736 GENTIANACEAE.  [Gentiana. 
Var. imbricata 7’. Kirk Ic. 340.— Rigid, erect, 1-3 in. high. Leaves smaller, 
closely imbricating, ovate or ovate-spathulate, not verrucose, coriaceous, margins 
thickened. Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves; corolla longer than the — 
calyx. 
CAMPBELL IsLAND: Hooker, T'. Kirk / 
Apparently a very distinct species. Mr. Kirk remarks that it is easily recognized 
by the. pale-greenish colour, the minutely verrucose surface of all its parts, and the 
slender excessively branched inflorescence, the flowers being almost hidden amongst 
the crowded leaves and bracts. It is sometimes reduced to a broad rosette of leaves 
with a short spike-like cluster of densely crowded flowers. 
24. G. antipoda 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii (1895) 340.— 
Perennial; whole plant very minutely verrucose. Stems numerous, stout, 
decumbent below, erect above, 3-10in. high. Leaves #-Ifin. long, 
linear-spathulate or lingulate, obtuse, narrowed into a rather long flat 
petiole ; lower crowded, often spreading or recurved; upper more re- 
mote, smaller and with shorter petioles, ascending or erect. Flowers 
small, {-$1n. long, white or white streaked with red, usually numerous 
on stender erect axillary branchlets, each flower in the axil of a linear bract, 
but sometimes the flowers are solitary in the axils of the cauline leaves. 
Calyx slightly shorter than the corolla, divided almost to the base; lobes 
linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla very thin, divided about 2-way down; 
lobes linear-oblong.—Oheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 456. 
ANTIPODES Istanp : Abundant, 7. Kirk. 
Perhaps too close to the preceding, from which it mainly differs in the more numerous 
stems and narrower lingulate leaves. Mr. Kirk distinguished two forms, one with 
yellowish stems and white flowers, the other with reddish stems and flowers streaked 
with red. 
It should be remarked that both this species and G. antarctica occasionally produce 
much smaller flowers which have smaller almost sessile anthers and ovaries with fewer 
ovules. Probably these flowers are cleistogamic, but my specimens are not sufficiently 
good to determine this. 
3. LIPAROPHYLLUM Hook. f. |? 4%?) 
A small creeping herb, Leaves linear, tufted, entire. Peduncles solitary, 
terminal, 1-flowered. Flowers small, white. Calyx deeply 5-partite ; 
segments linear. Corolla subrotate, deeply 5-lobed ; lobes with broad thin 
margins, induplicate-valvate. Stamens 5; filaments short, broad ; anthers 
oblong. Ovary l-celled, with 2 parietal placentas ; style very short ; stigma 
broadly 2-lamellate. Fruit globose, fleshy or succulent, indehiscent. Seeds 
numerous ; testa crustaceous. , 
A monotypic genus, confined to New Zealand and Tasmania. 
1. L. Gunnii Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi (1847) 472. — Small, 
perfectly glabrous. Rhizome 3~-9in. long, stout, creeping, branched, 
emitting long thick rootlets. Leaves tufted, 3-lin. long, narrow-linear 
or linear-spathulate, obtuse, thick and fleshy, with a broad membranous 
sheathing base, quite entire. Peduncles stout, much shorter than the leaves. 
Flowers small, }in. diam. Calyx almost equalling the corolla; segments 
linear, fleshy, acute. Corolla divided 3-way down; lobes ovate, 3-nerved, 
margins undulate. Stamens inserted just below the sinus of the lobes. 
Ovary broadly ovoid or almost globose ; ovules numerous. Fruit globose, 
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