Myosotas. | BORAGINACES. 469 
Norru Isuanp: Auckland—Summit of Mount Hikurangi, Hast Cape dis- 
trict, altitude 5000 ft., Petrie and Adams ! January. 
Evidently a very handsome plant. In habit and foliage it much resembles 
my M. explanata, but is smaller and stouter, with more copious hairs, and the 
flowers are altogether different in structure. Mr. Brown, who has compared 
specimens with the types at Kew, remarks that ‘‘it differs from the type of 
M. saxosa in its larger habit, larger leaves (which are nearly 2 diameters larger 
than those of M. saxosa and have a different undersurface), and the calyx is also 
narrower and less erect. It is more like M. Lyallii, but the flowers are more 
numerous and denser, and the leaves are hairy all over beneath, whilst in 
M. Lyallii it is only on the midrib that they are hairy beneath.’’ 
18. M. saxosa, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 202.— Perennial, 
small, stout, leafy, very densely hispid with rather long soft white 
hairs. Flowering stems decumbent at the base, ascending above, 
2-3in. high. Leaves 4—-3in. long, linear-spathulate, subacute or 
apiculate, on broad petioles. Racemes pedunculate, few-flowered ; 
flowers crowded, shortly pedicellate. Calyx nearly tin. long, 
deeply 5-partite; lobes linear. Corolla funnel-shaped ; throat with 
®) scales. Anthers slightly exserted.—Exarrhena saxosa, Hook. f. 
Handb. N.Z. Fi. 196, so far as the North Island specimens are 
concerned. H. Colensoi, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 
301 (an part). 
Nortn Isuanp: Hawke’s Bay—Crags at Titiokura, Colenso. 
Apparently this has not been gathered since its discovery by Colenso, more 
than sixty years ago, for the Nelson plant united with it in the Handbook has 
proved to be distinct. Not having seen specimens, I am unable to do more 
than to reproduce in its chief features Hooker’s original description given in the 
Flora. Mr. N. E. Brown remarks ‘‘ that the only species resembling it at Kew 
are M. Cheesemanii, Petrie, and M. Traversii, Hook. f., from both of which it is 
quite distinct.’’ 
19. M. Monroi, Cheesem. n. sp.—Perennial; more or less hispid 
with short stiff white hairs. Flowering stems several from the 
root, slender, decumbent below, erect or ascending above, 2-6 in. 
high. Radical leaves numerous, 3—2in. long, narrow obovate- 
spathulate or lanceolate-spathulate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed 
into a rather long slender petiole, hispid with short stiff white hairs 
on the upper surface, more sparingly so beneath and sometimes 
glabrous except the midrib; cauline smaller and narrower, lanceo- 
late or linear-lanceolate, acute, sessile. Racemes pedunculate, 
simple or forked, many-flowered. Flowers yellow, +-+in. long, 
shortly pedicelled. Calyx hispid with stiff white hairs, deeply 
lobed; lobes erect, linear, acute. Corolla funnel-shaped; tube 
cylindric, rather longer than the calyx, throat with 5 scales; limb 
spreading, shortly lobed; lobes broad, rounded. Stamens inserted 
between the corolla-scales; filaments twice the length of the 
anthers, which usually overtop the corolla-lobes. Ripe fruit not 
seen.—M. saxosa, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 196 (in part). 
