464 CRUCIFERAE. [Nasturtwum. 
horizontally spreading, 1-14 in. long, }in. broad, style stout. Seeds red- 
brown; testa reticulate.—Cardamine stylosa DC. Syst. Veg. u (1821) 
248; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i (1860) 18; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 12; 
Benth. Fl: Austral. i (1863) 68; 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 27; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 34. C. divaricata Hook, f. Jl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 18. 
Arabis gigantea Hook. Ic. Plant. (1840) t. 259. _ | 
KERMADEC IsLANDS: Not uncommon on Macaulay Island, 7, 7. C. Norte AnD 
Sourn Isnanps: Auckland—Various localities from Kaitaia and Mangonui to Te 
Aroha, but not common, Cunningham, T. Kirk, T. F. C.; East Cape and Tolaga Bay, 
Bishop Williams ! Marlborough—Queen Charlotte Sound, Banks and Solander | 
Picton, J. Rutland ; Mount Stokes, J. H. Macmahon ! 
Readily known by its large size and branched leafy habit, long racemes, horizontally 
spreading pods and pitted se “ It is a common Australian and Tasmanian plant. 
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3. N. fastigintamn , heesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlm (1911) 179.— 
Rootstock long, stout, tapering, often as thick as the finger, bearing at the 
top a rosette of densely crowded radical leaves. Leaves 13-3 in. long, 
linear- or lanceolate-spathulate, acute, sharply and deeply inciso-serrate, 
evadually narrowed into a broad flat petiole, thick and coriaceous, glabrous 
or with a few weak hairs on the margins. Cauline leaves similar, but 
smaller and less toothed. Flowering stems usually several springing from 
the top of the rootstock among the radical leaves, simple or branched, 
6-18in. high. Flowers numerous, white, corymbose, about 4in. diam. 
Petals 4in. long, spathulate, on long claws. Pods erect or nearly so, 
straight or curved, acute at both ends, narrow-linear, 1-2 in. long, 3:-3z in. 
broad. Seeds compressed, red-brown.— Cardamine fastigiata Hook. /f. 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 13; ZT. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 28; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 34. Arabis fastigiata Hook. f. Fl. Nov, Zel. ii (1855) 
324. Pachycladon elongata Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix (1887) 216. 
Notothlaspi Hooker Buch. l.c. xx (1888) 255, t. 13. 
Sout Istanp: Nelson—Wairau Gorge, Sinclair / T. F. C.; Mount Percival and 
mountains overlooking the Upper Clarence Valley, 7. F. C., Petrie! Spenser 
Mountains, R. M. Laing. Marlborough—Macrae’s Run, Monro; Upper Awatere, 
T. Kirk! Otago—Eyre Mountains, Poppelweil; Garvie Mountains, Crosby Smith. 
Altitudinal range 2500-5000 ft. A, . AKAN Gt tann 4 +16 eS. 
4. N. latesiliqua Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlin (1911) 179.— 
Rootstock stout, spongy, as thick as the finger, often branched at the top, 
each division furnished with a rosette of densely crowded radical leaves. 
Flowering stems few or many, erect or spreading, branched, leafy at the 
base, 6-24in. high. Radical leaves 3-6in. long, 4—-2in. broad, narrow 
linear-spathulate to obovate-spathulate, gradually narrowed to the base, 
coarsely serrate above, thick and coriaceous, more or less villous, especially 
on the margins. Upper cauline leaves smaller, lanceolate, nearly entire. 
Flowers rather large, white, very numerous. Petals nearly }in. long, 
spathulate, on long claws. Pods erect or suberect, usually curved, some 
what turgid, 13-24 in. long, }-}in. broad. Seeds numerous, compressed, 
reddish-brown.—Ill. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 9. Cardamine latesiliqua Cheesem. 
m Trans. N.Z. Inst. xv (1883) 298; TL. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 28; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 35. 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Mount Arthur, on rocky slopes, 7. F. ©., Bryant! 
F. G. Gibbs / Mount Owen, 7. F. C., W. Townson / Raglan Mountains, 7. F. C. 
Altitudinal range 3000-5500 ft. December—January. | 
A handsome plant, with much of the habit and general appearance of JN. fasti- 
guatum, but easily distinguished by the villous leaves, larger flowers, and much broader 
pods, which have a turgid appearance very unusual in the genus. 
