396 Transactions.— Botany. 
SCROPHULARINEX. 
Euphrasia disperma, Hook. f, 
E. longiflora, Kirk, in Trans. N.Z. Inst. XI., p. 440. 
E. (Anagosperma) disperma, Hook. E; Ie. PL; t. 1283, 
PLAT 
E XIV. 
Stems weak, procumbent, matted, 2’-4" long, clothed with deflexed, 
often glandular hairs. Leaves small, 2"—1" long, opposite, shortly petioled 
or sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, 9-nerved, margins entire. Flowers solitary, 
axillary, on short curved pedicels, erect. Calyx deeply 4-cleft, teeth linear 
acute. Corolla erect, 1"—3" long, tube narrow at base, dilated above, upper 
lip erect, obeordate; lower lip projecting, 8-lobed, lobes equal. Stamens 4, 
anthers large, exserted, acute. Stigma circinate at the apex. Ovary 
broadly ovoid, 2-celled, cells 1-ovuled, ovules pendulous from the top of the 
ovary. Capsule (immature) oblong, slightly beaked, apparently indehiscent. 
Hab.—S8outh Island : Okarito—A. H amilton, 
In Trans. N.Z. Institute, Vol. XL, I provisionally described this singu- 
lar little plant under the name of Euphrasia longiflora, but before the publi- 
cation of that volume it was described by Sir Joseph Hooker under the 
name given above. I have therefore given a fuller description, although 
still imperfect, as the ripe fruit is unknown. 
This species is related to EF. repens, Hook. f., which at present has only 
been found at the Bluff. E. disperma is distinguished from all its congeners 
by the 1-ovuled cells, while its narrow erect corolla and entire leaves are 
prominent characters. 
Respecting E. repens and E. disperma, Sir Joseph Hooker writes in 
“ Icones Plantarum :”—“ The fruit is known in neither of these species; if 
indehiscent in both, they would form a genus instead of a subgenus, under 
whieh I now place them with the name Anayosperma from the reduced 
number of seeds." He further states that E. disperma is distinguished from 
all other Scrophularinee by its solitary ovules. 
TuvwELEZX. 
Pimelea haastii. 
A strict low-growing shrub 6-10 inches high. Branches few (?), very 
slender, white with silky hairs. Leaves in distant pairs, petioled, ascend- 
ing, narrow lanceolate, #”-1}" long, acute, hairy below, or neatly glabrous, 
margins recurved ; floral leaves similar. _ Flowers 5-8 in a head, very small, 
perianth swollen below, sessile, silky, lobes narrow, spreading; filaments 
short ; style equalling the perianth tube. Fruit not seen. - 
Hab.—South Island: Canterbury Alps—Professor von Haast, Mr, Arm- 
strong. 
Although this plant appears very different from any other New Zealand 
formit is difficult to lay down satisfactory characters apart from the foliage 
