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This handsome species has much of the habit and general appearance of 
C. fastigiata, but is at once distinguished by the broad pods, which are 
more than twice the diameter of those of C. fastigiata, and have in addition 
a peculiar turgid or swollen appearance very unusual in the genus. The 
pods of C. fastigiata (which I have gathered in a fruiting condition at the 
"Wairau Gorge) are flat and narrow, and never more than ṣẹ inch in 
diameter, 
9. Cotula linearifolia, n. sp. 
Dark green, rather thick and fleshy, very aromatic, sparingly pilose. 
Stems branched, prostrate, ascending at the tips. Leaves 4-1} inches 
long, 1—4 inch broad, thick and fleshy, narrow linear or linear-spathulate, 
quite entire, sprinkled with minute glandular dots, blade gradually narrowed 
into a broad sheathing petiole. Scapes 2-4 inches long, rather slender, 
with from 4-8 linear or linear-subulate bracts. Heads unisexual, 4-4 inch 
diameter. Scales of the involucre in about three series, linear-oblong, 
obtuse, herbaceous, with a broad green centre and thin brownish margins ; 
receptacle convex, papillose ; florets usually with numerous rounded trans- 
parent glands. Female florets—corolla thick and fleshy, swollen at the 
base, somewhat tetragonous, narrowed above, with 4 short erect lobes; 
achene linear-obovate, compressed. Males—smaller and more slender, 
funnel-shaped, 4-lobed. 
Hab. Mountains flanking the Wairau Valley, Nelson, alt. 3,000-4,500 
feet. 
A curious little species, allied to C. pyrethrifolia, Hook. f., in the struc- 
ture of the flower heads and in the numerous linear bracts, but differing 
from it, and all the other New Zealand species, in the narrow entire leaves. 
In outward appearance it somewhat resembles Abrotanella linearis, Berg- 
gren. 
8. Veronica cheesemani, Benth. 
(Hook. f., Icones Plantarum, t. 1366, a.) 
Small, greyish green, densely tufted, forming rounded cushions 2-5 
inches in diameter, pubescent in all its parts. Branches slender, elosely 
compacted and intertwined. Leaves $-i inch long, narrow obovate, lobu- 
late, or pinnatifid, lobes obtuse, narrowed into a long or short broad petiole. 
Flowers white, solitary, axillary, very shortly pedicelled, 4 inch diameter. 
Calyx deeply divided into four spreading linear-spathulate segments, that 
are coarsely toothed towards the top. Corolla slightly longer than the 
calyx, four-lobed, lobes obovate, emarginate. Ovary broadly ovoid, hispid. 
Capsule much shorter than the sepals, broadly didymous, slightly com- 
pressed, hispid, ultimately splitting to the base into four oblong obtuse 
valves, 
