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not largely), one-third the length of filaments, very pubescent ; fruit small, 

 about 1 hue long, very hispid, sessile, dry, oval, ribbed, truncate with 

 minute persistent crown of 4-6 calycine teeth, 2 of them being usually 

 much longer and opposite. 



Hab. On dry upland heaths between Matamau and Danneverke (with 

 Viola pereodgua and Myosotis iiygmaia), 1882-83 : W.C. 



Obs. — A species having close affinity with N. setulosa, Hook. fil. 

 Genus 3. Galium, Linn. 

 Galium erythrocaulon, sp. nov. 



Plant smaU, tender, c^spitose, upright, usually 3-5 inches high, simply 

 branched at base ; stems below and rootlets bright red and naked, stems 

 above membranaceous, ciliated or hairy, with distant, white, acute, recurved 

 hairs. Leaves very small in whorls of four, sub-rotund-elliptic, \- \\ lines 

 long, 1 line broad or less, mucronate, very membranaceous, light green 

 blotched with yellow, hairy on both sides, largely and distantly ciliate, 

 spreading, sub-sessile, and very shortly petiolate, whorls distant on stalks, 

 veins anastomosing. Flowers few, mostly solitary in axils of upper leaves, 

 sometimes two on long divergent pedicels united together near base on a 

 very short peduncle, very rarely three on one peduncle, and, when so, then 

 bracteolated at junction, and the middle pedicel much the longest, simple 

 peduncles and pedicels much longer than leaves, sometimes twice as long, 

 upright ; corolla rather large, 4-parted, pink, somewhat inflated and con- 

 cave, segments broadly deltoid-ovate, 3-nerved, with three lines of erect 

 minute pubescence within on the nerves, tips sub-acute incurved ; ovarium 

 glabrous. Fruit of two globose minute carpels, dark-brown, rugulose and 

 finely muricated with black points. 



Hab. Stony declivities, skirts of dry woods between Norsewood and 

 Danneverke, Waipawa County, 1879-1882 : W.C. 



Obs. — When I first detected this plant in 1879, I supposed it to be a 

 small variety of G. wnbrosum, although its rather large and pink flowers 

 differed considerably from those of that species, which are minute and 

 white ; these characters, however, I thought to be abnormal. Subse- 

 quently (in 1882), on again meeting with this plant in another and distant 

 locality, I gathered, examined and compared it, and now I believe it to be 

 a distinct species. It is certainly distinct from A. Cunningham's G. pro- 

 pinqwum, as described by him in his "Prodromus" (a New Zealand and 

 northern species, which I also knew at the North), which Sir J. D. Hooker 

 has united with Forster's G. umbrosum, as being identical with that plant. 

 Moreover, Sir J. D. Hooker says (in his " Handbook"), that he doubts if 

 G. umbrosum is really different from his Tasmanian species, G. ciliare; 



