Notothlaspi. | CRUCIFERAE. 4AT5 
1, N. rosulatum Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 15.—A very remark- 
able stout erect leafy pyramidal fleshy herb 3-9 in. high, stem very short 
or almost wanting. Leaves all radical, very numerous, most densely 
crowded, fleshy, imbricated, forming a rosette or cushion, spathulate, crenate 
or dentate, when young clothed with white cellular ribband-lke hairs, 
glabrous or nearly so when old, narrowed into a petiole of variable length. 
Scape very stout, sometimes as thick as the finger, covered with densely 
crowded sweet-scented flowers, forming a conical or pyramidal raceme. 
Pods 4-lin. long, obovate, very broadly winged, notched at the top; 
style very short; stigma 2-lobed. Seeds numerous, subreniform, pitted ; 
radicle very long, twice folded, first upwards then downwards and back- 
wards over the back of the cotyledons.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 38; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 42. N. notabile Buch. in Trans. N.Z. 
Inst, xiv (1882) 344, t. 25. | 
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SoutH Istanp: Nelson and Canterbury ncommon on dry shingle-slopes 
on the mountains, but easily overlooked. Wairau Gorge, Maling, W. T. L. Travers ; 
Gordon’s Knob, Raglan Mountains, Wairau Gorge, Lake Tennyson, Mount Torlesse, 
mountains above the Broken River, 7. F. C. ; Wairau Gorge, Porter’s Pass, Leith Hill, 
T’. Kirk! Mount Franklin, Buchanan! Craigieburn Mountains, Cockayne / Mount 
Arrowsmith, R. M. Laing and Cockayne; Waimakariri Valley, Haast/ Otago— 
Mount Ida, P. Goyen ! Altitudinal range 2500-6000 ft. December—February. 
One of the most singular plants in the Dominion. When in flower or fruit it has 
a conical or pyramidal shape; but flowerless specimens form rosettes or cushions of 
closely packed imbricating leaves, from which, no doubt, has arisen the local name of 
““ penwiper plant.’ The flowers are deliciously fragrant. 
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2. N. australe Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 15.—-Small, densely 
tufted, usually much branched from the base ; branches leafy, spreading, 
I-4in. long. Leaves radical and cauline, numerous, 4-1} in. long, petiolate, 
linear- or oblong-spathulate, entire or crenate, glabrous or with a few cellular 
hairs, often recurved. Flowers very numerous, corymbose, about + in. 
diam. Pod much smaller than in the preceding species, $+in. long, 
broadly oblong or elliptic, winged, barely notched at the top; style long, 
almost 3 the length of the pod. Seeds numerous, pitted; radicle long, 
slender.—T7’. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 38; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
43; Ill. N.Z. Fl.i (1914) t. 12. Thlaspi (?) australe Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 
li (1855) 325. 
Var. stellatum 7. Kirk l.c. 39.—Stems not branched. Leaves narrow linear- 
spathulate ; petioles pubescent. Flowers numerous, on long 1-flowered peduncles. 
SoutH [stanp: Nelson—An abundant plant on the mountains, from 2500 to 
000 tt. Var. stellatum : Mount Rintoul, F. G. Gibbs, W. H. Bryant7T."7 I U9 +i) SG. 
A pretty little plant, originally discovered by Sir David Monro. Although very 
ommon in the Nelson and Marlborough Districts, it has not been observed further 
south than Lake Tennyson. 
Family XLV. DROSERACEAE. 
Herbs, rarely undershrubs, Leaves alternate, often rosulate, stipulate, 
usually furnished with glandular irritable hairs ; vernation circinate. Flowers 
regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 4—5-partite or divided into 4-5 free sepals, 
imbricate, persistent. Petals the same number, hypogynous, rarely perlgy- 
nous, free or sometimes connate at the base. Stamens 4-5, rarely more, 
hypogynous or perigynous, rarely epipetalous. Ovary free or nearly so, 
\-3-celled ; styles 1-5, simple or bifid or multifid ; ovules numerous, attached 
