466 Transactions.— Botany. 
Hab: South Island—mouth of the Grey River, A. Hamilion. Stewart 
Island (specimens not in flower, and identification therefore uncertain), 
D. Petrie. 
The nearest ally of our plant is Plantago uniflora of the Ruahine 
Mountains, which at present has only been collected by its discoverer, Mr. 
Colenso. P. hamilioni is distinguished by the ovate, obtuse sepals, pro- 
minent midrib, the flowers on abbreviated scapes which elongate as the 
capsule approaches maturity, and especially by the capsule, which is the 
largest in the genus. 
Mr. Petrie’s specimens, from marshes on Stewart Island, are less 
hairy than those from the Grey, and the leaves are not so strongly toothed ; 
but these characters vary greatly in all species of Plantago, and in this case 
are partly due to difference of habitat, Mr. Hamilton’s plants having been 
collected on shingle. 
I have great pleasure in associating the name of its enthusiastic dis- 
coverer with this interesting species. 
Art. LXXVII.—Notice of the Discovery of Calceolaria repens, Hook. f., 
and other Plants in the Wellington District. By Harry Borrer Kirk. 
Communicated by Mr. T. Kins, F.L.S. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 1st March, 1879.) 
Dure a walking excursion from Wellington to the Wairarapa, returning 
by the coast, I was fortunate enough to find in a small gully on the Rimu- 
taka mountains, several plants of Calceolaria repens, hitherto, I believe, 
unknown in this district. The plants grew on the side of the gully, on a 
mass of loose, crumbling rock, covered with dead leaves and rotten twigs. 
C. repens is a small, creeping plant, with slender stems and alternate, 
ovate, deeply serrate leaves, the whole slightly pubescent. The flowers 
are distant and borne in three- to six-flowered panicles. They are small 
and white, with a few purple spots on the throat. The two lobes of the 
corolla are nearly equal. 
The plant was first discovered by Mr. Colenso, in the Ruahine moun- 
tains. My father’s herbarium contains specimens from the East Cape, 
collected by the Venerable Archdeacon Williams. It has, I believe, been 
collected at Mount Egmont by Mr. J. Buchanan, but is not mentioned in 
his list of Taranaki plants. As these were its only known habitats, its 
occurrence in the Rimutaka range shows a great extension of its limit 
southward, 
