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peduneled, peduncles about 1 line long: calyx 5-leaved, leaves linear- 
acuminate, 1-nerved, green, longer than capsule, obtuse, somewhat knobbed 
and purple-tipped, each leaflet having a row of sub-suceulent white hairs 
down the nerve on the outside: corolla 4 inch long, pubescent, limb white ; 
upper lip 2-lobed, sometimes purple-margined ; lower lip 3-lobed, lobes all 
very obtuse; tube yellowish, purple-striped, throat above thickly clothed 
with golden glandular hairs, and on each side a single row of similar hairs. 
Capsule broadly-ovoid. 
Hab. In boggy spots, edges of water-courses near Norsewood, County 
of Waipawa ; 1884; but very local; flowering in March: W.C. 
Obs. A species having pretty close natural affinity with G. sevdentata, 
A. Cunn. (? G. peruviana, Benth.), but apparently differing in several 
characters, the chief one being the thick glandular pubescence lining the 
corolla. 
Genus 9. Ourisia, Comm. 
1. Ourisia robusta, sp. nov. 
Erect, glabrous, scape, sparingly pilose. 
Leaves radical broadly-ovate, obtuse, deeply crenate or sub-crenate- 
serrate, teeth apicular, each with a gland-like circular brownish dot on 
upper surface within margin, triple-ribbed, veins very stout and prominent 
below, lamina 6 inches long, thickish, slightly decurrent ; petioles same 
length, thick, sub-succulent, deeply canaliculate, edges purple and slightly 
hairy. Scape 14-2 feet high, very stout, 5 lines diameter, septangular. 
and suleated, purple-striped, bearing long white jointed and weak hairs 
scattered on its angles. Bracts, or floral leaves, on the scape all 
whorled, lowermost 5-8 (generally 8), broadly lanceolate, 23 inches long, 
serrate, margins purple, 5-nerved to base of petiole; petioles long 
broad and flat, edges hairy; upper whorls of bracts very numerous (00), 
serrate, decreasing gradually in size to the apex. Flowers umbelled in 
distant whorls, generally nine; pedicels 14 inches long, rather slender, 
sub-angular, purple-striped, covered with thick glandular pubescence; calyx 
5-partite, glabrous, purple-striped, lobes linear-subulate, 1-nerved, 5 lines 
long, obtuse and thickened at tips; tips recurved, margins purple; corolla 
large 11 lines diameter, white within, purple and purple-striped on the 
outside ; throat yellow-green, densely clothed with numerous jointed and 
sub-clavate succulent hairs of the same colour ; tube short 3 lines long ; 
lamina spreading 5 lines long, lobes large, retuse, veined ; veins obtusely 
angled and rounded. Capsules orbicular-oblong, broadest at base, turgid, 
glabrous, purple-spotted on top, much smaller than calyx lobes. 
Hab. In gullies on the high lands west of Napier, between Napier and 
Taupo; 1888; Mr, H, Hill, 
