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not largely), one-third the length of filaments, very pubescent ; fruit small, 
about 1 line long, very hispid, sessile, dry, oval, ribbed, truncate with 
minute persistent crown of 4-6 arce: teeth, 2 of them being usually 
much longer and opposite. 
Hab. On dry upland heaths between Matamau and Danneverke (with 
Viola perexigua and Myosotis pygmaa), 1882-83: W.C. 
Obs.—A species having close affinity with N. setulosa, Hook. fil. 
Genus 8. Galium, Linn. 
Galium erythrocaulon, sp. nov. 
Plant small, tender, cespitose, upright, usually 3-5 inches high, simply 
branched at, base; stems below and rootlets bright red and naked, stems 
` above membranaceous, ciliated or hairy, with distant, white, acute, recurved 
hairs. Leaves very small in whorls of four, sub-rotund-elliptic, 4-14 lines 
long, 1 line broad or less, mucronate, very membranaceous, light green 
blotched with yellow, hairy on both sides, largely and distantly ciliate, 
spreading, sub-sessile, and very shortly petiolate, whorls distant on stalks, 
veins anastomosing. Flowers few, mostly solitary in axils of upper leaves, 
sometimes two on long divergent pedicels united together near base on a 
very short peduncle, very rarely three on one peduncle, and, when so, then 
bracteolated at junction, and the middle pedicel much the longest, simple 
peduncles and pedicels much longer than leaves, sometimes twice as long, 
upright; corolla rather large, 4-parted, pink, somewhat inflated and con- 
cave, segments broadly deltoid-ovate, 8-nerved, with three lines of erect 
minute pubescence within on the nerves, tips sub-acute incurved; ovarium 
glabrous. Fruit of two globose minute carpels, dark-brown, rugulose and 
finely muricated with black points. 
Hab. Stony declivities, skirts of dry woods between Norsewood and 
Danneverke, Waipawa County, 1879-1882: W.C. 
Obs, —When I first detected this plant in 1879, I supposed it to be a 
small variety of G. umbrosum, although its rather large and pink flowers 
differed considerably from those of that species, which are minute and 
white; these characters, however, I thought to be abnormal.  Subse- 
quently (in 1882), on again meeting with this plant in another and distant 
locality, I gathered, examined and compared it, and now I believe it to be 
a distinct species. It is certainly distinct from A. Cunningham’s G. pro- 
pinquum, as described by him in his “ Prodromus” (a New Zealand and 
northern species, which I also knew at the North), which Sir J. D. Hooker 
has united with Forster’s G. umbrosum, as being identical with that plant. 
Moreover, Sir J. D. Hooker says (in his ** Handbook”), that he doubts if 
G. umbrosum is really different from his Tasmanian species, G. ciliare; 
