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peduncled, peduncles about 1 line long : calyx 5-leaved, leaves linear- 

 acuminate, 1-nerved, green, longer than capsule, obtuse, somewhat knobbed 

 and purple-tipped, each leaflet having a row of sub-succulent white hairs 

 down the nerve on the outside : corolla -| inch long, pubescent, limb white ; 

 upper lip 2-lobed, sometimes purple-margined ; lower lip 3-lobed, lobes all 

 very obtuse ; tube yellowish, purple-striped, throat above thickly clothed 

 with golden glandular hairs, and on each side a single row of similar hairs. 

 Capsule broadly-ovoid. 



Hab. In boggy spots, edges of water-courses near Norsewood, County 

 of Waipawa ; 1884 ; but very local ; flowering in March : W.G. 



Obs. A species having pretty close natural affinity with G. sexdentata, 

 A. Cunn. (? G. peruviana, Benth.), but apparently differing in several 

 characters, the chief one being the thick glandular pubescence lining the 

 corolla. 



Genus 9. Ourisia, Comm. 

 1. Ourisia robusta, sp. nov. 



Erect, glabrous, scape, sparingly pilose. 



Leaves radical broadly- ovate, obtuse, deeply crenate or sub-crenate- 

 serrate, teeth apicular, each with a gland-like circular brownish dot on 

 upper surface within margin, triple-ribbed, veins very stout and prominent 

 below, lamina 6 inches long, thickish, slightly decurrent ; petioles same 

 length, thick, sub-succulent, deeply canaliculate, edges purple and slightly 

 hairy. Scape 1^-2 feet high, very stout, 5 lines diameter, septangular 

 and sulcated, purple-striped, bearing long white jointed and weak hairs 

 scattered on its angles. Bracts, or floral leaves, on the scape all 

 whorled, lowermost 5-8 (generally 8), broadly lanceolate, 2| inches long, 

 serrate, margins purple, 5-nerved to base of petiole ; petioles long- 

 broad and flat, edges hairy; upper whorls of bracts very numerous (00), 

 serrate, decreasing gradually in size to the apex. Flowers umbelled in 

 distant whorls, generally nine ; pedicels 1-| inches long, rather slender, 

 sub-angular, purple-striped, covered with thick glandular pubescence ; calyx 

 5-partite, glabrous, purple- striped, lobes linear-subulate, 1-nerved, 5 lines 

 long, obtuse and thickened at tips ; tips recurved, margins purple ; corolla 

 large 11 lines diameter, white within, purple and purple- striped on the 

 outside ; throat yellow-green, densely clothed with numerous jointed and 

 sub-clavate succulent hairs of the same colour ; tube short 3 lines long ; 

 lamina spreading 5 lines long, lobes large, retuse, veined ; veins obtusely 

 angled and rounded. Capsules orbicular-oblong, broadest at base, turgid, 

 glabrous, purple- spotted on top, much smaller than calyx lobes. 



Hab. In gullies on the high lands west of Napier, between Napier and 

 Taupo; 1883: Mr, H, Hill. 



