Myosotis. | BORAGINACEAE. 761 
31. M. macrantha Hook. f. and Benth. Gen. Plant. 1 (1876) 859. — 
_ Perennial; more or less densely clothed with soft spreading or appressed 
hairs; rootstock stout; flowering stems numerous, ascending, rather 
stout, leafy, 6-14in. high. Radical leaves 2-6in. long, lanceolate- 
spathulate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into 
rather long broad petioles, both surfaces clothed with rather soft 
appressed hairs; cauline linear-oblong, sessile or the lower alone 
shortly petioled. Racemes many-flowered, simple or branched, short in 
the flowering stage but elongating in fruit, densely softly hispid. 
Flowers large, crowded, 3-1 in. long, brownish-orange, deliciously sweet- 
scented ; pedicels very short. Calyx hispid with straight or hooked hairs, 
5-lobed 3-way down; lobes linear, obtuse or subacute. Corolla funnel- 
shaped: tube long and slender, twice the length of the calyx, throat with 
5 scales; limb with 5 oblong obtuse lobes. Stamens with filaments as 
long as or rather longer than the anthers; anthers wholly above the level 
of the scales. Style slender, longer than the corolla. Nutlets linear- 
oblong, shining, black.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 471. Exarrhena 
macrantha Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 195. 
Var. pulehra. —Similar in size and habit, but more diffuse and less hispid. 
Leaves thinner and more membranous, sometimes almost glabrous beneath. Corolla 
23in. long; tube much broader, almost campanulate, scales wanting in all the 
flowers examined. Filaments shorter than the anthers; anthers just reaching the 
sinus between the corolla-lobes. 
Var. westlandiea Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. | (1918) 210.—Radical leaves longer 
and much thinner, softly pilose. Flowering stems longer and more slender. Flowers 
yellow. 
Sout Istanp: Subalpine localities from Nelson to the south-west of Otago ; 
not uncommon, especially in the central and western portions of the Southern Alps. 
2000-5000 ft. December—February. Var. westlandica: Rangitaipo, Teremakau 
Valley, Westland, Cockayne! Petrie ! 
A remarkably handsome plant. The filaments are never much longer than the 
anthers, and in var. pulchra are nearly as short as in the typical species of Myosotvs, 
but as they are inserted high up the tube the anthers reach well up the corolla-limb. 
2. MYOSOTIDIUM Hook. 1% 54 
A stout succulent herb, 1-3 ft. high. Radical leaves large, broadly 
ovate-cordate or almost reniform; cauline sessile. Flowers blue, in dense 
corymbose cymes. Calyx deeply 5-partite. Corolla-tube short, throat 
with 5 protuberances; limb subrotate; lobes 5, spreading, obtuse, 
imbricate. Stamens 5, affixed to the tube of the corolla; filaments 
very short; anthers included. Ovary 4-lobed; style very short, thick ; 
stigma capitate. Fruit large, thick and spongy, pyramidal, 4-angled, 
composed of 4 coriaceous winged nutlets adhering to a central column. 
A very remarkable monotypic genus confined to the Chatham Islands. 
1. M. nobile Hook. Bot. Mag. (1859) t. 5137.— Perennial, stout, 
pilose; rootstock long, thick, cylindrical. Radical leaves crowded, 
6-12 in. long, broadly ovate-cordate or reniform, petioled, very thick and 
fleshy, bright-green and glabrous, strongly nerved; cauline few, broadly 
ovate or oblong, sessile. Cymes dense, subglobose, 3-6 in. diam., many- 
flowered. Flowers 4in. diam., dark-blue in the centre, fading towards 
the outside, scentless ; pedicels 4-4 in. long. Calyx-lobes broadlv oblong, 
obtuse, more or less hispid with short appressed hairs. Corolla rotate ; 
Bull 
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