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Thi Or wwe ere eevee ye rs LUT EN TLS aL and’. N.Z. Hl. (1864) 
237: Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 590. R. Cunninghamii Mezssn. in 
u DC. Prodr. xiv (1856) 62. BR. Brownianus A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 360 
(not of Camp.); Raoul Chota (1846) 42. 
Kurmapro Isnanps, Norta anp SourH Istanps: Abundant throughout. Sea- 
' level to 4,000 ft. December—March. 
Very closely allied to the Australian R. Brownii, to which it was referred by Allan | 
Cunningham, and from which it differs mainly in the more diffusely branched habit. 
2. R. neglectus 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. ix (1877) 493.—A 
| glabrous perennial herb 2-6 in. high ; rootstock long, stout, often branched 
| above. Leaves rosulate, 1-3in. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, truncate or 
cuneate at the base, margins crenate-undulate ; petiole almost as long as 
the blade. Flowering stem short, stout, depressed, simple or with 1-2 
branches from the base; dense-flowered or rarely elongated with the 
whorls interrupted ; peduncles usually deflexed. Flowers hermaphrodite. 
Fruiting perianth subeampanulate, about $1n. long, thickened at the base ; 
outer segments oblong, obtuse, equalling the tube; inner rather longer, 
| lanceolate, acute, with a tubercle on the midrib and 1 or 2 short teeth on 
each side.—D. Oliver in Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 1245; Cheesem. Man. N LL. 
| Fl. (1906) 591. R. cuneifolius var. alismaefolius Hook f. Fl. Antarct. 1 
(1844) 67. ,A”.aR. Ree, Caowt, Wraema. 1935. >t, 
Norra Isuanp: Pebbly beaches near Wellington, 7. Kirk! B.C. Aston! SoutH 
Istanp: Canterbury—J. B. Armstrong ; Port Molyneux, Catlin’s River, Bluff, Peérie / 
Martin’s Bay, Poppelwell: Dusky Bay, Buchanan ! islands in Foveaux Strait, Cockayne. 
Srpwart IsLAND: Not uncommon on pebbly and sandy beaches, Cockayne. AUCK- 
LAND IstanD: Hook. f., I. Kirk! Cockayne! J. S. Tennant ! November—March. 
3 MUEHLENBECKIA Meissn. \G4O-. “Wom. Com 
Large or small shrubs or undershrubs, often climbing, sometimes 
. prostrate or diffusely spreading. Leaves alternate, petiolate, large or 
. small, sometimes wanting; stipules short, loosely sheathing. Flowers 
| polygamous or dioecious, small, whitish, fascicled within small sheathing 
| bracts ; fascicles axillary or arranged in axillary or terminal spikes, racemes, 
or panicles. Perianth deeply 5-partite ; segments equal or the outer ones 
rather larger, often becoming white and succulent in fruit. Stamens 8, 
| rarely fewer, affixed to the base of the perianth ; filaments filiform ; anthers 
we ovate, in the female flowers reduced to short and thick staminodia or 
i altogether wanting. Ovary 3-gonous; in the male flowers small and rudi- 
i mentary; styles 3, short; stigmas usually fimbriate. Nut obtusely or 
| acutely 3-gonous, enclosed in the usually more or less succulent perianth. 
) WM cobvide Matt, Hees Arner. Vcats ro, 
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