470 BORAGINACE. [Myosotis. 
SoutH Isztanp: Nelson—Dun Mountain, Monro, Travers! Buchanan! 
Kingsley! T. F. C.; Red Hills (Wairau Valley), 7. F. C. 3000-4500 ft. 
December—February. 
In the Handbook this was confused with M. saxosa. I have long been 
convinced of its distinctness; and Mr. N. E. Brown, who has kindly compared 
my specimens with the type of M. saxosa, informs me that the two are in 
reality very different. 
20. M. Lyallii, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 202.—‘‘ A rather short 
and stout tufted perennial, slightly hispid with appressed hairs. 
Stems several from the root, erect or ascending, rather stout, 
2-6in. high. Leaves: radical oblong-spathulate or obovate-ianceo- 
late, subacute, 1-14 in. long, narrowed into rather slender petioles ; 
cauline narrow linear-oblong or oblong-spathulate, all slightly 
hispidulous on both surfaces with appressed hairs. Racemes short, 
simple or forked. Flowers very shortly pedicelled. Calyx tin. 
long, hispid with appressed or patent, simple and hooked bristles. 
Corolla ++in. long; tube cylindric, longer than the calyx; lobes 
short, rounded. Stamens with long slender filaments; anthers 
linear. Nuts broadly ovate or orbicular, very black and shining.”’ 
—Exarrhena Lyallii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 196. ?? Myosotis 
(Exarrhena) oreophila, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii (1896) 
039, 
SoutH Istanp: Otago—Milford Sound, Lyall. ‘‘ Habit of a small speci- 
men of M. capitata, but the flower is very different. I have but two specimens.”’ 
I am unacquainted with this, which apparently has not been gathered since 
its original discovery by Dr. Lyall, and in the absence of any additional in- 
formation I have reproduced Sir J. D. Hooker’s description. 
21. M. concinna, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii. (1885) 235. 
—Perennial; everywhere clothed with fine closely appressed soft 
silky hairs; rootstock rather long, stout. Flowering stems 
numerous, rather slender, ascending or erect, leafy, 6-14 in. high. 
Radical leaves numerous, 2—4 in. long, linear- or lanceolate-spathu- 
late to narrow oblong-spathulate, acute or obtuse, gradually nar- 
rowed into long rather slender petioles, both surfaces uniformly 
clothed with soft silky appressed hairs, midrib usually distinct; 
cauline oblong-lanceolate or linear-oblong, sessile, acute. Racemes 
many-flowered, simple or forked, at first short and almost capitate, 
but elongating as the flowering advances. Flowers large, crowded, 
12 in. long, bright pale-yellow or more rarely white with a yellow 
eye, Sweet-scented, pedicellate. Calyx covered with appressed 
silky hairs, 5-partite; lobes linear - lanceolate, obtuse. Corolla 
broadly funnel-shaped; tube short, hardly exceeding the calyx, 
throat with 5 scales; lmb large, rather longer than the tube, 
deeply lobed; lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse or acute. Stamens with 
very slender elongated filaments; anthers exserted beyond the 
corolla-lobes. Nutlets ovoid, red-brown, but not seen quite ripe. 
