Colenso. — Descriptions of new Indigenous Plants. 245 



Hab. Damp cliffy clayey sides of the River Mangatawhainui (a feeder 

 of the River Manawatu) near Norsowood, County of Waipawa; 1883: W.C. 

 Flowering in December, with the dead leaves and flowering panicles of the 

 former year still strongly adhering. 



Obs. A species allied to G. lyallii, trinerve, and keriense. From its 

 diffuse flourishing growth, peculiar habit, and numerous heads of pure 

 white flowers, this plant looks exceedingly well in its native home. It 

 clings strongly to the cliffs, like ivy, only its rootlets are very much longer, 

 extending some inches each way. 

 2. Gnaphalium sub-riyidum, sp. nov. 



Plant bushy, loosely spreading ; stems many from one root, woody, 

 ascending, very slender, 12-20 inches long, 1-1^ lines diameter, of uniform 

 thickness, brittle, branched and naked below, simple and leafy above, 

 scarred throughout ; bark dark brown. Leaves rather closely- set, scattered 

 or somewhat whorled, patent, sub-coriaceous, linear, 8-12 lines long, 1-1J 

 lines broad, sub-acute and apiculate, flat, sessile and half-clasping, glabrous, 

 shining and reddish above, white and cottony below ; margins entire, re- 

 curved, very thick and shining ; midrib stout and prominent below ; veinlets 

 anastomosing. Heads of flowers white, numerous, 10-20 at tips of branches, 

 in lax sub-fascicled corymbs, on slender nodding white and cottony peduncles 

 and pedicels of various lengths 3-9 lines long, some 1-, others 2- and 

 3-flowered, all with long foliaceous narrow bracts, often each pedicel is bi- 

 bracteolate ; heads J-inch diameter ; involucral scales white and spreading, 

 oblong, obtuse, rarely notched at tips, margins entire, claw short, greenish- 

 brown, glabrous ; florets very numerous, at first yellow, afterwards with a 

 dull reddish tinge ; receptacle flat with a raised flat centre, densely and 

 minutely rugged ; pappus few, very slender, weak, slightly scabrid and 

 jointed. Achene short, linear, sub-acute at tip, glabrous. 



Hab. Dry hilly country west side of Ruataniwha Plains, County of 

 Waipawa ; 1884 : Mr. H. Hill. Flowering in September. 



Obs. A species pretty near to G. keriense, A. Cunn., var. linifolia, J. D. 

 Hooker. 



Order LHI. SCROPHULARINE^E. 

 Genus 4. Gratiola, Linn. 

 1. Gratiola glandulifera, sp. nov. 



Plant creeping at root, glabrous, stems erect and ascending, 6-12 inches 

 high, simple and branched, stout, semi- succulent, sub-quadrangular, 

 obtusely-angled, deeply channelled on two sides, purple-red, with a few weak 

 and short scattered hairs. Leaves ovate, 4-6 lines long, 2-3 lines wide, 

 obtuse, sessile, half-clasping, thickish, 3-nerved, serrate, sub 6 (generally 

 4) teeth, teeth and tip dark purple, Flowers few, axillary, solitary, 



