Myosotis.| BORAGINACES. 461 
Very variable in the shape and texture of the leaves and the extent to which 
they are covered with hairs. M. Hectori only differs in the rather broader and 
shorter leaves, and passes so insensibly into the type that it cannot be retained 
even as a variety. 
3. M. Cheesemanii, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xviii. (1886) 
296.—A small perennial herb forming tufts 1-3in. diam., more or 
less clothed in all its parts with long soft white hairs. Stems 
several from the root, 1-14 in. long, spreading or ascending, densely 
leafy. Lower leaves ++in. long, obovate -spathulate, usually 
rounded at the tip, narrowed into a broad membranous almost 
glabrous 3-nerved base, upper portion coriaceous, hispid on both 
surfaces, margins ciliate with long hairs; cauline leaves smaller and 
narrower, more acute. Flowers 1—4 towards the tips of the branches, 
solitary, axillary, 4in. long, white, sweet-scented. Calyx clothed 
with long straight hairs, 5-lobed to the middle; lobes lanceolate or 
linear-lanceolate, erect, acute. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, almost 
twice as long as the calyx, throat with 5 lunate glands; lobes 
spreading, short, broad, rounded. Stamens included; filaments 
very short; the tips of the anthers equalling or slightly overtopping 
the corolla-scales. Nutlets narrow-ovoid, dark-brown, polished, 
acute. 
Souts Isuanp: Otago—Mount Pisa and the Hector Mountains, on shingle 
slopes, Petrie ! 4500-6000 ft. 
A yery pretty and distinct little species. In some respects it is allied to 
M. Traversiz, but it is much smaller and more densely tufted, and the flowers 
are axillary, not racemose. 
4. M. antarctica, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 57, t. 38.—Annual or 
perennial, more or less clothed in all its parts with spreading or 
appressed stiff white hairs. Stems numerous from the root, pro- 
Strate or decumbent, ascending at the tips, 1-6in. long, usually 
densely leafy. Radical leaves +-lin. long, narrow obovate-spathu- 
late or oblong-spathulate, obtuse or apiculate, sessile or narrowed 
into a petiole oi variable length, membranous or rather coriaceous ; 
cauline smaller, sessile, often distichous. Flowers solitary and 
axillary, sessile or nearly so, minute, 4-3 in. long, white or yellow 
or blue. Calyx cut nearly half-way down, hispid with long straight 
hairs; lobes linear-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla- 
tube cylindric, variable in length, in some forms barely exceeding 
the calyx, in others almost twice as long, throat with 5 scales ; 
lobes very short, rounded. Stamens included; anther-tips usually 
reaching to the level of the corolla-scales. Fruiting calyx enlarged, 
open. Nutlets ovoid, acute, compressed, shining, black or nearly 
so.— Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 201; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 193. M. pygmea, 
Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 384. M. Traillii, Kirk in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 373. 
