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revolute, 4-nerved ; of disk, numerous, about 60, bell-mouthed, 

 5-cleft, segments erect, subacute. Eeceptacle pitted, alveolar 

 ridges somewhat regularly and acutely toothed. Pappus 

 numerous, ^Yhite, soft, slightly scabrid. Achene narrowly 

 oblong, striate, contracted under pappus, edges strigillose- 

 pubesceut ; tip obtuse, with a central capillary point. Arms 

 of style long and much arched, tips terete, thickened. 



Hah. High hills, eastern slopes of Euahine Mountain-range, 

 west of Woodville, County of Waipawa ; 1893 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. I have received only flowering-stems (three) of this 

 plant, roughly and hastily gathered ; their cauline leaves, 

 being tender, bruised and much broken, so that allowance 

 must be made for their description : their thickly anastomos- 

 ing veins, together with the peculiar strigillose pubescence of 

 the achenia and the general glandular pubescence of the 

 plant, afford good characters. It has much the appearance of 

 an Ercclitites, and at first sight I had supposed it to belong to 

 that small genus. 



Order XL. Stylidie^. 

 Genus 2. Helophyllum, Hook. f. 

 1. H. muscoides, sp. nov. 



Plant low csespitose compact, spreading, forming pretty 

 large mat-like patches. Branches l^in. long, each bearing 

 2-3-4 small branchlets about -Mu. long at top, their tops being 

 nearly equal. Leaves closely imbricated all round stems, 

 glabrous, linear, semi-terete, thick, 1-| lines long, -^-^in. broad, 

 wider and flatter at base, wdiich is also w^hite and glossy ; 

 apex obtuse, slightly spathulate and knobbed, brownish- 

 yellow and orange, the young leaves bright-green. Flower 

 solitary on tip of branchlet, white, star-like ; calyx 6 linear 

 lobes, obtuse, length of tube, glabrous ; corolla 6-parted, seg- 

 ments oblong, obtuse, distant, each 1 line long, equal, spread- 

 ing fiat on leaves ; style erect, much exserted, white ; stigma 

 penicillate, with 2 small pale-coloured anthers underneath, 

 adpressed. 



Hah. Tongariro Mountain, Taupo ; 1893 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. A species near to H. colcnsoi, Hook, f., but with very 

 much smaller and differently-shaped leaves. All the flowers I 

 have seen (nearly a dozen) were 6-lobed and regular. 



Order LV. Lentibulakie^. 

 Genus 1. Utricularia, Linn. 

 1. U. vulcanica, sp. nov. 



Scape simple, erect, filiform, 1 Jin.-2in. high ; 1-flowered 

 (one specimen 2-flowered), purplish-brown, glabrous, 4 simple 

 bracteolcs sublinear obtuse, narrowest at tips adpressed in a 



