128 ; ROSACE. [Gewm. 
straight, villous below, glabrous and hooked a the tip, much 
longer than the achene. —~ Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 268; Fl. Nov. 
Fel. i. 56; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 55; Kirk, Students’ FI. 129. 
NortH anp Souru Isnanps: In hilly and mountain districts, from Mount 
Hikurangi and the Ruahine Range southwards. 1500-5000 ft. December- 
February. Also in South America, from Chili to Fuegia. 
3. G. sericeum, JZ. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 129.—<‘ Pubescent, 
silky or villous in all its parts. Leaves all radical, #-lin. long 
including the petiole; terminal segment orbicular-cordate or reni- 
form, minutely lobed or crenate-toothed, pubescent and rugose 
beneath, silky above; lateral leaflets minute or wanting. Scape 
strict, downy, 2-4 in. high, with 1-3 toothed bracts. Flowers few, 
small, white, racemose or solitary and terminal. Calyx-tube open, 
silky; segments narrow, ovate, subacute; bractlets short, ovate. 
Petals slightly exceeding the calyx, retuse. Receptacle glabrous. 
Achenes stipitate, obliquely ovate, villous, compressed ; style much 
shorter than the achene, hooked at the tip. Heads not spreading.” 
—Sieversia albiflora, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1. 9, t. 7. 
AUCKLAND Isntanps: Sir J. D. Hooker, Kirk. 
There are no specimens of this in Mr. Kirk’s herbarium, and I have there- 
fore copied the description given in the ‘‘ Students’ Flora.” Mr. Kirk remarks 
that it is separated from G. parviflorwm by the short ovate bractlets, and com- 
pressed oblique achenes with very short styles silky nearly to the apex. 
4. G. uniflorum, Buch. im Trans. N.Z. Inst. ii. (1870) 88.— 
Rootstock creeping, stout and woody, clothed with the reddish 
bases of the old leaves and stipules. Leaves all radical, 1-3 in. 
long; terminal leaflet large, 3-lin. diam., oblong- or rounded- 
reniform, obscurely lobed, deeply crenate-toothed ; margins densely 
ciliated ; surfaces with a few sparse long hairs or almost glabrous ; 
lateral leaflets 1-2 pairs, minute, deeply toothed and ciliated. 
Scapes 3-6in. high, slender, pubescent or villous; bracts 1-2, 
small, narrow, entire or toothed. Flower solitary, large, white, 
#-14 in. diam. Calyx-lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, villous with long 
hairs. Petals large, broadly obovate or almost orbicular. Achenes 
villous with long hairs, gradually narrowed into a very long style 
hooked at the tip.—Kurk, Students’ Fl. 129. 
SoutH IstAnp: Nelson— Mount Cobb, F#. G. Gibbs! Discovery Peaks, 
HA. H. Travers! Mount Buckland, Townson! Canterbury and Westland—Moun- 
tains above Arthur’s Pass, 7. #. C.; Kelly’s Hill, Petrie and Cockayne! 
3000-5000 ft. January—February. 
A handsome and distinct species, easily recognised by the large white 
solitary flowers. 
5. G. leiospermum, Peirie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvi. (1894) 
2 7.—Small, slender, 3-6in. high, silky or villous in all its parts. 
Radical leaves rosulate, spreading, 1-2 in. long, pinnate; terminal 
leaflet 4-2 in. diam., broadly ovate or rounded, sometimes obscurely 
lobed, ‘closely and. unequally sharply toothed ; lateral leaflets 
