— Slr t—“‘élllll _—— = 
758 BORAGINACEAR. | Myosotis. 
filaments; anthers reaching almost to the top of the corolla-lobes. Style 
exserted. Nutlets ovoid, pale-brown—Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 468. 
NortH Istanp: Hawke’s Bay, Tryon! Sourn Istanp: Nelson — Mountains 
flanking the Wairau Valley, 7. F. C.; Lake Tennyson, &. M. Laing. Canterbury—- 
Ashburton Mountains, Poits / 1500-4000 ft. December—February. 
In the shape of the corolla this much resembles W/. Goyens ; but the anthers are 
on long slender filaments, and are exserted far beyond the corolla-tube, almost 
reaching the top of the lobes. 
24. M. Laingii Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xliv (1912) 161.— 
Perennial; everywhere clothed with copious soft white hairs. Flowering 
stems several from the root, slender, decumbent below, erect above, 
12-18 in. high. Radical leaves numerous, 3-6in. long; blade about $ 
the length, linear- or lanceolate-spathulate, obtuse or subacute, gradually 
narrowed into the very long and slender petiole, membranous, both sur- 
faces clothed with soft white hairs, midrib distinct. Cauline leaves much 
smaller, the lower shortly petioled, the upper sessile. Racemes many- 
flowered, usually simple, rarely forked. Flowers large, crowded, $—2 in. 
long, yellow, shortly pedicelled. Calyx long and narrow, 5-partite; lobes 
linear, acute. Corolla narrow-campanulate; tube about 4 the length; 
throat with 5 emarginate scales; limb large, deeply lobed, the lobes oblong, 
obtuse. Stamens with slender elongated filaments, which are inserted just 
below the scales; anthers large, narrow-linear, reaching half-way up the 
corolla-lobes. Ripe nutlets not seen. 
SourH Istanp: Marlborough —- Kaikoura Mountains, buchanan! Nelson— 
Wairau Gorge 7'. F. C.; Lake Tennyson, &. M. Laing ! Altitudinal range from 
2500 to 4500 ft. 
Evidently closely allied to my MM. laeta, but differing in the much taller stems 
and much larger flowers. 
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25. M. amabilis Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 408.— Perennial ; 
everywhere densely clothed with soft white hairs; rootstock stout; flowering 
stems usually several, rather stout, decumbent at the base, erect above, 
leafy, 3-9 in. high. Radical leaves numerous, 1-23 in. long, linear-obovate 
or obovate-spathulate, obtuse, narrowed into rather long broad _ petioles, 
coriaceous, equally hoary on both surfaces with short soft white hairs ; 
cauline smaller, sessile, oblong-lanceolate or linear-oblong, acute. Racemes 
pedunculate, simple or forked, at first short and capitate, but lengthening 
as the flowering advances, many-flowered. Flowers large, white, $—% in. 
long, $in. diam., very shortly pedicelled. Calyx 4in. long, densely hispid 
with soft white hairs, lobed about 2-way down; lobes lanceolate, acute. 
Corolla large, campanulate or broadly funnel-shaped; tube exceeding 
the calyx, with 5 rather narrow scales at the mouth; limb large, 
with 5 rounded veined lobes. Stamens attached above the level of the 
scales ; filaments nearly twice the length of the anthers, which reach more 
than half-way up the corolla-lobes. Ripe fruit not seen. 
_Norrn Istanp: Auckland—Summit of Mount Hikurangi, East Cape district, 
altitude 5000 ft., Petrie and Adams / January. : 
Kvidently a very handsome plant. In habit and foliage it much resembles my 
M. explanata, but is smaller and stouter, with more copious hairs, and the flowers are 
altogether different in structure. Mr. Brown, who has compared specimens with the 
types at Kew, remarks that ‘it differs from the type of M. saxosa in its larger habit, 
larger leaves (which are nearly 2 diameters larger than those of M. saxosa and have a 
different under-surface), and the calyx is also narrower and less erect. It is more like 
M. Lyalli, but the flowers are more numerous and denser, and the leaves are hairy all 
over beneath, whilst in WM. Lyallii it is only on the midrib that they are hairy beneath.” 
