552 SCROPHULARINES,. [Ourisim. 
A puzzling plant, agreeing in some of its characters with O. sessilifolia, 
O. glandulosa, and O. cespitosa, but which cannot be satisfactorily placed with: 
any of the three. 
8. O. glandulosa, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 219.—Forming 
broad patches. Stems stout, branched, creeping and rooting, 
glabrous or nearly so, 2-6in. long. Leaves close-set, imbricating,. 
usually distichous, spreading or recurved, +~-$in. long, obovate- 
spathulate, rounded at the tip, gradually narrowed into a short 
broad petiole or sessile, entire or obscurely crenate, thick and cori- 
aceous, margins densely ciliate with long jointed hairs, upper 
surface glandular-pilose towards the tip, under-surface glabrous, 
veined. Peduncles stout, erect, 1-3 in. long, 1-6-flowered, thickly 
covered with spreading glandular hairs, as are the bracts, pedicels, 
and calyces. Bracts 1 to 3 pairs, similar to the leaves; pedicels. 
slender. Flowers 4—-3in. diam., white. Calyx +-4in. long, 5-par- 
tite; segments oblong, obtuse. Corolia-tube short and broad ; 
lobes obovate, rounded at the tip. Capsule nearly 4in. long, ovoid, 
acute, equalling the calyx-segments. 
SourH Istanp: Otago—Mount Alta, Buchanan! Kurow Mountains, 
Dunstan Mountains, Mount Cardrona, Mount St. Bathan’s, Petrie ! 3500- 
6000 ft. November—January. 
9. EUPHRASIA, Linn. 
Annual or perennial herbs, more or less parasitic. Leaves 
opposite, toothed or laciniate or palmately 3-5-fid, on the flowering 
branches often insensibly passing into leafy bracts. Flowers in 
terminal spikes or racemes, or few towards the tips of the branches. 
Calyx tubular or campanulate, 4-lobed; lobes equal or connate in 
pairs. Corolla-tube narrow below, dilated above; limb 2-lipped ; 
upper lip erect, concave, 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, 
didynamous, converging beneath the upper lip; amnther-cells dis- 
tinct, parallel, equally or unequally mucronate at the base. Style 
pilose ; stigma capitate. Capsule oblong or oblong-orbicular, com- 
pressed, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds usually numerous, pendu- 
lous, oblong, longitudinally grooved. 
A genus found in the temperate regions of both hemispheres. The species 
are extremely variable and difficult to characterize, and are variously estimated 
at from 20 to 80, according to the different views of authors. I have to express 
my indebtedness to Dr. R. von Wettstein’s elaborate monograph for much 
information respecting the New Zealand forms, all of which are endemic. 
* Ovary with several ovules’in each cell. 
Perennial, erect, 6-30in. high, much branched. Leaves 
narrowed into a distinct petiole, margins flat. Flowers 
numerous, large, 4-in. long . 1. EH. cuneaia. 
Perennial, usually erect, 3-8in. high, sparingly “branched. 
Leaves close- set, not ‘narrowed into a distinct petiole, 
margins recurved. Flowers large, 4$—$in. long .. 2. H. Monro. 
