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flowers solitary shortly pedicelled 2-3-bracteate; bracts and sepals 
ovate, acuminate, ciliate at the margin; lobes of the rather large 
corolla ovate, cordate; the anthers larger than the filaments and 
attached to them below the middle; ovary oval; stigma capitate sub- 
lobate; the lobes of the pendulous 5-partite placenta aleform 
(= aleformibus) triquetrous. 
PLANTAGO. Lin. 
Plantago triandra, u.sp. (Berggren.)—Small; leaves rosulate, | 
linear, entire, or lanceolate sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid, hispid above; 
peduncles very short, one-flowered; flowers subsessile sunk in the wool 
of the axils; bracts (or bracts along with sepals) four, minute, ovate, 
obtuse; tube of corolla long, limb 3-fid; stamens 3; capsule oval, 
scarious, 15-30 seeded; seeds rounded-ovate polygonous then convex 
(polygonis hinc convexis). 
Habitat: Kelly’s Hill, Otira River, South Island. 
This species differs from all its congeners in the solitary flowers 
subsessile in the woolly leaf-axil, the three-lobed triandrous corolla, 
the very minute sepals, the scarious capsule, and numerous seeds. 
KELLERIA, Endl. 
(Drapetes of the Genera Plantarum.) 
Kelleria (Drapetes) villosa, nu.sp. (Berggren).—Hoary; stem 
fruticose, prostrate, rooting ; the ascending stout branches and the 
branchlets opposite or in fascicles of three, villous, scarred; leaves. 
subulate, obtuse, concave, smooth below, the margin and back ciliate 
towards the tip; flowers in threes at the ends of the branchlets; 
perianth funnel-shaped (in the male flower) or sub-campanulate (in 
the hermaphrodite flower), villous, the tube angled, the lobes ovate 
2-clandular at the base; ovary ciliate at the top; style lateral. 
Habitat: Mt. Torlesse, 5,000 feet. 
This species is distinguished from all its congeners by its villous 
branches and branchlets, and its leaves smooth on the back without 
prominent nerves; from K. (Drapetes) Dieffenbachii (Hook.) by its 
stout branches, its leaves wider at the base, the 8 glands of the 
perianth, and its lateral style ; and from X. (Drapetes) Lyalli (Hook. f.) 
by the form of the leaves and its fascicled flowers. 
THELYMITRA. Forst. 
Thelymitra intermedia, n.sp. (Berggren).—Stem rather strict; 
flowers rose-coloured; columns three-lobed at the top, the middle lobe 
truncate-bifid entire at the margin with acute incurved lobules, the 
lateral lobes projecting forward a good way and penicillate at the tip; 
the apex of the anther exserted. 
Habitat: Dry places at the Bay of Islands, North Island. 
T. longifolia (Forst.) is distinguished from the present species by 
the middle lobe of the column being hood-shaped and exceeding in 
length the rounded-plumose lateral lobes. 
