Geum. | ROSACEAE. 503 
small, deeply toothed. Panicles lax, few-flowered ; pedicels long, slender. 
Flowers 3 in. diam., white. Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, obtuse or subacute. 
Petals broad, obtuse, longer than the calyx. Achenes very numerous, 
spreading, stipitate, clavate, villous ; style slender, straight, villous below, 
glabrous and hooked at the tip, much longer than the achene.—Hook. f. 
Fl. Antarct. ii (1847) 263; Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 56; Handb. N.Z. Fi. 
(1864) 55; TL. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 129; Oheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. 
(1906) 127. 
NoRTH AND SourH Istanps: In hilly and mountain districts, from Mount Hiku- 
rangi and the Ruahine Range southwards. 1500-5000 ft. December—February. 
Also in South America, from a to Fuegia. 
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3. G. albiflorum fCheesem. in Subantarct. Is. N.Z. ii (1909) 403, — 
Pubescent, silky or villous in all its parts. Leaves all radical, 3-1 in. 
long including the petiole ; terminal segment orbicular-cordate or reniform, 
minutely lobed or crenate-toothed, pubescent and rugose beneath, silky 
above ; lateral leaflets minute or wanting. Scape strict, downy, 2—4 in. 
high, with 1-3 toothed bracts. Flowers few, small, white, racemose or 
solitary and terminal. Calyx-tube open, silky; segments narrow, ovate, 
subacute ; bractlets short, ovate. Petals slightly exceeding the calyx, 
retuse. Receptacle glabrous. Achenes stipitate, obliquely ovate, villous, 
compressed ; style much shorter than the achene, hooked at the tip. 
Heads not spreading.—Sieversia albiflora Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 9, 
t. 7. Geum parviflorum Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 55 (in part). 
G. aucklandicum Greene in Pittonia, iv (1895) 225. G. sericeum JT. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 128; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 128. 
AUCKLAND Istanps: Rocky places on the hills, Hooker ; highest part of Adams 
Island, 1000-2000 ft., 7. Kirk, B. C. Aston! J. S. Tennant ! 
I have only seen very fragmentary specimens of this interesting plant, ‘and have 
consequently availed myself of Kirk’s description in the “ Students’ Flora.” The 
foliage looks very different to that of G. parviflorum, partly owing to the upper surface 
being much more densely villous with long soft hairs, and to the very prominent veins 
of the under-surface, which give it a strongly rugose appearance. 
it is not at all clear why both Greene and Kirk, in recognizing that the species 
was distinct from G. parviflorum, should have passed over Hooker’s original name of 
albiflorum. 
4. G. uniflorum Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. ii (1870) 88.—Rootstock 
creeping, stout and woody, clothed with the reddish bases of the old leaves 
and stipules. Leaves all radical, 1-3in. long; terminal leaflet large, 
4-1 in. diam., oblong- or rounded-reniform, obscurely lobed, deeply crenate- 
toothed ; margins densely ciliated; surfaces with a few sparse long hairs 
or almost glabrous; lateral leaflets 1-2 pairs, minute, deeply toothed and 
ciliated. Scapes 3-6 in. high, slender, pubescent or villous; bracts 1-2, 
small, narrow, entire or toothed. Flower solitary, large, white, 3-14 in. 
diam. Calyx-lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, villous with long hairs. Petals 
large, broadly obovate or almost orbicular. Achenes villous with long hairs, 
gradually narrowed into a very long style hooked at the tip—T. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 129; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 128; Ill. N.Z. 
FI. 1 (1914) t. 38. 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Mount Cobb, F. G. Gibbs! Mount Luna, Upper Wanga- 
peka, A. J. Kingsley! Mount Buckland, W. Townson / Discovery Peaks, Upper 
Waiau Valley, H. H. Travers! Canterbury and Westland—Mountains above Arthur's 
