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at the margin, + 6 mm. long, either side showing two broadly rounded 

 teeth separated by a wide shallow sinus. 



Flowers rather large, axillary, peduncled, generally arranged in opposisi 

 pairs; peduncles nearly twice as long as the leaves, at maturity IJcni. 

 long, curved. 



Calyx narrow-campanulate, pubescent, divided for one-third its length 

 into four short obtuse subcostate lobes ; margins recurved. Corolla 

 whitish, funnel-shaped, expanded at the throat ; upper lip 2-lobed, lobes 

 short, obtuse, entire ; lower strongly refiexed and cut into three short 

 obtuse entire lobes, the middle one narrower. Anthers cohering, glabrous 

 or nearly so. 



Capsule shorter than the persistent calyx, broadly obovate-cuneate, 

 sparingly pubescent at the top. 



Hah. — End Peak, Lake Hauroko. 



I have not seen good specimens of this plant, which was collected by 

 Mr. J. Crosby Smith, F.L.S., during an adventurous and laborious visit to 

 Lake Hauroko and its neighbourhood. Owing to difficulties of travel, they 

 are so mouldy and indifferently dried that I cannot be sure of the glabrous 

 condition of the leaves or of the exact colour of the corolla. The species 

 finds its nearest ally in E. Cockayniana Petrie, from which it differs in the 

 suborbicular differently cut leaves, the more diffuse branching, and the 

 elongated curved peduncles. 



5. Euphrasia umbellata sp. nov. 



Herba annua, ramosa, gracillima, glabra. Caulis gracilis, l|-2 cm. 

 longus, deinde umbellato-ramosus ; rami gracillimi, patentes v. ascendentes, 

 5-10 cm, longi, parce subdivisi. 



Folia in paribus oppositis subdistantibus disposita, viridia, tenuia, 

 trinervia, anguste cuneata, ad apicem in 5-7 breves subulatos subacutos 

 dentes secta. 



Flores solitarii, longe pedmiculati ; corolla per-anguste infundibuli- 

 formis, 1-li cm. longa, recta : stamina glabra. 



A low delicate much-branched glabrous annual herb. 



Main stem very slender, 1^2 cm. long, then umbellately divided into 

 4-7 spreading or ascending filiform branches 6-10 cm. long that are again 

 sparingly subdivided ; branches not creeping or rooting. 



Leaves in rather distant opposite pairs, greenish when dry, sessile, thin, 

 not recurved, 4-6 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, narrow-cuneate in outline, entire 

 for two-thirds their length, the upper third cut into 5-7 narrow subacute 

 subulate lobes. 



Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, not in opposite pairs, 

 long-peduncled ; pedimcles capillary, 1-1| cm. long, straight, calyx short, 

 tumidly campanulate, cut into four short subulate teeth. Corolla 1 cm. 

 long, very narrow funnel-shaped, straight ; the lips short : anthers glab- 

 rous or nearly so. 



Capsule (unripe) apparently shorter than the tube of the calyx. 



Hab. — Mouth of Oreti River, Southland. 



Li common with the preceding species described in this paper, the 

 present plant was collected by Mr. J. Crosby Smith, F.L.S. His zealous 

 and fortunate collecting is revealing in the south-western region of the 

 South Island a more distinctive and varied flora than has hitherto been 

 supposed to occur there. The Fiord County, with its many high ranges of 



