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from them in habit and in dimensions, in the shape, size, colour, 

 and silkiness of its leaves and involucral scales, and especially 

 in the fewness of its pappns hairs. 



II. Only three heads of florets were found on several speci- 

 mens that were collected, and these were much advanced, with 

 the florets of the one dissected gnawed by insects ; the other 

 parts of the head, however, were perfect. 



Order XL.— STYLIDIE^. 



Genus 1. Forstera, Linn. 

 1. F. truncatella, sp. nov. 



Plant small, herbaceous; stem stout, erect, simple, 2^-4 

 inches long, red, succulent, ^-1-| inches of the basal portion 

 bare of leaves and scarred, with many simple fibrous rootlets, 

 the upper portion leafy. Leaves light-green, close-set, imbri- 

 cating, sessile, semi-amplexicaul, 3 lines long, obovate-oblong, 

 thickish, obsoletely veined (seen when held up between eye and 

 light), margins narrowly cartilaginous, a circular green pore at 

 tip within margin upper surface, which becomes dark-brown in 

 age. Scape 2 inches long, filiform, red, erect, 1 - 2-flowered ; 

 bracts, on 2-flowered specimens, 6-7, on 1-flowered specimens, 

 4-5, linear, truncate, 1-nerved, nerve strong, simple ; tips ciliate. 

 Calyx large, 4-5 lines long, 6-lobed ; lobes oblong, suddenly 

 acuminate, tips truncate, strongly nerved, nerve branched, 

 branches diagonal, short, straight ; margins glandular-ciliate. 

 Corolla h inch diameter, membranaceous, slightly waved, much 

 veined ; veins flexuous and branched ; tube short ; lamina 6- 

 lobed, cut nearly to base ; lobes oblong somewhat broader near 

 apex, spreading, the upper half white, the lower reddish ; tips 

 rounded, sub-retuse ; margins uneven, tubercular-ciliate. Style 

 erect, divided at base ; anthers and stigma exserted. 



Hah. Banks of a small mountain stream on the west side of 

 Mount Ngaruahoe ; "altitude 5,200 feet;" County of East 

 Taupo; 1887: Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. I. A species allied to those throe New Zealand species 

 already described, (" Flora New Zealand,"') but differing from 

 them all in several particulars ; especially in its larger mem- 

 branaceous flowers with glandular and fcuberculate-ciliate margins 

 to both corolla and calyx, which are also much veined, and in 

 the tips of the calycine lobes, and of the bracts, being much 

 truncate. 



II. I have received but a few perfect specimens in flower 

 of this interesting little plant, and as I have only dissected 

 one flower (taken from a 2-flowered scape), my description is 

 not so complete as I could wish it to be ; it is, however, quite 

 correct as far as it goes : there were just as many 2-flowered as 

 1-flowered scapes in the lot. 



