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504 ROSACEAE, [Geum. 
Pass, the Otira Gorge, and the Waimakariri Glacier, 7. F. C.; a common plant in 
subalpine meadows and rocky places in Westland, Cockayne! Otago—Eyre Mountains 
and Routeburn, Poppelwell ; Mackinnon’s Pass, H. J. Matthews and F. G. Gibbs ! Garvie 
Mountains and the Takitimu Mountains, Crosby Smith. 3000-5000 ft. January- 
February. 
A handsome and distinct species, easily recognized by the large white solitary 
flowers. (75 Gus 14%-) 
5. G. divergens Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlvin (1916) 210— 
Short, stout, 2-5 in. high. Rhizome creeping, short, thick and woody, 
clothed with the bases of the old leaves. Leaves all radical, 1-2 in. long 
including the petiole, lyrate-pinnate ; terminal leaflet very large, 3-1 in. 
diam., orbicular reniform, indistinctly lobed, coarsely crenate-dentate ; 
margins densely ciliate with long white hairs; upper surface sparsely 
villous, lower almost glabrous; lateral leaflets 2-4 pairs, minute, lanceolate 
or ovate-lanceolate, ciliate. Scapes 1$—3 in. high, slender, densely pubescent ; 
bracts 2-5, the lowest sometimes #1in. long, lanceolate, incised or rarely 
inciso-pinnatifid. Flowers 1-5, large for the size of the plant, 3-1} in. 
diam., yellow. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, some- 
times with small accessory lobes at the base, pubescent. Petals much 
larger, obovate, obtuse. Achenes villous with long hairs, gradually 
narrowed into a long glabrous style hooked at the tip. 
SoutnH IstanD: Nelson—Sheltered places among rocks on the slopes of Mount 
Captain, Clarence Valley, alt. 5000ft., 7. F. @.; Mount Miromiro, A. Wall (?) (said 
to have white flowers). 
Although this has something of the habit and appearance of G. uniflorum, it is by 
no means closely allied to that plant. The rhizome is shorter and not so stout; the 
leaves are thinner, with a different indumentum; the scapes are furnished with more 
numerous and much larger and more deeply incised bracts; the flowers are more 
numerous, sometimes as many as 5 to a scape, and are brizht-yellow, whereas they are 
solitary and always white in G. wniflorum. I have not seen specimens of Professor ., , 
Wall's plant from Miromiro, but, as it is said to have white flowers, it may belong torre ' (a AY 
another species. 
6. G. leiospermum Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvi (1894) 267.— 
Small, slender, 3-6 in. high, silky or villous in all its parts. Radical leaves 
rosulate, spreading, 1-2in. long, pinnate; terminal leaflet 4-3 in. diam., 
broadly ovate or rounded, sometimes obscurely lobed, closely and unequally 
sharply toothed; lateral leaflets 6-8 pairs, gradually diminishing towards 
the base of the petiole, sharply toothed or incised ; cauline leaves or bracts 
few, deeply incised. Flowering stems few or several, erect or spreading, 
strict, terete, clothed with a short fine pubescence intermixed with long 
silky hairs, branched above, forming a few-flowered cymose panicle. 
Fiowers small, white, ¢-31n. diam.; pedicels elongating in fruit. Calyx- 
tube turbinate ; lobes ovate-deltoid, acute. Petals small, rounded. Fruit- 
ing-receptacle silky. Achenes numerous, spreading, ;4 in. long, perfectly 
glabrous, oblong-ovoid, somewhat turgid, narrowed into a short hooked 
or spirally recurved style—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 130; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 128. 
Norra Istanp: Reporoa Bog, Ruahine Mountains, B. C. Aston. Sovru 
IstAND: Nelson—Mount Arthur Plateau, 7. F. C.; Mount Murchison, W. J'ownson / 
Canterbury—Broken River, J. D. Hnys and T. F. C. . Otago—Upper W aipori, Mount 
Cardrona, The Cambrians, Petrie! Ben Lomond, near Queenstown, B. O. Aston! 
Garvie Mountains, Crosby Smith; Haast Pass and Makaroro, Poppelwell. Srewanrt 
Istanp: Not common, Thomson! Cockayne. 1000-4000 ft., but descends almost 
to sea-level in Stewart Island. December—February. 
Readily distinguished from all the preceding species by the smooth and glabrous 
achenes narrowed into a very short recurved style. 
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