760 BORAGINACEAE, | M yosotis, 
Sourn IstanD: Otago—Milford Sound, Lyail ; shingle-slopes on Mount Burns, 
alt. 5000 ft., Crosby Smith and Cuthberi / 
I have only seen three very indifferent specimens of this, kindly lent to me by 
Mr. Petrie. Although they probably correspond with Hooker’s plant, I have thought 
it best to reproduce his description herewith. 
29. M. Monroi Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 469.—Perennial; more 
or less hispid with short stiff white hairs. Flowering stems several from the 
root, slender, decumbent below, erect or ascending above, 2-61n. high. 
Radical leaves numerous, #2in. long, narrow obovate-spathulate or 
lanceolate-spathulate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into a rather long 
slender petiole, hispid with short stiff white hairs on the upper surface, 
more sparingly so beneath and sometimes glabrous except the midrib; 
cauline smaller and narrower, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, sessile. 
Racemes pedunculate, simple or forked, many-flowered. Flowers yellow, 
t-3 in. long, shortly pedicelled. Calyx hispid with stiff white hairs, deeply 
lobed ; lobes erect, linear, acute. Corolla funnel-shaped; tube cylindric, 
rather longer than the calyx, throat with 5 scales ; limb spreading, shortly 
lobed ; lobes broad, rounded. Stamens inserted between the corolla-scales ; 
filaments twice the length of the anthers, which usually overtop the corolla- 
lobes. Ripe fruit not seen.—J/l. N.Z. Fl. ii (1914) t. 144. 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Dun Mountain, Monro, W. 7. L. Travers! Buchanan ! 
Kingsley ! T’. F.C. ; Red Hills (Wairau Valley), 7’. F. C. 3000-4500 ft. December- 
Hebruary. 
In the Handbook this was confused with M. saxosa. I have long been convinced 
of its distinctness; and Mr. N. E. Brown, who has kindly compared my specimens 
with the type of M. saxzosa, informs me that the two are in reality very different. 
30. M. eoneinna Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii (1885) 235.— 
Perennial ; everywhere clothed with fine closely appressed soft silky hairs ; 
rootstock rather long, stout. Flowering stems numerous, rather slender, 
ascending or erect, leafy, 6-14in. high. Radical leaves numerous, 2-4 in. 
long, linear- or lanceolate-spathulate to narrow oblong-spathulate, acute or 
obtuse, gradually narrowed into long rather slender petioles, both surfaces 
uniformly clothed with soft silky appressed hairs, midrib usually distinct ; 
~ catiline oblong-lanceolate or linear-oblong, sessile, acute. Racemes many- 
flowered, simple or forked, at first short and almost capitate, but elongating 
as the flowering advances. Flowers large, crowded, $-2in. long, bright 
pale-yellow or more rarely white with a yellow eye, sweet-scented, pedicellate. 
Calyx covered with appressed silky hairs, 5-partite ; lobes linear-lanceolate, 
obtuse. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped ; tube short, hardly exceeding the 
calyx, throat with 5 scales; limb large, rather longer than the tube, deeply 
lobed; lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse or acute. Stamens with very slender 
elongated filaments; anthers exserted beyond the corolla-lobes. Nutlets 
ovoid, red-brown, but not seen quite ripe—Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 470: 
lil. N.Z. Fl. ii (1914) t. 145. 
SoutaH Istanp: Nelson—lLimestone rocks on Mount Owen, Mount Arthur, 
fo cae is 3500-4500 ft. January. 
Habit of M. macrantha, but at once distinguished by the more silky indumentum, 
colour of the flowers, and particularly by the shape of the corolla, which has a short 
tube and large deeply divided limb, whereas in M. macrantha the tube is very long and 
the divisions of the limb comparatively shallow. The filaments are also much longer 
than in M. macrantha, 
