PErRIE.— Descriptions of New Native Flowering-plants. 97 
tube twice as long as calyx or rather more, + 15 mm. (фу in.) wide, 
lobes of limb 4 as long as tube subacute. Ripe capsules hot. seen, 
Habitat.—Margins of forest and woods, Waimarino Plain: W. Town- 
son! Н. Care! Н. B. Matthews! Kaimamawa Ran ge: B. C. Aston ! 
Named in honour of Mr. arse, whose Botanical investigations 
have been of great value. He remarks that the plant, though not 
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the present species as well as the true V. laevis, to which the former is 
certainly close. 
4. Euphrasia Wilsoni sp. nov. 
werd ? Pal ad 4-6 ет. alti, pro plantae magnitudine crassiores, 
a basi ramulis gracilibus + elongatis cum ramis bifario pubes- 
centibus. "Folia magnitudine variabilia, paribus oppositis disposita, à 
medium 4-lobatus, lobis latioribus subacutis a. marginibus revolutis ; 
corollae tubo infundibuliforme -- pubescente, labio superiore 2-lobato, 
inferiore alte 3-lobato, Les omnibus integris obtusis v. subacutis. 
apsulae maturae haud visae. 
Annual? Stems 3.75.6. 25 cm. (11—22 in.) long or less, often crowded, 
stout for size of plant, branched from s dark brown ; branchlets 
slender, often elongated, and, like stems and branches, bifariously 
pubescen nt. Leaves variable in size, in opposite pairs, lower rather 
distant, crowded towards tips of Бань sueculent when fresh, 
sessile by a broad base, + $ in. long by £in. broad about middle, cuneately 
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pressed areoles on back behind teeth and running down irregularly from 
these, bracts similar to leaves but smaller. peri axillary on rather 
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to middle, lobes broad subacute recurved at edges; corolla-tube funnel- 
shaped, more or less pubescent; upper lip shortly 2-lobed, lower deeply 
3-lobed, all the lobes entire obtuse or subacute. Fully formed capsules 
not seen 
bitat—Ruahine Range (western slopes), 3,500-5, sé R. A. Wilson ! 
Arnold Wall! B. C. Aston. Collected early in January, 19 
This very — species is named in honour of Major Robert A. 
Wilson, D.S.O., who first collected it in company with Messrs. Wall and 
Aston. In teg cimens examined there was nothing to suggest a 
perennial habit of growth. The plant, Major Wilson informs me, was 
found growing only on patches of a Raoulia and a Poa, on the roots of 
which it was more or less parasitic. Where the Raoulia had died off 
the Euphrasia had died with it, and where the Raoulia was sickly and 
decaying the Euphrasia was in the same condition. The parasitie habit 
4—Trans. 
