472 BORAGINACEZ. [Myosotidiwm. 
style very short, thick; stigma capitate. Fruit large, thick and 
spongy, pyramidal, 4-angled, composed of 4 coriaceous winged 
nutlets adhering to a central column. 
A very remarkable monotypic genus confined to the Clatham Islands. 
1. M. nobile, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5137.—Perennial, stout, 
pilose ; rootstock long, thick, cylindrical. Radical leaves crowded, 
6-12in. long, broadly ovate-cordate or reniform, petioled, very 
thick and fleshy, bright-green and glabrous, strongly nerved; 
cauline few, broadly ovate or oblong, sessile. Cymes dense, sub- 
globose, 8-6 in. diam., many-flowered. Flowers 4in. diam., dark- 
blue in the centre, fading towards the outside, scentless ; pedicels 
11in. long. Calyx-lobes broadly oblong, obtuse, more or less 
hispid with short appressed hairs. Corolla rotate; tube short ; 
limb spreading, lobes rounded. Fruit 4—#in. diam.—Hook. f. 
Handb. N.Z. #i. 196; F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is. 32; Buch. mn 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. vii. (1875) t. 12. 
CuatTHAm IsLANDS: Sandy soil near the sea, Travers! Enys! Chatham 
Tslands Lily. 
A noble plant, once very abundant on the coast-line of the Chatham Islands, 
* but now fast becoming rare in a wild state. 
3. TETRACHONDRA, Petrie. 
A small creeping densely matted perennial herb, glabrous or 
nearly so. Leaves small, all opposite, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, quite 
entire; petioles broad, connate at the base. Flowers terminating 
short axillary branchlets, minute, solitary, tetramerous. Calyx 
persistent, deeply 4-fid; segments ovate, obtuse. Corolla slightly 
longer than the calyx, subrotate; tube very short, naked ; limb with 
4 ovate lobes imbricate in the bud. Stamens 4, inserted at the base 
of the sinus between the corolla-lobes ; filaments as long or rather 
longer than the anthers; anthers 2-celled, small, rounded, dorsi- 
fixed. Ovary 4-partite to the base; style erect from between the 
lobes, twice as long as the ovary; stigmasmall. Nutlets 4, attached 
by a small base, rounded at the back and top, setulose, longer than 
the persistent calyx and style. Seed erect, alouminous; embryo 
cylindrical, almost as long as the albumen; cotyledons equalling 
the radicle. 
1. T. Hamiltonii, Petrie in Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 2250.—Forming 
densely matted patches several inches in diameter. Leaves 4-7, 
in. long, rather fleshy, obscurely dotted. Flowers minute, jin. 
diam.—Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxv. (1893) 269. Tillza Hamiltonii, 
Kirk ex W. S. Hamilton in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii. (1885) 292. 
Soutn Isntanp: Otago—Lowlands in the south and east. Between the Lee 
Stream and Taieri; Hindon; Waipahi; Invercargill, Petrie! Makarewa River, 
W. S. Hamulton ! Sea-level to 1800 ft. 
