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  Transactions. 
  — 
  Botany. 
  

  

  excessively 
  crowded 
  branclilets, 
  and 
  narrow 
  leaves. 
  In 
  the 
  inflorescence 
  it 
  

   ai^proacbes 
  most 
  closely 
  to 
  the 
  former, 
  but 
  differs 
  in 
  the 
  narrow 
  involucral 
  

   scales 
  with 
  green 
  tips, 
  and 
  the 
  longer 
  involucres. 
  The 
  leaves 
  are 
  less 
  

   evidently 
  reticulate 
  on 
  both 
  surfaces. 
  

  

  Raoulia 
  apice-nigra. 
  

  

  A 
  small 
  densely-tufted 
  plant, 
  forming 
  compact 
  masses, 
  2-5 
  inches 
  in 
  

   height. 
  Leaves 
  densely 
  imbricated, 
  ovate 
  spathulate, 
  obtuse, 
  covered 
  with 
  

   snow-white 
  loosely 
  appressed 
  hairs. 
  Heads 
  •^"-i"long; 
  involucral 
  scales 
  

   linear 
  with 
  scarious 
  margins 
  and 
  black 
  tips. 
  Pappus 
  hairs 
  white, 
  scabrid 
  

   near 
  the 
  tip, 
  but 
  more 
  thickened. 
  Achenes 
  glabrous. 
  

  

  Hah: 
  South 
  Island 
  — 
  Mount 
  Monro, 
  Awatere, 
  5-600 
  feet, 
  P. 
  McBae 
  

   and 
  T. 
  Kirk. 
  Ben 
  Lomond, 
  Otago, 
  5,500, 
  D. 
  Petrie. 
  

  

  A 
  singular 
  plant 
  : 
  immediately 
  before 
  flowering 
  the 
  heads 
  are 
  black 
  and 
  

   glossy, 
  presenting 
  a 
  marked 
  contrast 
  to 
  the 
  snow-white 
  leaves. 
  It 
  is 
  most 
  

   closely 
  allied 
  to 
  R. 
  australis, 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  distinguished 
  by 
  the 
  black- 
  

   tipped 
  involucral 
  leaves. 
  

  

  ScROPHULAKINEiE. 
  

  

  Veronica 
  armstrongii. 
  

  

  A 
  dwarf 
  much-branched 
  shrub, 
  1-3 
  feet 
  high. 
  Leaves 
  minute, 
  dimor- 
  

   phic. 
  1, 
  linear, 
  patent, 
  or 
  sub-patent 
  tV'"!" 
  lo^g) 
  acute. 
  2, 
  closely 
  ap- 
  

   pressed, 
  tumid 
  and 
  coriaceous, 
  adnate 
  with 
  the 
  branch 
  for 
  half 
  their 
  length, 
  

   broadly 
  ovate, 
  sub-acute, 
  margins 
  faintly 
  ciliated. 
  Flowers 
  in 
  terminal 
  3-8- 
  

   flowered 
  heads, 
  sessile 
  ; 
  sepals 
  ovate-lanceolate 
  with 
  a 
  strong 
  median 
  nerve 
  

   ciliated. 
  Corolla 
  tube 
  short, 
  limb 
  ^'-^' 
  in 
  diameter, 
  whitish. 
  Capsule 
  

   ovate 
  acuminate, 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  sepals, 
  sUghtly 
  tumid 
  and 
  notched 
  at 
  the 
  

   apex. 
  

  

  Hah: 
  South 
  Island 
  — 
  Nelson, 
  Upper 
  Wairau 
  and 
  Amuri 
  3-4,500 
  feet, 
  

   T. 
  Kirk. 
  Source 
  of 
  the 
  Eangitata, 
  4-6,000 
  feet, 
  J. 
  F. 
  and 
  J. 
  B. 
  Armstrong, 
  

  

  Our 
  plant 
  presents 
  the 
  appearance 
  of 
  a 
  hybrid 
  between 
  V. 
  salicornioides 
  

   and 
  V. 
  liectori, 
  and 
  must, 
  I 
  think, 
  be 
  considered 
  of 
  doubtful 
  specific 
  validity. 
  

   In 
  its 
  robust 
  habit 
  and 
  subacute 
  appressed 
  leaves, 
  it 
  resembles 
  F. 
  heciori 
  ; 
  

   it 
  is 
  more 
  closely 
  allied 
  to 
  V. 
  salicornioides 
  by 
  the 
  inflorescence 
  and 
  capsule, 
  

   as 
  well 
  as 
  by 
  the 
  arrangement 
  of 
  the 
  appressed 
  leaves, 
  the 
  upper 
  portion 
  

   being 
  free 
  and 
  widened 
  out, 
  so 
  that 
  each 
  pair 
  of 
  leaves 
  forms 
  a 
  minute 
  

   funnel-shaped 
  cup 
  surrounding 
  the 
  branch, 
  and 
  presenting 
  a 
  curious 
  articu- 
  

   lated 
  appearance 
  resembling 
  some 
  corallines. 
  

  

  The 
  appressed 
  leaves 
  are 
  not 
  constantly 
  ciliated 
  in 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  forms 
  

   belonging 
  to 
  this 
  section, 
  and 
  in 
  this 
  respect 
  vary 
  greatly 
  even 
  on 
  the 
  same 
  

   branch. 
  The 
  same 
  remark 
  applies 
  to 
  the 
  glandular 
  dotting 
  of 
  the 
  leaves, 
  

   which 
  is 
  characteristic 
  of 
  F. 
  hectori, 
  V. 
  armstrongii, 
  and 
  F. 
  salicornioides 
  — 
  at 
  

   least 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  find 
  the 
  leaves 
  truly 
  connate 
  in 
  either 
  plant, 
  although 
  in 
  close 
  

   contact 
  for 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  their 
  base* 
  

  

  