Euphrasia.'] 
LIII. SCROPIIULARINEAI. 
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on Mount Alta ; 1st, a slender, erect form, with peduncled flowers, alt. 1-2000 ft. ; 2nd, a 
robust spreading form -with the flowers amongst crowded, subterminal leaves, alt. 3-5000 
feet; and 3rd, a most minute form, -J- in. high, with a single flower, alt. 6000 ft. I have a 
very large robust form, from rivulets, Lake Tekapo, alt. 3500 ft. ( Haast ), with leaves and calyx 
1 in. long. This is a common Chili and Fuegian plant, and has a very nearly allied Austra- 
lian alpine representative in E. aha, F. Muell. 
5. E. repens, Hook.f. FI. N. Z. i. 200. A very small, slender, creep- 
ing, glabrous or puberulous plant, 1-2 in. long ; branches prostrate, with 
fibrous rootlets. Leaves minute, sessile, ^ in. long, in scattered pairs, 
cuneate, 3-lobed ; lobes acute, erect ; margins not recurved. Flowers axil- 
lary, shortly peduncled, large for the size of the plant, erect. Calyx oblong, 
campanulate, lobes short, acute. Corolla ^ in. long ; tube long ; upper lip 
short ; arched ; lower with 3 short lobes. Anthers all nearly glabrous ; cells 
all mucronate. Ovary pubescent ; stigma elongate. 
Middle Island : Bluff Island, Lyall. A curious little species, of which more specimens 
are much wanted. 
Order LIY. GESNERIACE^. 
{Including Ci'rtandrezE.) 
Shrubs or herbs. Leaves opposite or alternate. Flowers hermaphrodite, 
usually irregular. — Calyx inferior, 5 -toothed -lobed or -partite. Corolla 
usually 2-lipped, 5 -lobed, imbricate. Stamens 2-4, inserted on the tube 
of the corolla, with sometimes the filament of a fifth ; anthers 2-celled ; cells 
sometimes confluent. Ovary superior, 2-celled; placentas 2, parietal, some- 
times meeting in the axis ; style simple, stigma 2-lobed ; ovules numerous. 
Fruit capsular. Seeds small ; albumen fleshy or 0. 
A large Order, chiefly of tropical plants. The above character does not apply to many 
American and other genera, which have inferior ovaries and baccate fruit. 
1. RHABDOTHAMNUS, A. Cunn. 
A slender, hispid or pubescent shrub. Leaves opposite. Flowers soli- 
tary or in pairs. — Sepals 5, unequal, persistent. Corolla-tube campanulate; 
limb 2-lipped ; upper lip 2-lobed, under 3-lobed. Stamens 4, the fifth 
rudimentary ; filaments slender, arched ; anthers cohering cruciately. Disk 
thin, annular, lobed. Ovary 1 -celled, narrowed into a slender style ; stigma 
small, obtuse, 2-lobed; ovules numerous, on 2-lobed prominent placentas. 
Capsule ovoid, beaked, 2-valved ; valves 2-fid, separating from the placentas. 
Seeds very minute, albuminous. 
1. R. Solandri, A. Cunn.; — FI. N. Z. i. 186. Shrub 2-4 ft. high; 
branches opposite, hispid, terete. Leaves on slender petioles, broadly obovoid 
or orbicular, | in. diam., coarsely toothed, harsh to the touch. Flowers 
axillary or terminal ; peduncles slender, } in. long. Sepals lanceolate, 
acuminate, f in. long. Corolla f in. long, orange with red stripes. - Capsule 
shorter than the calyx. 
Northern Island : from the Bay of Islands to Wellington, Banks and Solander, etc. 
The foliage somewhat resembles Trophis aspera and Carpodetus serratus. 
