Myosotis. | BORAGINACES. 471 
SourH Istanp: Nelson—Limestone rocks on Mount Owen; Mount Arthur, 
PHC. 3500-4500 ft. January. 
Habit of M. macrantha, but at once distinguished by the more silky indu- 
mentum, colour of the flowers, and particularly by the shape of the corolla, 
which has a short tube and large deeply divided limb, whereas in M. macrantha 
the tube is very long and the divisions of the limb comparatively shallow. The 
filaments are also much longer than in M. macrantha. 
22. M. macrantha, Hook. f. ¢ Benth. Gen. Plant. ii. 859.— 
Perennial; more or less densely clothed with soft spreading or 
appressed hairs; rootstock stout ; flowering stems numerous, ascend- 
ing, rather stout, leafy, 6-14in. high. Radical leaves 2-6 in. long, 
lanceolate-spathulate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 
narrowed into rather long broad petioles, both surfaces clothed with 
rather soft appressed hairs; cauline linear-oblong, sessile or the 
lower alone shortly petioled. Racemes many-flowered, simple or 
branched, short in the flowering stage but elongating in fruit, densely 
softly hispid. Flowers large, crowded, 32—lin. long, brownish- 
orange. deliciously sweet-scented; pedicels very short. Calyx 
hispid with straight or hooked hairs, 5-lobed 3-way down; lobes 
linear, obtuse or subacute. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube long and 
slender, twice the length of the calvx, throat with 5 scales; limb 
with 5 oblong obtuse lobes. Stamens with filaments as long as or 
rather longer than the anthers; anthers wholly above the level of 
the scales. Style slender, longer than the corolla. Nutlets linear- 
oblong, shining, black.—Hxarrhena macrantha, Hook. f. Handb. 
NZ PY. 195. 
Var. pulchra.—Similar in size and habit, but more diffuse and less hispid. 
Leaves thinner and more membranous, sometimes almost glabrous beneath. 
Corolla 3-3in. long; tube much broader, almost campanulate, scales wanting 
in all the flowers examined. Filaments shorter than the anthers; anthers just 
reaching the sinus between the corolla-lobes. 
SourH Istanp: Subalpine localities from Nelson to the south-west of Otago; 
not uncommon, especially in the central and western portions of the Southern 
Alps. 2000-5000 ft. December-February. 
A remarkably handsome plant. The filaments are never much longer than 
the anthers, and in var. pulchra are nearly as short as in the typical species 
of Myosotis, but as they are inserted high up the tube the anthers reach well up 
the corolla-limb. 
2. MYOSOTIDIUM, Hook. 
A stout succulent herb, 1-3ft. high. Radical leaves large, 
broadly ovate-cordate or almost reniform ; cauline sessile. Flowers 
blue, in dense corymbose cymes. Calyx deeply 5-partite.  Corolla- 
tube short, throat with 5 protuberances; limb subrotate; lobes 5, 
spreading, obtuse, imbricate. Stamens 5, affixed to the tube of the 
corolla; filaments very short; anthers included. Ovary 4-lobed ; 
