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l. boraginea:. 
[ ExarrJiena . 
3. E. Xjyallii, Hook. f. — Myosotis Lyallii, El. N. Z. i. 202. A rather 
short and stout tufted perennial, slightly hispid with appressed hairs. 
Stems several from the root, erect or ascending, rather stout, 2-6 in. high. 
Leaves: radical oblong-spathulate or obovate-lanceolate, subacute, 1-1^- in. 
long, narrowed into rather slender petioles ; cauline narrow linear-oblong or 
oblong-spathulate ; all slightly hispidulous on both surfaces with appressed 
hairs. Raceme short, simple or forked. Flowers very shortly pedicelled. 
Calyx ^ in. long, hispid with appressed or patent, simple and hooked bristles. 
Corolla i— I in. long; tube cylindric, longer than the calyx; lobes short, 
rounded. Stamens with long slender filaments ; anthers linear. Nuts broadly 
ovate or orbicular, very black and shining. 
Middle Island : Milford Sound, Lyall. Habit of a small specimen of Myosotis capitata, 
but the flower is very different. I have but two specimens. 
4. El. saxosa, Hook. f. — Myosotis saxosa, FI. N. Z. i. 202. A small, 
rigid, prostrate perennial, more or less densely hispid (sometimes white) with 
rather spreading white hairs. Stems 2-6 in. long, rather stout, leafy, 
prostrate ; racemiferous branches ascending, stout or slender. Leaves : radical 
obovate- or lanceolate-spathulate, acute, f- in. long, narrowed into a broad 
or narrow petiole, rather harsh and rigid, uniformly hispid-pilose on both 
surfaces ; cauline linear-oblong, in. long. Raceme small, few-flowered. 
Flowers nearly sessile. Calyx | in. long, deeply partite ; lobes linear, 
acute. Corolla-tube cylindric, short or rather elongate ; lobes short, rounded, 
i in. diam. Stamens exserted ; filaments slender ; anthers linear-oblong. 
Nuts in. long, narrow linear-oblong. 
northern Island: east coast, crags at Tetiokura, Colenso (very white and hispid). 
Middle Island : Dun mountain, in open stony places, Munro, Travers (much less hispid). 
3. MYOSOTIDIITM, Hook. 
A succulent herb, 1-3 ft. high, perennial or biennial. Leaves large, lower 
petioled, ovate, obtuse, with parallel veins. Flowers pale blue, in dense 
branched scorpioid racemes. — Calyx 5-partite. Corolla rotate ; lobes 5, 
rounded, expanded ; throat closed with 5 protuberances. Stamens 5, in- 
serted within the tube ; anthers included. Ovary 4-lobed ; style very short, 
stigma capitate. Fruit large, between globose and pyramidal, 4-angled, 
of 4 dorsally much-flattened coriaceous winged nuts, adhering to a central 
fleshy column. 
A remarkable genus, perhaps too near to Cynoglossum and Omphalodes, differing from the 
former in the margined nuts, which do not bear barbed bristles, and from the latter in the 
wing of the nut not being indexed ; all should probably merge into one genus. 
1. M. nobile, Hook. Hot. May. t. 5137. Stem stout, pilose. Radical 
leaves a span long, broadly ovate or ovate-cordate, very thick and fleshy, gla- 
brous, shining, bright green ; cauline sessile, oblong. Racemes collected 
into a dense large subglobose head, 2-5 in. diam. Flowers pedicelled. 
Calyx-lobes oblong, obtuse, hispid. Corolla | in. diam., deep azure in the 
centre with a purple eye, fading towards the ends of the lobes. Fruit as 
large as a hazel-nut. — Cynoglossum nobile , Hook. f. in Gard. Chron. 1858, 
p. 240. 
