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468° CRUCIFERAE. [Cardamine. 
Soutu Istanp: Nelson——Raglan Mountains, alt. 5000 ft., and mountains above 
the Wairau Gorge, 6000 ft., 7. F. C.; Lake Tennyson, R. M. Laing. Canterbury— 
Mount Catherine, Cockayne ; Mount Arrowsmith, R. M. Laing and Cockayne ; Mount 
Dobson, 5000 ft., 7. F. C. Otago—Lake Hauroko, Ovosby Smith. THE SNARES, 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL ISLANDS: Both varieties not uncommon, Hooker, T. Kirk! 
and others. 
Schulz, in his monograph of the genus, has restored var. stellata to the rank of 
a species. But the differences separating it are very slight. 
5. C. bilobata 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 27.— Rootstock stout, 
eften long and branched at the top. Leaves all radical, on slender 
petioles 1-4in. long; blade 3-13 in. long; quite smooth and glabrous, 
oblong or obovate, in small specimens sometimes entire, but usually 
pinnatifid with a very large terminal lobe and 1 or 2 pairs of small 
spreading lobes at its base. Flowerimg stems 1-3, few-flowered, naked ; 
pedicels slender, $-lim. long or more. Flowers large, sometimes nearly 
lin. diam. Pods 3-lin. long, narrow-linear. snreadime + tt % : 
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Annual or more rarely perennial erect herbe> either glabrous or more 
or less tomentose or hairy. Flowers small, white or yellow, usually in 
rather lax racemes. Sepals short or long, equal or the lateral saccate. 
Petals with long claws. Style short; stigma 2-lobed. Pod long, slender, 
terete or slightly compressed; valves convex; septum membranous. 
Seeds usually numerous, not margined, in a single row in each cell; 
cotyledons incumbent. : 
A genus of about 60 species, widely spread in Europe and from thence to eastern 
Asia, and with a few representatives in most temperate countries. The single New 
Zealand species is endemic. 
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1. S. novae-zelandiae (Hook f.\Handb. N.LY Fil. (1864) ST tan erect 
slender sparingly branched herb 6-18in. high, usually hoary with minute 
stellate pubescence, rarely almost glabrous. Leaves chiefly radical, very 
variable in size and shape, 4-2in. long; petiole long or short; blade 
1lin., obovate to narrow-oblong, quite entire or sinuate-toothed or 
pinnatifid; lobes usually blunt. Cauline leaves few, smaller, Flowers 
small, white. Fruiting-racemes rather lax; pedicels slender, }-3in. long. 
Pods 1-2in. long, go-; in. broad, narrow-linear, obtuse, spreading, gla- 
brous ; valves slightly convex, midrib distinct; style very short. Seeds 
numerous, small; cotyledons incumbent.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
30; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 36. . 
Sourn Istanp: Nelson—Wairau Gorge, W. 7. L. Travers, D | 
bury — Broken River, Coleridge Pass, Porter’s Pass, 7. Kirk/ J _D. Dae? wea 
eee and ree arpa wees ere OF 5g ohm uncommon in the eastern and central 
portions o e district, Petrie / Ititudinal range f : 
December—January. ge irom sea-level to 3000 it. 
