466 Transactions. — Botany. 



Hah : South Island — month of the Grey Eiver, A. Hamilton. Stewart 

 Island (specimens not in flower, and identification therefore uncertain), 

 D. Petrie. 



The nearest ally of our plant is Plantago uniflora of the Euahine 

 Mountains, which at present has only been collected by its discoverer, Mr. 

 Colenso. P. hamUtoni is distinguished by the ovate, obtuse sepals, pro- 

 minent midrib, the flowers on abbreviated scapes which elongate as the 

 capsule approaches matmity, and especially by the capsule, which is the 

 largest in the genus. 



Mr. Petrie's specimens, from marshes on Stewart Island, are less 

 hairy than those from the Grey, and the leaves are not so strongly toothed ; 

 but these characters vary greatly in all species of Plantago, and in this case 

 are partly due to difference of habitat, Mr. Hamilton's plants having been 

 collected on shingle. 



I have great pleasure in associating the name of its enthusiastic dis- 

 coverer with this interesting species. 



Akt. LXXVII. — Notice of the Discovery of Calceolaria repens, Hook. /., 

 and other Plants in the Wellington District. By Haeey Bobeer Kiek. 

 Communicated by Mr. T. Kiek, F.L.S. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 1st March, 1879.] 



DuEiNG a walking excursion from Wellington to the Wah'arapa, returning 

 by the coast, I was fortunate enough to find in a small gully on the Eimu- 

 taka mountains, several plants of Calceolaria rejyens, hitherto, I beheve, 

 unknown in this district. The plants grew on the side of the guUy, on a 

 mass of loose, crumbling rock, covered with dead leaves and rotten twigs. 



C. repens is a small, creeping plant, with slender stems and alternate, 

 ovate, deeply serrate leaves, the whole slightly pubescent. The flowers 

 are distant and borne in three- to six-flowered panicles. They are small 

 and white, with a few purple spots on the throat. The two lobes of the 

 corolla are nearly equal. 



The plant was first discovered by Mr. Colenso, in the Euahine moun- 

 tains. My father's herbarium contains specimens from the East Cape, 

 collected by the Venerable Archdeacon "Williams. It has, I believe, been 

 collected at Mount Egmont by Mr. J. Buchanan, but is not mentioned in 

 his list of Taranaki plants. As these were its only known habitats, its 

 occurrence in the Kimutaka range shows a great extension of its limit 

 southward* 



