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Plate XXX., fig. 8, plant nat. size; 8a, 3b, leaves, back and front 
views ; 8 ¢, floret; 3d, scale; 8 e, pappus hair, much enlarged. 
A very distinct little species, much smaller than Haastia pulvinaris, 
covered with soft, white, cottony wool, and with long silky hairs on the 
achene. 
Named in honour of H. F. Logan, whose zeal in botanical science has 
added much to our knowledge of the flora of the North Island. 
Phyllacne haastji, Berggen. 
Helophyllum colensoi, Hook. fil. Handb. N.Z. Flora, vol. i., p. 168. 
Stems 1-1} inch long, with the leaves on } inch diameter. Leaves 
obtuse, broad at the base. Flowers with the staminal column much 
exserted. 
Hab.—North Island: Tararua Mountains, 4,500 feet alt.; South Island : 
Mount Alta, 5,000 feet alt.—Buchanan and McKay, 1881. 
Plate XXXL, fig. 1, plant nat. size; 14, branch, enlarged ; 16, flower, 
much enlarged ; 1c, 1c’, 1c’, flower bracts; 1d, 1d’,14’, sepals ; 1e, leaf, 
enlarged. 
Helophyllum rubrum, Hook. fil. 
Handb. N.Z. Flora, vol. i., p. 168. 
| Stems much shorter than the last. Leaves narrow, coriaceous, with 
thick knobs. Flowers white, becoming bright red when dry. Corolla 5-7- 
left, column included, or slightly exserted. 
Hab.—South Island: Mount Aspiring range, 5,000 feet alt.—Buchanan 
and McKay, 1881. 
Plate XXXL, fig. 2, plant nat. size; 2a, plant enlarged ; 2 4, flower 
much larger; 2 c, 2c’, 2c’, flower bracts ; 2d, 2d’, sepals; 2¢, 2e’, leaves. 
The present two plants are but little known, and may be considered rare, 
no doubt they are often overlooked when not in flower by the few who 
Venture into their habitats plant-collecting. H. rubrum, fil., has not 
_ been seen till the present time, so far as known, since its first discovery on 
Dr. Hector’s expedition to the West Coast of Otago in 1860. The peculiarity 
in this species is its white flowers becoming bright red when dry, hence its 
ame, 
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* Veronica mielleri, Buch., 0.3. 1 
A low fiexuose, straggling, prostrate, glabrous or p am Bee 
6-18 inches long, rooting along its numerous branches. Leaves shortly 
Petioled, 4-3 inch long, ovate, ovate-oblong or. Einsex oblong, .eur% o 
and sitting among the leaves. Pedicels ~q-} inch long. Sepals + inch 
Tong, very obtuse. Corolla } inch diameter, dark pink, tube long, stamens 
