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Hah. — South Island : Eocky places on Cecil Peak, near Lake Waka- 

 tipu, altitude 5,000-6,000 ft. ; also in several other localities on the 

 Eyre Mountains, of which Cecil Peak is the northern termination ; 

 Mr. James Speden ! 



Apparently forming large simple or branched masses 4-12 in. diameter 

 or more ; rootstock thick and woody, branched at the top. Leaves very 

 numerous, 40-60 or more, crowded, spreading, the lower curved down- 

 wards, the upper more erect, 4-6 in. long, fiabellately divided into 6-9 

 leaflets springing from the top of the petiole ; petiole rather more than 

 half the length of the whole leaf, very thick and coriaceous at the top 

 and about -J-^-in. broad, flat above, convex beneath, gradually widening 

 and becoming thinner and more membranous towards the base, where 

 it is |-1|- in. broad. Leaflets usually 7, but sometimes the central one 

 is 2- or 3-fid almost to the base, thus making the number 8 or 9, very 

 rarely 5 or 6, very thick, rigid and coriaceous, 2^-3 in. long, i-J^in. 

 broad, narrow -linear, narrowed towards the apex into a short rigid 

 and pungent point ; midrib and margin thick and cartilaginous ; veins 

 parallel with the midrib, but connected by numerous transverse 

 veinlets. Male inflorescence alone seen; flowering- stem or peduncle 

 stout, nearly ^in. diameter, 3-4 in. high, bearing at the top numerous 

 compound umbels congested into a capitate mass 3 in. diameter. Lower 

 bracts l^iu. long, composed of a broad and thin membranous sheath 

 ^-f in. diameter, tipped by 7-8 short linear leaflets. Primary umbels 

 10-12, peduncles ^-lin. long; secondary umbels very numerous, bract- 

 lets wanting. Flowers white ; calyx-teeth short, triangular ; petals, 

 obovate-spathulate, with a rather long claw. Fruit not seen. 



A very distinct and curious species, which I have much pleasure in 

 dedicating to its discoverer, who has furnished me with much valuable 

 information respecting the botany of Central Otago and Southland. It 

 is no doubt related to A. Dohsoni, but differs widely in the much greater 

 size of all its parts, in the remarkable digitately or flabellately divided 

 leaves, which are not nearly so coriaceous as those of A. Dobsoni, and 

 in the much larger and more massive inflorescence. Its discovery shows 

 that there is still much to be done on the higher mountains of the 

 southern portion of the South Island. 



2. Raoulia Cheesemanii Beauverd in Bull. Soc. Bot. Geneva, vol. 4 

 (1912), p. 55, sp. nov. 



" Herba pusilla, fruticulosa, ramosissima, procumbens. Eamuli 

 breves (4-10 mm.), erecti, cinereo-incani, dense foliati, monocephali. 

 Folia regulariter denseque disticha imbricata, 2 mm. longa, subelliptico- 

 lineari, recurva apice mucronulata, limbo crassiusculo sericeo-cinereo, valde 

 plicato, sub lente anastomoso-nervoso ; petiolo obsolete cauli adpresso, 

 3-5 nervio. Capitula minima, 5 mm. longa, terminalia, sessilia, cylind- 

 racea, post anthesin radiata. Involucri squamae 3-4-5 mm. longae, 

 squarrosae obtusae vel emarginatae albido-lutescentes, apice atro-fuscae ; 

 extus sericeae vel glabratae ; intus glaberrimae. Flosculi hermaphroditi 

 femineique subaequilongi (3-3'5mm. longi), quam pappi setae breviores. 

 Antherae 1-5 mm. longae. Styli flosculi hermaphroditi femineique aequi- 

 longi. Achaenia fl. ^ puberula, fl. $ glabra, aequilonga, 1mm." 



Hah. South Island : Marlborough, Awatere Eiver ; J. H. Macmahon ! 



The above species has been described by M. Beauverd, the well-known 

 keeper of the Boissier herbarium, in a valuable paper on the genus 



