Dieffenbachiane. N. O. Scrophularine. 
TABS. DXLV.—DXLVI. 
Ourtsta MACROPRYLLA. (Sect. DicuRroMa). 
Repens, foliis longe petiolatis oblique cordatis crenatis, scapo 
(petiolisque hirsutis) diphyllo, foliis oppositis ovatis serratis 
sessilibus, umbella prolifera, involucro suboctophyllo, foliolis 
lanceolatis serratis, calyce obliquo corollaque hirsutis. 
Has. Mount Egmont, N. Zealand. Dr. Dieffendach. 
This is the first time * that any species of the genus Ourisia 
has been discovered in New Zealand. Mr. Brown detected the — 
O. integrifolia in Van Diemen’s Land; all the rest are natives of 
Chili, or the southern regions of S. rey with the exception — 
of the O. Nepalensis of Mr. Bentham. From all those hitherto 
described, the present is at once distinguished by its large size 
and the umbellate flowers. It is found at a great elevation upon — 
Mount Egmont, on the confines of perpetual snow; and there — 
cannot be a question but that, if this and the other lofty moun- 
tains of N. Zealand were well explored, they would produce 4 — 
rich harvest of novelty. 
. 1,2. Flowers. f. 3. Corolla laid open. f. 4,5. Anther. 
f. 6. Pistil. jf. 7. Section of the germen. /. 8. Capsule 
bursting open :—magnified. 
* A second and very different species of Qurisia will, however, soon appear in 
this work. 
