolla rather wide, upper lip 

 short, barely arched, broadly emarginate, lower divided into 3 short rounded 

 lobes ; anthers exserted when mature, style long. 



Capsule about as long as the calyx, obovate, compressed, glabrescent, 

 acute or subacute. 



Seeds several in each cell ; mature not seen. 



Rah. — Wet alpine meadow and bogs on Mount Cleughearn, Fiord County, 

 Southland, about 5,000 ft. ; J. Crosby Smith ! 



Unfortunately, but little material of this very distinct species was 

 secured by Messrs. Crosby Smith and Cuthbert. In no other native species 



