464 Transactions.—Dotany. 
excessively crowded branchlets, and narrow leaves. In the inflorescence it 
approaches most closely to the former, but differs in the narrow involucral 
scales with green tips, and the longer involucres. The leaves are less 
evidently reticulate on both surfaces. 
Raoulia apice-ni7rc. 
A small densely-tufted plant, forming compact masses, 2-5 inches in 
height. Leaves densely imbricated, ovate spathulate, obtuse, covered with 
snow-white loosely appressed hairs. Heads l'-1'long; involucral scales 
linear with scarious margins and black tips. Pappus hairs white, scabrid 
near the tip, but more thickened. Achenes glabrous, 
Hab: South Island—Mount Monro, Awatere, 5-600 feet, P. McRae 
and T. Kirk. Ben Lomond, Otago, 5,500, D. Petrie. 
A singular plant: immediately before flowering the heads are black and 
glossy, presenting a marked contrast to the snow-white leaves. It is most 
closely allied to R. australis, from which it is distinguished by tho black- 
lipped involucral leaves. 
ScRoPHULARINEZ. 
Veronica armstrongit. 
A dwarf much-branched shrub, 1-8 feet high. Leaves minute, dimor- 
phic. 1, linear, patent, or sub-patent ,!;’-1” long, acute. 2, closely ap- 
pressed, tumid and coriaceous, adnate with the branch for half their length, 
broadly ovate, sub-acute, margins faintly ciliated. Flowers in terminal 3-8- 
flowered heads, sessile ; sepals ovate-lanceolate with a strong median nervo 
ciliated. Corolla tube short, limb }"-}" in diameter, whitish. Capsulo 
ovate acuminate, longer than the sepals, slightly tumid and notched at the 
apex. 
Hab: South Island—Nelson, Upper Wairau and Amuri 8-4,500 feet, 
T. Kirk. Source of the Rangitata, 4-6,000 feet, J. F. and J. D. Armstrong. 
Our plant presents the appearance of a hybrid between V. salicornioides 
and V. hectori, and must, I think, be considered of doubtful specific validity. 
In its robust habit and subacute appressed leaves, it resembles V. hector? ; 
it is more closely allied to V. salicornivides by the inflorescence and capsule, 
as well as by the arrangement of the appressed leaves, the upper portion 
being free and widened out, so that cach pair of leaves forms a minuto 
funnel-shaped cup surrounding the branch, and presenting a curious articu- 
lated appearance resembling some corallines. 
The appressed leaves are not constantly ciliated in any of tho forms 
belonging to this section, and in this respect vary greatly even on the samo 
branch. The same remark applies to the glandular dotting of the leaves, 
which is characteristic of V. hectori, V. armstrongii, and V. salicornioides—at 
least I do not find tho leaves truly connato in eithor plant, although in closo 
contact for the length of their baso, 
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