Ourisia.'] 
LIII. SCROPHULARINE/E. 
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5. O. csespitosa. Kook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 198. Steins creeping, stout, 
tufted, leafy, rather fleshy, with very short ascending branches, glabrous or 
loosely pilose or subtomentose. Leaves somewhat imbricate, patent, recurved, 
thickly coriaceous, | in. long, obovate-spathulate, with recurved 2- or 3- 
lobed or crenate margins, sessile or narrowed into short, glabrous or ciliate, 
stout petioles. Scape 2-3 in. high, 1-6-flowered ; bracts opposite, like the 
leaves. Flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together ; pedicels stout. Calyx 3- in. 
long, 5-lobed ; lobes oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Corolla white, in. diam. ; 
lobes short, broad. Capsule ~ in. long, ovate-oblong. 
Northern Island : tops of the Ruahine mountains, Colenso. Middle Island : Mil- 
ford Sound, Lyall ; Hurumui mountains, alt. 3-3500 ft., Travers; Southern Alps, com- 
mon at 3500-6000 ft., Haast ; Otago, lake district, alpine, alt. 6000 ft., Hector and Bu- 
chanan. 
6. O. glandulosa, Hook.f., n. sp. Stems very stout, succulent, creep- 
ing, 3-6 in. long, glabrous. Leaves usually densely 2-fariously imbricate, 
■J— | in. long, obovate-spathulate, sessile by a broad base, spreading or re- 
curved, thickly coriaceous, ciliated with stout closely articulate hairs, entire 
or obscurely crenate. Scapes stout, 1-2 in. long, with several pairs of opposite 
spathulate bracts, which as well as the scape and calyx are covered with glan- 
dular hairs. Flowers 1-3, pedicels slender. Sepals £ in. long, oblong, ob- 
tuse. Corolla white, -§■- f in. diam. 
Middle Island : Otago, lake district, alpine, alt., 5000 ft., forming large patches 
Hector and Buchanan. 
10. EUPHRASIA, Linn. 
Small or large, simple or branched, annual or perennial plants. Leaves 
small, opposite, toothed lobed or pinnatifid. — Calyx tubular or campanulate, 
4-lobed, rarely 5-lobed. Corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip concave, 2-fid, lobes 
broad spreading ; lower spreading, 3-fid, lobes obtuse emarginate. Stamens 
4, didynamous ; anther-cells nearly parallel, one or both often spurred. 
Stigma dilated. Capsule oblong, compressed, 2-valved. 
A genus of which one or two very small species are found throughout northern Europe and 
Asia, and as many in colder South America, but of which the majority are Australian and 
New Zealand. The species are difficult of discrimination and very variable. 
Flowers -§—5 in. long and broad. 
Erect, 6-30 in. high. Leaves ^-§ in., margins not revolute . . . 1 . E. cuneata. 
Erect, '3-6 in. high. Leaves A— j in. ; margins revolute 2. E. Munroi. 
Decumbent or tufted, much branched. Leaves —— J- in., margins cut 
and revolute 3 . B. revoluta. 
Flowers ^-5 in. long. 
Erect, 1-2 in. high, diffusely branched. Leaves cut ; margins revolute 4. E. antarctica. 
Creeping and rooting, 1-2 in. long. Leaves T l s in., 3-fid ; margins 
fiat 5. E. repens. 
1. E. cuneata, Forst .; — FI. N. Z. i. 199. An erect, annual, branched, 
glabrous or puberulous, leafy, slender species, 6-30 in. high. Leaves in re- 
mote pairs or fascicled on short branchlets, f in. long, obovate-oblong or 
spathulate or cuneate-oblong, rarely ovate, nan-owed into stout or slender pe- 
tioles, coarsely toothed ; margins not recurved. Flowers numerous, shortly 
peduncled. Calyx campanulate, 4-lobed ; lobes short, obtuse. Corolla 
