380 NOTES ON THE BOTANY OF LORD HOWE ISLAND, V., 



Top of Mt. GoNver. December, 1910 (Dr. T. Harvey Johnston). 

 (The type). 



Eastern face of Mt. Lidgbird. Au.^ust, 1911 (Rev. W. W. 

 Watts). 



Herba perennis, radice lignosA. Folia lanceolato-spathulata, 

 5-23 cm. longa, circa 3 cm. lata, superne basi pilosa parte majore 

 glabra. Flores in spica 4-8 cm. longa, bractea exteriore carinata, 

 margine ciliata, 5-6 mm. longa, superne basi pilosa. Sepala 4, 

 inargine scariosa, carinata, circiter 4 mm. longa. Corollse tubus 

 4-locularis, nervo medio, margine leniter scariosa, tubo corollse 

 lobis circiter bis sequilongo. Stamina 4, filamentis corollse cir- 

 citer bis sequilongis. .Stylus simplex, breve pilosus, petala valde 

 superans. 



Capsulam maturam non vidi, operculo cum stylo persistente 

 deciduente, ovulis placentae liberse centrali compressse irregu- 

 lariter spathulatse adh?erentibus. 



A perennial with a woody root-stock. 



Leaves lanceolate-spathulate, 2 to 9 inches long (say 5 to 23 

 cm.) with an average width^ in the lanceolate portion, of 1 to H 

 inch (2i-4cm.). The base of the leaf has tufts of long hairs on 

 the inner side. The leaves as a whole are glabrous, with the 

 exception of a slight sprinkling of silky hairs on some of them. 

 Flower-staJk long and glabrous, with a few silky hairs under the 

 spike, the spike exceeding the leaves. Floicers : spike 4-8 cm. 

 long, outer bract keeled, with ciliate edge, from 5-6 mm. long 

 with tuft of hairs at base inside. Sepals 4, with scarious margins, 

 keeled, about 4 mm. long. Corolla-tube 4-lobed, with a central 

 nerve and very slightly scarious margins. The tube is about 

 twice as long as the corolla-lobes. Stamens 4, with filaments 

 about twice as long as the corolla. Anthers cordate, the con- 

 nective pointed at the top. Style shnple, besprinkled with .short 

 hairs, greatly exceeding the petals. Immature caps2ile (ripe 

 capsule not seen) opens circumsciss, the opercular portion falling 

 off with the long persistent style, leaving the ovules attached to 

 a compressed, irregularly spathulate, free central placenta. 



AJinity.— It seems to come nearest to P. aucklandica Hook, f., 

 a New Zealand species, but the latter seems to differ from F. 



