Bucnanan.—On the Alpine Flora of New Zealand. 347 
Lobelia roughii, Hook. f. 
A small glabrous alpine plant, full of white acrid fluid. Leaves 4-1 
inch long, petioled, ovate or obovate, acute, deeply toothed or lobed, the 
sinus often round, more or less reticulated on 5-7 leading nerves, coria- 
ceous. Peduncles erect, axillary, 1-1} inches long, growing out as the fruit 
ripens, 1-flowered, calyx tube globose, lobes linear, obtuse, coriaceous. 
Corolla 5-partite, but by the frequent union of three lobes, 3-partite, lobes 
long, very narrow, round at top. Anthers glabrous, united round the style 
and supported by the filaments. Capsule ovoid, }-} inch long. 
Hab.—Lake Ohou Mountains; alt., 5,000 feet on loose shingle.— 
Buchanan and MeKay, 1882. 
Plate XXVIII. fig. 1, plant nat. size; 1, capsule with adherent 
anthers; 1 5, b', b”, lobes of corolla, 1- and 8-partite; 1 ¢, anther. 
A remarkable little alpine plant with smooth purplish green foliage, 
found always on shingle slopes, often getting buried by the sliding debris, — 
and generally growing up again through deposits of several feet. 
Logania tetragona, Hook. fil. 
A small coriaceous prostrate plant, branches ascending, 1-3 inches long, 
} inch diameter. Leaves closely 4-fariously imbricate, erect or spreading, 
linear obovate, rounded at the tip, entire, concave, ciliate on the margins of 
the lower half, connate in pairs at base. Flowers solitary, terminal, sepals 
5, rugose and pubescent on the lower half, corolla 5-lobed, 4 inch diameter, 
tube short, stamens 2, inserted within the mouth of the corolla, anthers 
large, 2-cleft half-way up, capsule ovate, 2-valved. 
Hab.—South Island: Mount Alta, 5,000 feet alt.—Buchanan and MoKay, 
1881, 
Plate XX VII, fig. 2, plant, nat. size; 2a, nak 2 b, flower ieee 
2c, sepal. i 
Not uncommon on the mountains, and easily mistaken for a Veronica, 
more especially as all the specimens collected were found to have only 2 
stamens. 
Logania armstrongti, Buch., n.s. 
A small rigid, close-branched Leena =. a et Hii 
inches long, 3-2 inch diameter. Leaves 4-farious 
obtuse, entire, ee 
in pairs at the base. Flowers solitary, terminal. Sepals 5, ciliate over the 
whole margins and back. Corolla 5-lobed, 4 inch diameter, tube short. 
Stamens 2, anthers 2-cleft half-way up, inserted within the mouth of the 
Corolla. Sots ciliate on the top, 2-valved. , 
| Jas 7 ining, 5,000 feet alt,— : 
