400 Transacllons. — Botany. 



Manulierikia ; Upper Clutha basin, as far soutli as Moa 

 Flat. 



This species like the last is strongly scented. It is closely 

 allied to O.virgala, Hook, fil., with %vhich it has been hitherto 

 confounded. From this it is sufficiently distinguished by its 

 stouter terete (not square) branchlets, differently veined leaves, 

 viscid and ^Yidely different involucral scales, more numerous 

 florets, longer achenes, much larger and broader leaves, and 

 later season of flowering. Throughout the Upper Clutha 

 basin Olearia virgata, Hook, fil., flowers in November; while 

 the present species flowers in February or the last days of 

 January, when the traveller's attention is attracted to wayside 

 plants by their sweet but cloying perfume. It is a common 

 plant throughout the Upper Clutha basin on alluvial flats and 

 the lower slopes of the mountains, everywhere growing side 

 b};- side with 0. virgata, Hook. fil. It is a true upland plant, 

 being nowhere found near the coast, so far as I have ob- 

 served . 



3. Myosotis goycni, sp. nov. 



Eoot perennial, woody, rather slender. The whole plant 

 rather closely clotlied with short stiff appressed white hairs, 

 which give it a grey tint. Eadical leaves tufted, 1^-in. to 3iu. 

 long, linear-spathulate, acute, broadest near the apex (^in.), 

 equally hispid on both surfaces, the narrow petiole more than 

 half the length of the entire leaf. Cauline leaves numerous, 

 scattered, similar to the radical, but in the upper ones with 

 broader and shorter petioles. 



Flowering-stems several, branched or simple, ascending, 

 rather stout, the upper third naked, 5in. to lOin. long. Flowers 

 in a simple or forked raceme 2in. long or less, large and showy, 

 nearly sessile. Calyx deeply divided into 5 linear-subulate 

 divisions; corolla tubular, dilated upwards, ^in. to fin. long, 

 ^iu. wide at the limb, which is divided into 5 large rounded 

 iobes ; the tube of the corolla pale yellow, the limb almost 

 pure white. Stamens sessile on the tube a little above the 

 middle. Style slender, slightly longer than the corolla-tube. 

 Nuts four, large ; mature forms not seen. 



Tliis species was first found, several years ago, by Mr. P. 

 Goyen, F.L.S., at Arrowtown. I have gathered it also in the 

 Cardrona Valley, and at the blufi' on the east side of Lake 

 Hawea. It flowers late in November, and has a very at- 

 tractive appearance on the steep bare rocky or shingly faces 

 which it appears to affect. It is very close to Myosotis alho- 

 sericea, Hook, fil., from which it differs in the larger size of 

 all its parts, the stouter, longer, and more branched flowering 

 stems, and the much larger pale -yellow or nearly white 

 flowers. In 31. alho-sericea, Hook, fil., the whole plant is 



