422 gUBANTARCTIC ISLAN'DS OF JSTEW ZEALAND. [Systematic Botany. 



stems, with the leaves more remote and the flowers in rather lax corymbs. Judging 

 from his own specimens and from those brought back by the expedition, it appears 

 certain that these two forms are directly connected by intermediates, A remark- 

 ably slender state collected by Mr. Aston on Disappointment Island, with long and 

 narrow linear-spathulate leaves, looks more distinct, but it is, unfortunately, not in 

 flower. 



Gentiana concinna, Hook. f. 



Gentiana concinna, Hook, f., Fl. Antarct., i, 53, t. 35 (1844). G. cerina, 

 var. concinna, T. Kirk in Trans, N.Z. Inst., xxvii, 329 (1895). 



Auckland Islands : Open places on the hills, abundant ; Hooker, Kirk ! Chap- 

 man ! Cockayne ! Aston ! (Endemic.) 



A charming little plant, excellently figured by Hooker in the " Flora Antarctica.'' 

 Kirk considered it to be a form of the preceding, and it is certainly a close ally ; 

 but it appears to be sufficiently distinct in the annual duration, the more erect habit 

 of growth, and the smaller size of all its parts. Kirk remarks that it is usually found 

 on the surface of the masses of Trichocolea tomentella and other Hepaticae, which 

 often cover the ground in sheltered localities in the Auckland Islands. 



Gentiana antarctica, T. Kirk. 



Gentiana antarctica, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxvii, 339 (1895). G. 

 concinna, var. robusta, Hook, f., Fl. Antarct., i, 53 (1844). 



Campbell Island : Not uncommon on the hills ; Hooker, Kirk ! Laing ! Cham- 

 bers ! (Endemic.) 



Chiefly distinguished by the pale greenish-yellow hue of the entire plant, by 

 the stout erect habit, by the minutely verrucose surface of all its parts, and by the 

 much-branched slender inflorescence, the flowers being almost hidden among the 

 crowded cauline leaves and bracts. Kirk's var. imbricata is not verrucose, the leaves 

 are more coriaceous, and the flowers are larger. 



Gentiana antipoda, T. Kirk. 



Gentiana antipoda, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxvii, 340 (1895). 



Antipodes Island : Abundant ; Kirk ! Cockayne ! (Endemic.) 

 Closely allied to the preceding species, from which it mainly differs in the more 

 numerous stems and narrower Ungulate leaves. Mr. Kirk remarks that there are 

 two trivial forms or states — one, 'pallida, with yellow stems and delicate white 

 flowers ; the other, rubra, with red stems and white flowers longitudinally veined 

 with red. 



BORAGINACEAE. 



Myosotis antarctica, Hook. f. 



Myosotis antarctica, Hook, f., Fl. Antarct., i, 57, t. 38 (1844). 



Campbell Island : Rocky debris at the base of precipices and in clefts on the 

 summits of the mountains ; Hooker : Venus Cove, Laing ! (specimens very imma- 

 ture, and possibly not referable to this species). (New Zealand, from the Auckland 

 Isthmus southwards.) 



