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Discovery Peaks, alt. 5500 ft., Travers ; Waimakeriri valley, alt. 2500 ft., and Mount 
Darwin, alt. 4500-0500 ft., Haast ; Otago, lake district. Hector and Buchanan. Near 
M. capitata, but smaller, much more hispid, with often hooked bristles on the calyx, and 
nuts much longer and narrower. In the form of the flower this tends towards Exarrhena. 
2. EXAEEHEN A, Br. 
Hispid, erect, rarely prostrate herbs. Leaves, radical petioled, cauline ses- 
sile. Flowers usually large, in scorpioid cymes. — Calyx narrow, 5-lobed or 
-partite. Corolla narrow, funnel-shaped or tubular, with an expanded limb ; 
throat usually without thickenings ; lobes 5, spreading - . Stamens with long 
exserted filaments. Nuts as in Myosotis. 
An Australian, Tasmanian, and New Zealand genus, very near to Myosotis , hut no species 
of the latter genus have flowers so large and campanulate as the majority of Exarrhena 
have, and the length of the filaments, though a very variable character, is a very manifest 
one. 
Slender, diffuse, prostrate. Leaves broad, on slender petioles . . . 1. E. petiolata. 
Stout, suberect, very hispid. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla § in. long. 
Nuts linear : ... 2. E. macrantha. 
Stout, suberect, sparingly hairy. Flowers pedicelled. Calyx 5-lobed. 
Nuts broad, short, black 3 . E. Lyallii. 
Suberect, hispid. Flowers sessile. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla i— £ in. 
Nuts linear 4. E. saxoSa. 
1. E. petiolata, Hook. f. — Myosotis petiolata, FI. N. Z. i. 202. A 
slender diffuse perennial ?, covered with short scabrid or hispid hairs. Stems 
many from the root, 3-12 in. long, slender, prostrate and ascending, sparingly 
leafy. Leaves : radical and lower cauline with long slender petioles, £-2 in. 
long, rounded elliptic-oblong, apiculate, f- 1| in. long ; cauline sessile, obo- 
vate-spatliulate ; all membranous, with short scattered hairs on both surfaces. 
Racemes slender, elongate, many-flowered, simple or forked. Flowers on 
slender pedicels. Calyx i in. long, parted deeply ; lobes linear, hairs straight, 
appressed. Corolla with a very short funnel- shape tube, and 5 oblong- 
spreading lobes, in. diam. Filaments very slender, elongate ; anthers 
shortly oblong. Nuts broadly ovoid, very shining, red-brown. 
Northern Island : dry stony places and alluvial river banks, Cape Turnagain, Puehutai, 
Hawke’s Bay, etc., Colenso. Habit of Myosotis E'orsteri, but flowers totally different. 
2. E. macrantha, Hook. /., n. sp. A rather stout, suberect perennial, 
covered with appressed or spreading, rather hispid hairs. Stems 6-12 in. 
high, ascending, stout, leafy. Leaves : radical 2-4 in. long, lanceolate- 
oblong, narrowed into broad petioles; cauline 1-2 in., linear- oblong, all 
softly hispid on both surfaces. Raceme short, many-flowered, simple or 
branched, very hispid. Flowers purple or white, close-set, large, all pedi- 
celled. Calyx | in. long, deeply 5-partite ; lobes linear, hairs appressed 
or spreading, simple or hooked. Corolla in. long, tube much longer than 
the calyx, funnel- or almost bell-shaped ; lobes broad, oblong. Stamens 
exserted, filaments slender ; anthers linear. Nuts linear-oblong, in. long. 
Middle Island : Dun mountain, Sinclair; Wairau and Wai-au, on mountains, alt. 3- 
5000 ft., Travers ; Hopkins river, by waterfalls, alt. 3500 ft., Haast; Otago, Lindis Hills, 
subalpine, Hector and Buchanan. A good deal like Myosotis capitata in habit, foliage, and 
pubescence. 
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