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5. N. Gibbsii Cheesem. n. sp—vVery similar to N. latesiliqua, and like 
it with a stout woody rootstock as thick as the little finger. Radical leaves 
very numerous, but soon withering when the plant. flowers, spreading, 
3-7 in. long, consisting of a narrow-linear blade $-1in. broad or sometimes 
even less, from which towards the tep project 1-3 pairs of spreading or 
erecto-patent teeth ¢ in. long, more or less coriaceous, smooth and glabrous, 
or sometimes furnished with a few long hairs on the margins of the leaves. 
Cauline leaves similar to the radical, the lower ones broader. Flowering 
stems one or several, 6-24 1n. high, branched, glabrous, the branches usually 
spreading. Flowers very numerous, }in. diam., white. Petals spathulate, 
with very long claws. Pods large, 14-3 in, long, strongly curved, turgid. 
Seeds numerous, compressed, reddish-brown, pointed at the tip. 
Sours Istanp: Nelson—Ravines on the face of Mount Lockett, alt. 3500 ft., 
F. G. Gibbs ! 
Although clearly allied to N. latesiliqua, this differs in a marked manner in the 
taller and more slender glabrous habit, and particularly in the more numerous exceed- 
. ingly narrow glabrous leaves, which are almost entire except for a few distant 
projecting teeth towards the top of the leaf. 
6. N. Enysii Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlii (1911) 179.—Short, 
stout, 2-4in. high. Rootstock thick and fleshy, perpendicular, $in. diam., 
bearing at its summit numerous radical leaves, and a short flowering stem 
which is much branched from the base, and forms a rounded or pyramidal 
head 2-Hin. diam. Leaves $-i} in. long, 4-}in. broad, oblong-spathulate, 
obtuse or subacute, narrowed into a broad flat petiole, rather thin, sharply 
serrate, sometimes almost pinnatifid, more or less densely clothed on both 
surfaces with stellate pubescence. Cauline leaves linear or linear-spathulate, 
toothed towards the tip. Flowers numerous, corymbose, white. Pedicels 
slender, spreading, ¢-41n. long. Petals spathulate, with long claws. Pods 
3 
(immature) narrow-linear, flat, about lin. long. Seeds numerous, in 2 
series.—Cardamine itnysi Cheesem. cx T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 28; 
Cheesem. Man, N.Z. Fl. (1906) 35. . 
6m 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Spenser Mountains, Rk. M. Laing. Canterbury — 
Mountains at the head of the Broken River, J. D. Hnys and 7. F. C.; Cragieburn 
Mountains and the Candlestick Mountains, Cockayne / Otago—Mount Ida, Petrie / 
A very remarkable plant, easily separated from the two preceding species by the 
smaller size, depressed habit, and stellate pubescence. My fruiting specimens are too 
immature to admit of the position of the radicle being satisfactorily made out. 
2. CARDAMINE Linn. 1793S 
Annual or perennial often flaccid herbs, glabrous or slightly pubescent. 
Leaves entire or more frequently pinnately divided. Flowers white or 
purplish. Sepals equal at the base. Petals clawed. Stigma simple or 
2-lobed. Pod long, narrow-lnear, compressed ; valves usually flat, opening 
elastically ; septum membranous, transparent. Seeds numerous, flattened, 
in one series; cotyledons accumbent. 
A rather large genus of nearly 100 species, inhabiting the temperate and cool regions 
of both hemispheres. Of the 5 species admitted in this work, 2 or possibly 3 are found in 
Wuegia, the remainder are endemic. 
Slender, usually flaccid, 3-15in. high. Leaves pinnate, 2—6-jugate 
(reduced to a single pinnule in var. uniflora). Flowers small, 
white .. Be * ale sé a o- Il. C. heterophylla, 
