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^ Order XLVIII. LOGANIACEiE. 
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188. Before Logania, insert — 
1. MITRASACME. — Small annual, rarely perennial, herbaceous 
plants. Leaves opposite, often connate, quite entire, exstipulate. Flowers 
minute, axillary and uinbelled, or solitary and terminal. Calyx 2-4-lohed or 
partite. Corolla 4-lobed or partite ; lobes valvate. Stamens 4, filaments 
short or slender. Ovary 2 -celled ; styles 2, distinct, or connate by the 
capitate stigmas ; ovules several or numerous, attached to axile placentae. 
Capsule turgid, 2-celled, dehiscing loculicidally between the styles at the 
summit. Seeds numerous, roug’nish ; albumen fleshy. 
A considerable genus of small plants, natives chiefly of Australia. A few are Indian. 
1. M. novee-Zelandiee, Hook, f, n. sp. A small moss-like glabrous 
densely-tufted perennial. Stems and branches very short, filiform, inter- 
woven. Leaves yV _ To in. long, densely imbricate, linear-oblong, acuminate, 
with a bristle at the apex, connate by their broad bases, quite glabrous, 
coriaceous, rather concave, nerveless. Flowers terminal, sessile, hidden by 
the uppermost leaves. Sepals like the leaves. Corolla shortly and broadly 
tubular; lobes 4, short, obtuse. Stamens with short filaments and broad 
didymous anthers. Stigmas free. 
Middle Island : Dusky Bay, Hector and Buchanan , on the hills, alt. 3500 ft,. Allied 
to the Tasmanian M. montana. 
189. Logania tetragona. — Sounds of the west coast of Otago, Hector and 
Buchanan. — Stipules 0. Flowers solitary, terminal. Calyx-tube and lobes 
below pubescent, glandular, and almost hispid. Corolla funnel-shaped, i 
in. diameter; tube short; lobes 5, very large and spreading. Throat quite 
glabrous. Stamens 5 ; filaments short, inserted within the tube ; anthers 
short, 2-cleft halfway up. Capsule enclosed in, and half as long as the 
calyx-lobes ; valves obovate, retuse. 
189. 3. L. ciliolata, Hook. f. n. sp. Stems prostrate, much branched; 
branches ascending, 1-3 in. high, glabrous, densely covered with elosely- 
imbricate leaves, hence tetragonous and i in. diameter. Leaves densely 
packed, spreading, linear or linear-oblong, obtuse, very coriaceous, connate 
in pairs, ciliate along all the margins, nerveless, convex at the back. Flowers 
solitary in the axils of uppermost leaves, in. diameter. Calyx deeeply 
4-cleft ; lobes glabrous, ciliated on the margins. Corolla with a short fun- 
nel-shaped tube; lobes 4, orbicular, spreading; mouth glabrous. Stamens 
4 ; filaments short, inserted within the mouth of the corolla ; anthers ob- 
long-sagittate. Ovary narrow, seated in a cup-shaped disk; style slender, 
stigma minute. Capsule not seen. 
Middle Island : slopes above Browning’s Pass, alt. 4-6000 ft., Haast. — So similar in 
most characters to L. tetragona that it is difficult to suppose that intermediates may not 
occur, but the leaves are longer, ciliate to the apex ; the branchlets and calyx glabrous* ; the 
flowers very much smaller aud 4-merous, and the anthers shorter. 
Order XLIX. GENTIA3STE7E. 
190. Gentiana pleurogynoides.— Chatham Island, W. Travers. 
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