Myosotis, | BORAGINACEAE, 759 
26. M. eximia Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlviii (1916) 188.—Perennial ; 
everywhere sparingly clothed with closely appressed stiff white hairs. 
Rhizome branched, often prostrate and rooting and forming extensive 
patches of considerable size. Flowering stems numerous, slender, simple 
or branched, erect or decumbent at the base, leafy below, naked above. 
Radical leaves many, narrow oblong-spathulate or oblanceolate, 14—2¥4 in. 
long, acute or subacute, gradually narrowed into a flattened petiole, 
appressed-pilose on both surfaces, but somewhat less so beneath, midrib 
shightly evident. Cauline leaves shorter and narrower and more acute, 
the upper sessile. Racemes long pedunculate, simple or rarely forked. 
Flowers 5-12, large, white with a yellow eye, 3—?in. diam., shortly 
pedicelled. Calyx cut down for nearly 3? into narrow linear-subulate lobes. 
Corolla large, campanulate or broadly funnel-shaped ; tube broad, equalling 
or exceeding the calyx; limb large, with 5 rounded lobes. Stamens 
attached above the level of the corolla-scales; filaments twice the length 
of the anthers, which reach more than half-way up the corolla-lobes. Ripe 
fruit not seen. 
NortH [stAnd: Ruahine Mountains, limestone bluffs and talus slopes on Mount 
Aorangi, Mangohane, B. OC. Aston / Altitude 3900 ft. December—January. 
Very closely allied to my M. amabilis, from which it only differs in its more slender 
habit, narrower and thinner and more acute leaves,.and slightly larger flowers. The 
structure of the flowers is very similar in both plants. 
27. M. saxosa Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 202.—Perennial; small, 
stout, leafy, very densely hispid with rather long soft white hairs. 
Flowering stems decumbent at the base, ascending above, 2-3 in, high.. 
Leaves $-#in. long, linear-spathulate, subacute or apiculate, on broad 
petioles. Racemes pedunculate, few-flowered ; flowers crowded, shortly 
pedicellate. Calyx nearly fin. long, deeply 5-partite ; lobes linear. Corolla 
funnel-shaped ; throat with 5 scales. Anthers slightly exserted—Exarrhena 
. saxosa Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 196 (so far as the North Island 
specimens are concerned). EH. Colensoi 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii 
(1895) 351 (an part). 
NortH Istanp: Hawke’s Bay—Crags at Titiokura, Colenso/ B. C. Aston ! 
The above description is based on that given by Hooker in the Flora. I have 
referred to the same species, for the present, a plant collected in the original locality 
by Mr. B. C. Aston; but as no flowering specimens were obtained, and as the leaves 
do not altcgether correspond with a fragment from the type given to me by Sir J. D. 
Hooker, there is an element of doubt in the identification. It is quite possible that 
Petrie’s M. eximia may be the same. 
28. M. Lyallii Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 202.— “A rather short 
and stout tufted perennial, slightly hispid with appressed hairs. Stems 
several from the root, erect or ascending, rather stout, 2-6in. high. 
Leaves: Radical oblong-spathulate or obovate-lanceolate, subacute, 1—141in. 
long, narrowed into rather slender petioles; cauline narrow linear-oblong 
or oblong-spathulate, all slightly hispidulous on both surfaces with appressed 
hairs. Racemes short, simple or forked. Flowers very shortly pedicelled.. 
Calyx fin. long, hispid with appressed or patent, simple and hooked bristles. 
Corolla §-jin. long; tube cylindric, longer than the calyx; lobes short, 
rounded. Stamens with long slender filaments; anthers linear. Nuts 
broadly ovate or orbicular, very black and shining.”—Cheesem. Man. N.Z.. 
Fil, (1906) 470. Exarrhena Lyallii Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 196. 
