Myposotis. | BORAGINACEAE, 75] 
long, pedicels short. Calyx densely hispid with stiff white hairs, 4-lobed 
to the middle; lobes linear, acute. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx, 
throat with 5 scales; limb broad, with 5 rounded lobes. Stamens with 
very short filaments; anthers very long, linear, their tips projecting con- 
siderably above the level of the corolla-scales. Style long, slender. Nutlets 
oblong, smooth and polished, black—LHxarrhena ColensoiT. Kirk in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xxvu (1895) 351 (an part). 
SoutH Istanp: Canterbury—Limestone rocks in the Broken River basin, J. D. 
Enys! T. Kirk! Cockayne! T. F.C. 2000-3500 ft. December—January. 
A curious little plant, remarkable for the large linear anthers, the tips of which 
stand up considerably above the corolla-scales. 
8. M. ecapitata Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1 (1844) 56, t. 37.— Perennial ; 
clothed in all its parts with soft spreading scarcely hispid hairs ; rootstock 
long; stems one or several from the root, stout, ascending, simple, leafy. 
Radical leaves numerous, spreading, 14—4 in. long, linear-obovate or linear- 
oblong or spathulate, obtuse, narrowed into a short broad petiole, clothed 
with soft spreading or appressed hairs above, much less hairy beneath ; 
cauline smaller, the upper ones sessile. Racemes short, stout, simple or 
branched, usually forming a dense many-flowered head. Flowers + in. long, 
4-1in. diam., shortly pedicelled, blue. Calyx hispid with appressed straight 
hairs, 5-lobed #-way down; lobes linear, obtuse. Corolla-tube 4 longer 
than the calyx, cylindrical, throat with 5 scales ; limb flat, spreading, with 
5 rounded lobes. Stamens included; filaments very short; anther-tips 
just below the level of the scales. Style long, slender. Nutlets ovoid, 
smooth and shining, black.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 194; Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 463; Subantarct. Is. N.Z. (1909) 423. 
AUCKLAND ISLANDS: Open hillsides and rocky places, Hooker, T. Kirk ! Chapman ! 
Cockayne! B. CO, Aston! Campsetyt Istanp: Filhol/ T. Kirk, R. M. Laing. — Sea- 
level to 1200 ft. December—February. 
A handsome plant, very well figured and described by Hooker in the “ Flora 
Antarctica.’’ Its nearest ally is the white-flowered M. albida. 
9. M. albida Cheesem. in Subantarct. Is. N.Z. (1909) 423. — Perennial. 
Rhizome long, stout, horizontal or oblique, emitting thick fibrous rootlets, 
clothed at the top with the remains of withered leaves. Stems or flowering 
branches numerous, stout, ascending, usually decumbent at the base. 
8-18 in. high, everywhere densely clothed with short soft spreading hairs. 
Radical leaves numerous, 3-6in. long, 4—lin. broad, thick, flat, linear- 
obovate or linear-spathulate to linear-oblong, obtuse, gradually narrowed 
into a broad flat petiole, densely clothed on both surfaces with short white 
hairs. Cauline leaves few, smaller and narrower. Racemes terminal or 
in the axils of the upper leaves, pedunculate, simple or forked, scorpioid. 
capitate. Flowers very numerous, crowded, shortly pedicelled. Calyx 
tin. long, thickly set with whitish hairs; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse. 
Corolla hypocrateriform, white; tube long, narrow-cylindric, } as long 
again as the calyx, throat with 5 scales; limb jin. diam., flat; lobes 
rounded. Stamens 5; filaments equal in length to the anthers; anthers 
standing altogether above the level of the corolla-scales. Nutlets ovoid, 
acute, shining, black. 
