Myosotis. | BORAGINACE. 465 
Racemes many-flowered, short, simple or branched, capitate, very 
densely hispid. Flowers 4-4in. long, sessile or nearly so, lemon- 
yellow, sweet-scented. Calyx densely hispid with straight or 
hooked hairs, deeply d-lobed; lobes linear, acute. Corolla-tube 
1 longer than the calyx, narrow funnel-shaped, throat with 5 scales; 
lobes short, rounded. Stamens included; filaments very short; 
anthers with their tips just above the level of the scales. Style 
slender, almost equalling the corolla. Nutlets narrow-ovoid, ob- 
tuse, polished and shining, brownish-black. 
SourH Isuanp: Bare shingle slopes on the higher mountains, not un- 
common in Nelson, Canterbury, and Westland, less abundant in Otago. 2500- 
6000 ft. December—February. 
A well-marked plant, whose nearest ally is the following species. 
11. M. angustata, Cheesem. n. sp.—Size, habit, and general 
appearance of M. T’raversw, and like it everywhere densely hispid 
with straight or hooked stiff white hairs. Leaves usually narrower, 
4-14 in. long, $-4in. broad, narrow linear-spathulate, obtuse or 
subacute, gradually narrowed towards the base. Racemes many- 
flowered, short, simple or branched, when young forming a 
capitate head to the branches, very densely hispid. Flowers about 
4 in. long, sessile or nearly so, white. Calyx densely hispid with 
straight or hooked hairs, divided about two-thirds way down; lobes 
linear, erect, acute. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx, cylindri- 
cal, throat with 5 scales; lobes short, rounded. Stamens with 
filaments as long as the anthers, so placed that the anthers are 
wholly above the level of the scales, their tips reaching half-way up 
the corolla-lobes. Style slender, exceeding the corolla. Ripe fruit 
not seen. 
SoutH IstaAnp: Nelson—Mount Arthur Plateau and Raglan Mountains, 
Hdd (Oi 3500-4500 ft. January. 
I advance this as a distinct species with much hesitation, for at first sight 
there is little to separate it from M. Traversti except the slightly narrower 
leaves and white flowers. But the position of the anthers is altogether 
different, for in M. Traversii the filaments are excessively short, and the tips 
of the anthers are only just above the level of the scales, whereas in the present 
plant the filaments equal the anthers, which are altogether above the level 
of the scales. Technically, it should be placed in the section Hxarrhena, but I 
am unwilling to remove it from the vicinity of M. Traversii. 
12. M. albo-sericea, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 738.— Peren- 
nial ; everywhere silvery white with closely appressed silky hairs ; 
rootstock stout, woody, clothed with the remains of the old leaves ; 
flowering stems one or several, rather slender, 3-6 in. high. Radi- 
cal leaves very numerous, densely tufted, $-lin. long, tin. 
wide, narrow linear-spathulate, acute, gradually narrowed into a 
petiole longer than the blade, coriaceous, uniformly silky on both 
surfaces; cauline few, distant, }-$ in. long, linear-oblong or lanceo- 
