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or cushion, spathulate, crenate or* dentate, when young clothed 
with white cellular ribband-like hairs, glabrous or nearly so when 
old, narrowed into a petiole of variable length. Scape very stout, 
sometimes as thick as the finger, covered with densely crowded 
sweet-scented flowers, forming a conical or pyramidal raceme. 
Pods 4-1in. long, obovate, very broadly winged, notched at the 
top; style very short; stigma 2-lobed. Seeds numerous, subreni- 
form, pitted; radicle very long, twice folded, first upwards then 
downwards and backwards over the back of the cotyledons.— 
Kirk, Students’ Fl. 38. N. notabile, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xiv. (1882) 344, t. 25. 
SoutuH Isnanp: Nelson and Canterbury—Not uncommon on dry shingle- 
slopes on the mountains, but easily overlooked. Otago—Mount Ida, P. Goyen. 
Altitudinal range 2000-5000 ft. December—February. 
One of the most singular plants in the colony. When in flower or fruit it 
has a conical or pyramidal shape; but flowerless specimens form rosettes or 
cushions of closely packed imbricating leaves, from which no doubt has arisen 
the local name of ‘‘ penwiper plant.” The flowers are deliciously fragrant. 
2. N. australe, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 15.—Small, densely 
tufted, usually much branched from the base; branches leafy, 
spreading, 1-4in. long. Leaves radical and cauline, numerous, 
4-14in. long, petiolate, linear- or oblong-spathulate, entire or 
crenate, glabrous or with a few cellular hairs, often recurved. 
Flowers very numerous, corymbose, about +in. diam. Pod much 
smaller than in the preceding species, 4-41n. long, broadly oblong 
or elliptic, winged, barely notched at the top; style long, almost + 
the length of the pod. Seeds numerous, pitted; radicle long, 
slender.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 38. Thlaspi (?) australe, Hook. f. F'l. 
Nov. Zel. ii. 328. 
Var. stellatum, Kirk, l.c. 39. —Stems not branched. Leaves narrow 
linear-spathulate ; petioles pubescent. Flowers numerous, on long 1-flowered 
peduncles. 
SourH Isntanp: Nelson—An abundant plant on the mountains, from 2500 
to 5000 ft. Var. stellatum : Mount Rintoul, #. G. Gibbs, W. H. Bryant. 
A pretty little plant, originally discovered by Sir David Monro. Although 
very common in the Nelson District, it has not been observed further south than 
Lake Tennyson. 
Orper IV. VIOLARIEA., 
Herbs, shrubs, or small trees. Leaves usually alternate, simple, 
entire lobed or cut, stipulate. Flowers regular or irregular, axillary, 
solitary or arranged in cymes or panicles, rarely racemose. Sepals 5, 
equal or unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, equal or 
unequal, lower one sometimes spurred, usually imbricate. Sta- 
mens 5, hypogynous; filaments short, broad; anthers erect, free 
or connate round the pistil; connective broad, usually produced 
beyond the cells into an appendage. Ovary free, 1-celled, with 
