2. N. AUSTRALE. 



Likewise an Alpine plant; is a small perennial, (leiiscly-turtcd, iuiicli-l)iaiiclie(l, 

 and glabrous, with short leafy branches, and very numerous white corymbose flowers. 

 Branches, 1-2 in. long. Leaves petiolate, ^-'i^ in. long, s[)athulate, oblong, often 

 re-curved. The flowers of this species are scentless. It is found only in the Middle 

 Island, Nelson District, at an altitude of from l.,000 to 5,000 feet. 



3. N. NOTABILIS. New species. 



This remarkable little alpine agrees in several details with the description of 

 N. rosuUdum, given above ; that species, however, being described as a pyramidal, fleshy 

 herb, with a scape sometimes thicker than the little finger, and a span high ; whereas, 

 N. notahills, is a small, circular, densely-leaved plant, Avith the inlloresence forming a 

 terminal sphere of small white flowers. It has no stem, the leaves being arranged like 

 a miniature umbrella, surmounted by a small, dense ball of white flowers. This addition 

 to our New Zealand Flora is due to Mr. J. Buchanan, F.L.S., one of our most enthusi- 

 astic field and indoor botanists, Avho first discovered it, in the year 1881, at the head of 

 Lake Ohau, at an elevation of 3,000 feet. 







