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5-lobed, imbricate in bud, throat often closed with swellings or scales oppo- 
site the lobes. Stamens 5, inserted in the throat of the corolla, included or 
exserted. Anthers with 2 parallel cells. Ovary deeply 4-lobed, 4-celled ; 
style inserted between the lobes, stigma capitellate ; ovule 1 in each cell. 
Fruit of 4 simple, smooth crested spinous or winged nuts, often resembling 
naked seeds. Embryo straight ; albumen little or 0. 
A large Natural Order, especially iu Europe and oriental regions ; also found all over the 
globe. The above character does not include the tribe Cordiace a, of which there is no 
New Zealand representative, and which includes shrubs and large trees, with the leaves often 
serrated, the ovary not lobed, and the fruit a 4-celled drupe or nut. 
Corolla salver-shaped. Stamens included. Nuts minute, polished . . 1. Myosotis. 
Corolla more or less campanulatc. Stamens exserted. Nuts minute, 
polished 2. Exarrhkna. 
Corolla rotate. Nuts large, with broad wings 3. Mysohdium. 
1. MYOSOTIS, Linn. 
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves usually spathulate or ovate, radical 
petioled, cauline sessile. Flowers small, in scorpioid racemes, or solitary and 
axillary, or solitary sessile and terminal. — Calyx 5-lobed or -partite. Co- 
rolla slender, long or short, cylindric; limb expanded; lobes 5, patent; 
throat with 5 swellings. Stamens 5 ; anthers sessile or filaments very short, 
included. Nuts minute, ovoid, compressed, very shining. 
A large European genus, to which the “ Forget-me-not ” belongs. Three New Zealand 
species differ from all their congeners in having solitary sessile terminal flowers. 
1. Flowers solitary , sessile, terminal. Leaves small, imbricate. 
Stems 1 in., tufted. Leaves narrow linear-oblong 1. M. uniflora. 
Stems 1 in., tufted. Leaves broadly oblong-quadrate 2. M. pulvinaris. 
Stems 1 in., tufted. Leaves broadly obovate-spathulate 3. iJ/. Hectori. 
2. Flowers all solitary and in the axils of the leaves or beloio them. 
Leaves distant, petioled. Flowers pedicelled 4. M. spathulata. 
Leaves close-set, sessile. Flowers minute, sessile 5. M. antarctica. 
3. Flowers all in terminal racemes, or the lower only axillary. 
Erect, very hispid. Flowers all racemose. Pedicels short. Nuts ovoid, 
black 6. 31. australis. 
Prostrate, slender. Lower flowers axillary. Petioles and pedicels 
slender. Nuts orbicular, pale 7 . M. Forsteri. 
Stout, erect. Petioles broad. Flowers pedicelled. Calyx-hairs ap- 
pressed 8. 31. capitata. 
Stout, erect, very hispid. Flowers sessile. Calyx-hairs speading . . 9. M. Traversil 
1. M. uniflora, Hook.f., n, sp. A small, densely-tufted, much-branched 
perennial, forming rounded masses ; hoary with appressed, rigid, spicular 
hairs, that are rough under the microscope ; root woody, tortuous ; branches 
slender, erect, fascicled, in. high, densely leafy throughout. Leaves 
erect, imbricating, close-set, i in. long, sessile, narrow linear- oblong, 
obtuse, a little dilated at the base and often above the middle, nearly glabrous 
on the upper surface, rather coriaceous. Flower terminal, yellow, solitary, 
sessile, nearly ^ in. long. Calyx-lobes linear-oblong, covered with straight 
rigid hail’s. Corolla with a long, rather slender tube, twice or more as long 
as the calyx ; lobes short, rounded. Stamens included. Nuts ovoid, 
acute. 
