464 CRUCIFERAE. [ Nasturtium. 
horizontally spreading, 1-14 in. long, }in. broad, style stout. Seeds red- 
brown; testa reticulate.— Cardamine stylosa DO. Syst. Veg. u (1821) 
248; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i (1860) 18; Handd. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 12; 
Benth. Fl. Austral. i (1863) 68; 2. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 27; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 34. OC. divaricata Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 13. 
Arabis gigantea Hook. Ic. Plant. (1840) t. 259. _ | 
KerMapDkEc Istanps: Not uncommon on Macaulay Island, 7. F.C. Norte AnD 
Soure Isntanps: Auckland—Various localities from Kaitaia and Mangonui to Te 
Aroha, but not common, Cunningham, T. Kirk, T. F.C. ; Hast 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 “5 It is a common Australian and Tasmanian plant. 
3. N, tasttgintain eesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xl (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, 
ovadually 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 trom 
the top of the rootstock among the radical leaves, simple or branched, 
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Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 34. Arabis fastigiata Hook. fort 100; wen a1 -ysveey 
324.  Pachycladon elongata Buch. mn Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix (1887) 216. 
Notothlaspi Hooken Buch. lc. xx (1888) 255, t. 13. 
Sourn 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, Poppelwell ; Garvie Mountains, Crosby Smith. 
Altitudinal range 2500-5000 ft. Avid. AAT OI g FT. 764S44. 
4, N. latesiliqua Cheesem. 2» Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlm (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 
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m Trans. N.Z, Inst. xv (1883) 298; TL. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 28; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 35. 
SourH Isnanp: Nelson—Mount Arthur, on rocky sl : 
r; y slopes, 7. F. C., 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 N. fasti- 
giatum, but easily distinguished by the villous leaves, larger flowers, and much broader 
pods, which have a turgid appearance very unusual in the genus. 
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