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  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* 
  

  

  