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R. Traversii. — F. Mueller considers this identical with R. Lyalin , but 
though I have received numerous specimens of the latter I find none of 
them with the characters of this. 
5. After R. pinguis add — 
No. 4 bis. R. Godleyanus, Hook. /., n. sp. Erect, very stout, a foot 
high, everywhere quite glabrous except the receptacle of the fruit. Stem 
1 in. diameter at the base. Leaves all radical, with broad thick petioles 2-5 
in. long and 1 in. broad ; blade 6-7 in. long, broadly oblong, rounded at the 
apex, narrowed into the petiole, coarsely crenate or doubly crenate, thickly 
fleshy or coriaceous, with radiating reticulated nerves. Scapes stout, ascend- 
ing, as long or longer than the leaves, bearing at the middle 2 or more sessile 
oblong bracts, and several branching or simple flowering peduncles that are 
2-bracteolate at the axils. Flowers numerous, corymbose, 1 — 1-J- in. across. 
Sepals broadly obovate-oblong, spreading. Petals 5, broadly obcuneate-obo- 
vate, 2-lobed at the apex, with 3 naked glands at the base, deep yellow. 
Achenes very numerous, forming a broad-oblong head, spreading, the lower 
recurved, subulate, narrowed into the slender curved styles, nearly glabrous ; 
receptacle pilose. 
Middle Island : Whitcombe’s Pass, on the edge of a lagoon, alt. 4200 ft., Haast, 
March, 1866. — A noble plant, and worthy of the distinguished colonist whose name it 
bears. It approaches R. pinguis , and may prove a form of that very variable plant, but so 
far as Haast’s excellent specimens go, it is abundantly distinct in its glabrousness, broad 
oblong leaves, cuneate at the base, not at all lobed, and smaller more slender achenes. 
5. The following species was omitted in the Handbook : — 
No. 4 ter. R. Aucklandicus, A. Gray, Bot. U. S. Ex pi. Exped. i. 8. 
Silky-strigose ; rhizome short, thick; stem solitary, erect, 6-10 in. high, 2- 
leaved, 1-flowered. Leaves long-petioled, petiole strigose-hirsute, orbicular 
or reniform, 3-fid to or beyond the middle with closed sinus, both surfaces 
equally silky-strigose, 1—1^ in. diameter, thick, but not fleshy ; lobes cunei- 
form, 2-3-lobed, again toothed or incised. Flower not seen. Receptacle of 
achenes cylindric, i in. long, papillose, minutely hairy ; achenes ovate com- 
pressed, not margined, smooth and glabrous with a short straight subulate 
style. 
ZiOrd Auckland’s group, Wilkes's Expedition. — Near R. pinguis and possibly a form 
of it, if I am correct in considering R. Munroi a variety of that species. 
5. R. geraniifolius. — Southern Alps, alt. 2500 ft., Haast. 
5. R. Buchanani.— Erase the Macaulay river and Waimakeriri habitats, 
which belong to the following species : — 
5. No. 7 bis. R. cRordorhizos, Hook. /., n. sp. Everywhere glabrous, 
short, stout. Rhizome as thick as the finger, 2-4 in. long, almost woody, 
with numerous perpendicular root-fibres 6-10 in. long and as thick as whip- 
cord. Leaves with stout petioles, 1—1^ in. long ; blade coriaceous and 
fleshy, suborbicular, 3-partite to the base ; segments broadly obovate-spa- 
thulate, almost petiolulate, 3-lobed ; lobes crenate ; upper surface pitted when 
dry. Peduncles few, thick, 1-flowered, from a scape that is much shorter 
than the petioles. Flowers not seen. Head of achenes globose. Receptacle 
