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incrassata donatis, glandulis epigynis subulatis, ovario post anthesin sursum elongato, capsula membra- 
nacea lineari-elongata. 
Has. Middle Island. Milford Sound and Otago, Lyall. 
A very much smaller and more slender plant than the last. Stem rooting and decumbent below, 1-3 inches 
long, with leafy ascending apices. Leaves rather fleshy, but not thick or coriaceous, 4 inch long, obovate, blunt, 
with a thickened cartilaginous border. Peduncle 3-5 inches long, one- to two-flowered ; flowers nodding, smaller 
than in F. sedifolia. Calyx tube oblong, lengthened when the plant is fruiting ; lobes five to six, broadly oblong. 
Corolla white, campanulate, 4-4 inch long, of five to six broad blunt lobes, each with a vertical thickened ridge 
at the base on either side. Stigmas two, broad, two-lobed. Capsule membranous, linear-clavate, i inch long.— 
A very pretty little species, nearly allied to the Tasmanian F. bellidifolia (Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 851), but wanting the 
supplementary lobules between the lobes of the corolla. 
3. Forstera Bidwillii, Hook. fil.; caule robusto elongato basi nude fibroso cicatricato superne ascen- 
dente simplici v. diviso folioso, foliis plurimis confertis coriaceis patulis lineari-ligulatis subacutis enerviis 
marginibus recurvis cartilagineis, pedunculo gracili plerumque 2-floro, floribus cernuis v. erectis, calyce 
5-6-lobo, corolla 5-7-loba glandulisgue ut in F. tenella, capsula clavata. 
Haz. Northern Island. Tongariro, Bidwill. Ruahine range, etc., Colenso. 
Intermediate in size, form, and habit between F. sedifolia and F. tenella, having the long, stout, leafy stems of 
the former, and the longer, less imbricated leaves of the latter. Stems simple or divided, 3-8 inches long, stout, 
scarred, fibrous below, leafy above for 2-4 inches. Leaves thick, coriaceous, spreading, 4 inch long, linear, rather 
sharp, nerveless, with narrow, recurved, cartilaginous margins. Peduncles slender, generally two-flowered. Flowers 
close together, white, like those of 7. tenella. Capsule membranous, club-shaped, six-nerved, not linear as in the 
last species. —This plant I had regarded as the F. sedifolia till I received Dr. Lyall’s specimens of that plant, which 
show it to be very distinct. The remarks, however, in * Flora Antarctica, under F. clavigera (made in allusion to 
F. sedifolia from an examination of this), equally apply to F. sedifolia, except in the unimportant character of the two- 
flowered peduncle. 
$ b. HELOPHYLLUM. Stems short, very densely tufted. Leaves very closely imbricated. Flowers solitary, sessile. 
4. Forstera clavigera, Hook. fil.; densissime ceespitosa, compacta, caulibus erectis ramosis, foliis den- 
sissimis arcte imbricatis semiteretibus apicibus nodoso-incrassatis, floribus terminalibus sessilibus solitariis. 
Fl. Antarct. p. 38. t. 98. 
Has. Northern Island. Top of the Ruahine mountains, Colenso. 
This very remarkable plant was discovered by myself on Lord Auckland’s Group, where it forms dense, hard, 
green, convex patches on the ground. Tt probably abounds on the mountains of the Middle and Southern Islands, 
but I have not seen it thence. The stems are 2—3 inches long, and with the leaves nearly 4 inch thick; a good 
deal like those of Donatia Nove-Zelandie, which it also resembles in the sessile solitary white flower, buried 
among the leaves, and the styles and anthers growing together from between the great epigynous glands. Corolla 
of the same character as in the former species, but much smaller; generally seven-lobed, with a more tubular base 
and spreading limb. Epigynous glands depressed, lunate. 
Norge. Stylidium spathulatum, Br., introduced into A. Cunn. Prodr. from A. Rich. Flora, is a native of New 
Holland, and erroneously supposed to be a New Zealand plant. 
