360 : 3 Transactions.— Botany. 
the ovary. Corolla 4-1 inch across, campanulate, split to below the middle 
into 4, rarely 5, sometimes only 3, rather broad obtuse lobes, which are 
covered more or less on both surfaces with glistening frost-like particles. 
Stamens seated on the corolla, always the same in number as-the lobes and 
alternate with them. Styles 2, shorter than the stamens, united almost 
throughout their whole length, with the tips divergent and surmounted by 
unequal sized pinhead-shaped stigmas. Ovary inferior, distinctly 2-celled 
glandular. Fruit not seen. Other characters as in genus. 
Hab.—On dry banks at Fairlie Creek, County of Geraldine; 15 Dec., 
1880.—Mr. J. F. Armstrong. Also in Selwyn County about 1868, by the 
same collector. 
The discovery of a second species of woodroof in New Zealand is highly 
interesting. The present seems sufficiently distinct from A. perpusilla, 
Hk. fil. in the perennial habit, absence of awns on the leaves, the larger 
size and peduncled clustered flowers; the latter character, however, is liable 
to vary. The plant is evidently very local, and should be sought for in sub- 
alpine and upland localities. Like so many other species of the genus it is 
very difficult to determine when dried, and the above description has been 
drawn up from living plants. It is, to my mind, somewhat curious that this 
plant should possess, in common with the British A. odorata and other 
species from distant countries, such apparently unimportant characters as 
the frost-like particles on the corolla and the unevenness in the size of the 
stigmas. The flowers are exceedingly sweet-scented when fresh, and while 
drying the leaves emit a smell of newly mown hay, but in a less degree than 
the common British species. The plant is extremely pretty on account of 
the immense number of flowers it produces, and might prove a useful plant 
for rock-work if it should prove amenable to cultivation. 
Viola hydrocotyloides, n. sp. 
‘ The Water-penny Violet. : 
Diff. char.—Stems creeping, hairy, perennial. Leaves reniform, hairy. 
Flowers solitary, axillary. 
