Myosotis. | BORAGINACEZ. 463 
NortH Istanp: Hawke’s Bay—Kaweka Mountain, H. Tryon. Soutu 
Istanp: Abundant throughout. Sea-level to 4000 ft. December—Feb- 
ruary. 
Closely allied to M. Forsteri, but easily distinguished by the more erect 
habit, more hispid stems and leaves and calyces, shorter and more erect pedicels, 
usually yellow flowers, and narrower black nutlets. It is a common Australian 
plant. . 
7. M. Forsteri, Lehm. Asperif. 95.—Usually perennial. Stems 
branched from the root, decumbent or almost prostrate below, 
ascending or suberect above, slender, flaccid, leafy, 6-18 in. long, 
more or less hispid or pilose with soft white hairs. Lower leaves 
on long slender petioles 4-2in. long; blade $-14in., oblong or 
orbicular-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, rather membranous, both 
surfaces hispidulous. Racemes elongated, very many-flowered ; the 
‘lower flowers often axillary; fruiting pedicels equalling the calyx 
or longer than it, spreading. Flowers about +in. long, white or 
white with a yellow eye. Calyx campanulate, hispid with spread- 
ing hooked hairs, 5-lobed to the middle; lobes linear-oblong, acute. 
Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, slightly exceeding the calyx, throat 
with 5 scales; lobes short, rounded. Anthers included, their tips 
equalling the corolla-scales. Nutlets broadly ovoid or almost 
orbicular, pale-brown, shining. —D.C. Prodr. x. 110; A. Cunn. 
Precur. n. 398; Raoul, Choiz, 48; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 200; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 194. M. spathulata, A. Rich. Fl. Nowv. Zel. 198 
(non Forst.). M. Hamiltoni, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx. (1888) 
201. M. polyantha and M. tenuifolia, Col. l.c. xxxi. (1899) 275, 
276. (2?) M. venosa, Col. l.c. xxviii. (1896) 606. 
NortH AND SoutH Istanps : Not uncommon from the Bay of Islands to the 
south-west of Otago. Sea-level to 3500 ft. October—February. 
8. M. capitata, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 56, t. 37.—Perennial ; 
clothed in all its parts with soft spreading scarcely hispid hairs ; 
rootstock long; stems one or several from the root, stout, ascend- 
ing, simple, leafy. Radical leaves numerous, spreading, 14—4in. 
long, linear-obovate or linear-oblong or spathulate, obtuse, narrowed 
into a short broad petiole, clothed with soft spreading or appressed 
hairs above, much less hairy beneath; cauline smaller, the upper 
ones sessile. Racemes short, stout, simple or branched, usually 
forming a dense many-flowered head. Flowers }in. long, 4—+in. 
diam., shortly pediceiled, blue. Calyx hispid with appressed 
straight hairs, 5-lobed 3-way down; lobes linear, obtuse. Corolla- 
tube 4 longer than the calyx, cylindrical, throat with 5 scales ; 
limb flat, spreading, with 5 rounded lobes. Stamens included ; fila- 
ments very short; anther-tips just above the level of the scales. 
Style long, slender. Nutlets ovoid, smooth and shining, black.— 
Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 200; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 194. 
