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\Ilelopbjllum. 
thickly coriaceous ; tips globose, shining, bright green, concave above, con- 
vex below, with an obscure glaucl on the back below the tip. Flower A — \ in. 
diam., white. Corolla 5-7-cleft. Column very shortly exserted. Stigmas 
of female flower uncinate, plumose ; of male obtuse, 4-lobed. 
Middle Island : alps of Otago, alt. 6000 ft., Hector and Buchanan. Lord Auck- 
land’s group and Campbell’s Island : abundant on the hills, J. B. H. 
2. Golensoi, Hook. /., n. sp.- — Forstera clavigera, FI. N. Z. i. 155. 
A smaller species than H. clavigera, with very much broader leaves, smaller 
flowers, and the staminal column much exserted. Flowers minute, usually 
5 -cleft, sunk amongst the uppermost leaves, white. 
Northern Island : summits of the Ruahine range, Colenso. Middle Island : Gordon’s 
Nob, Munro ; summit of Wairau range, alt. 4500 ft.; crater of a volcano near the lake 
above Tarndale, alt. 6000 ft., and Rangitata range, Sinclair ; Mount Torlesse, alt. 4500- 
6500 ft., Haast ; Otago alps, alt. 6000 ft., Hector and Buchanan. 
3. M. rubrum, Hoolc.f., n. sp. Habit and size of H. clavigerum, but 
the leaves are narrower, more coriaceous, with larger, thicker knobs. Flowers 
larger, dark red. Corolla unequally 7 -cleft. Column included. 
Middle Island : Otago, alpine, Hector and Buchanan. 
3. STYLIDIXJM, Swartz. 
Herbs, usually rigid. Leaves various, chiefly radical. — Corolla irregular, 
5-lobed, one lobe smaller and deflexed, the others ascending in pairs. Upper 
part of the staminal column bent down, and irritable at the flexure, springing 
up with elastic force when touched, and discharging the pollen. 
A very large Australian genus, with one or two East Indian species. 
Tall. Flowers spicate 1. S. graminifolium. 
Short. Flowers solitary 2. S. sululatum. 
1. S. graminifolium, Sicartz ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 333. Stems tufted, 
8-10 in. Leaves very numerous, all radical, narrow-linear, rigid, grass-like, 
2-6 in. Scape 6-18 in., rather stout, pubescent and glandular, edges ser- 
rulate to the touch. Spike 3-4 in. long. Flowers rather distant, ^ in. long, 
glandular. Calyx-lobes short, obtuse. Corolla-tube shorter than the ovary. — 
Bot. Mag. 44. t. 1918. 
Northern Island: clay-hills near Auckland, Bolton, December, 1851. Only one 
specimen found, and I suspect introduced; it is a most abundant S.E. Australian and Tas- 
manian plant. 
2. S. (?) subulatum, Hoolc.f., n. sp. A small, tufted, subsquarrose plant. 
Stems excessively short, ^ in. long. Leaves very closely imbricate at the 
base, patent and recurved, \ in. long, narrow subulate, rigid, pungent, con- 
cave above, convex at the back. Scape extremely short, stout, (and ovary) 
glandular, 1-flowered. Calyx-limb unequally 4- or 5-lobed ; lobes short, obtuse. 
Corolla-tube very short; limb irregularly 3-5 -partite ; lobes linear, obtuse. 
Column short, stout, straight? Capsule ovoid, ^ in. long, 1-celled.by the 
rupture of the septum. Seeds numerous, small, obovoid ; testa coriaceous, 
rugose, brown ; albumen very fleshy ; embryo minute, globular. 
Middle Island : Nelson mountains, Travers ; Haast. A very singular little plant, the 
flowers of which are in a very imperfect state ; it resembles Colobanthus Billardieri. 
