734 GENTIANACEAR. _ [Gentiana, 
and with shorter petioles. Flowers 4—4in. long, white or white streaked 
with purple veins, in dense 5-12-flowered umbels, each stem usually with 
a terminal umbel and 2 lateral] ones springing from a pair of leaves 
half-way down; umbels surrounded by a whorl of 5-7 oblong-spathulate 
leaves overtopping the flowers and forming a kind of involucre ; pedicels 
short. Calyx cut down almost to the base; lobes linear, acute. Corolla 
hardly longer than the calyx, divided about 3-way down ; lobes linear- 
oblong, obtuse.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 453; Ill. N.Z. Fl. ti (1914) 
t. 141. 
Sout Istanp: Nelson—Cobb Valley (near Mount Peel), F. G. Gibbs! coastal 
mountains from the Karamea River through Mount Frederic, Mount Rochfort, Mount 
Buckland, &c., to the Paparoa Mountains, not uncommon, W. Townson / Spencer / 
Petrie! P. G. Morgan! South-west Otago—Mackinnon’s Pass, F. G. Gibbs / 1500- 
3500 ft. January—March. 
G. Spenceri is a well-marked and perfectly distinct plant, not at all closely allied 
to the other New Zealand species. It can always be distinguished by the erect 
slender habit, numerous rosulate obovate-spathulate radical leaves, few cauline leaves, 
and particularly by the involucrate umbels and small flowers, the corolla of which is 
not much Jonger than the calyx. The flowers are sometimes white, but more often, 
according to Mr. Townson, white streaked with numerous purple veins. 
20. G. saxosa Forst. f. in Act. Holm. (1777) 183, t. 5.— Perennial. 
Stems stout, usually much branched, prostrate or decumbent below, ascend- 
ing or suberect at the tips, 3-6in. long. Radical leaves numerous, crowded, 
spreading, ?-l#in. long, spathulate or linear-spathulate, obtuse, narrowed 
into slender petioles as long or longer than the blade, fleshy, nerveless ; 
cauline similar but smaller and on shorter petioles, close together or distant. 
Flowers terminal, solitary or in 2-5-flowered cymes at the tips of the branches, 
large, white, $-?in. long. Calyx small, broad, about 4 as long as the 
corolla, divided nearly ?-way down ; lobes linear or linear-ligulate, obtuse 
or subacute, recurved at the tips. Corolla often nearly 2 in. diam., broadly 
campanulate or subrotate, divided rather more than half-way down ; lobes 
oblong, obtuse —Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) 132; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 
(1832) 202; A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 398 ; Raoul Choix (1846) 44; Hook. 
f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 178; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 190 (in part); 7. Kirk 
m Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii (1895) 348; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. (1906) 
454. G. saxosa var. recurvata T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii (1885) 
224. G, Hookeri J. B. Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii (1881) 340 (in 
part) (not of Grisebach). 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Coast near Charleston, W. Townson ! Westland—Near 
Hokitika, Helms / Otago—Dusky Sound, on rocks washed by the sea, Forster, Menzies ; 
Bluft Hill, F. W. Hutton! T. Kirk ! Cockayne! Colac Bay and Fortrose, B. C. Aston / 
Catlin’s River, Petrie / islands in Foveaux Strait, 7. Kirk! Poppelwell, STEWART 
IsLtanD: Various stations along the coast, Petrie! 7. Kirk! Cockayne, and others. 
Sea-level to 800 ft. January—April. 
Purely littoral, and confined to rocky shores or sandhills exposed to salt spray. 
Its distinguishing characters lie in the usually prostrate or decumbent habit, rather 
fleshy long-petioled leaves, short and broad deeply divided calyx, with the lobes 
recurved at the tips. In the Handbook it is merged with G. bellidifolia and other moun- 
tain species, with which it does not seem to have any very close affinity, its nearest 
ally, as Mr. Kirk has pointed out, being undoubtedly G. cerina. s 
21. G. eerina Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 54, t. 36. — Perennial. 
Stems usually humerous, much branched, stout, prostrate or decumbent 
at the base, ascending or suberect at the tips, leafy throughout or naked 
