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keeled below, lateral veins wanting, margins slightly thickened; upper 
surface dull-green, midrib and margins often reddish-brown beneath. 
_Racemes few in the axils of the upper leaves, twice as long as the leaves, 
dense-flowered ; rhachis slender, sparsely pubescent, the lower third naked. 
Flowers small, fin. diam., white. Calyx 4-partite ; lobes thin, oblong, 
ciliate. Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx, lobes rounded. Mature 
capsules not seen. 
- North Istanp: ‘Tararua Mountains, upper part of the forest-belt on Mount 
Holdsworth, altitude 2800 ft., Petrie! Mount Hector, B. C. Aston / 
This appears to be a distinct species, easily recognized by the flat and rather thin 
elliptic acute leaves, dense racemes, and small white flowers. a . ae 
42. M. subalpina Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxi (1899) 420.— 
A much-branched erect shrub 3-6 ft. high ; branches suberect or spreading, 
terete, glabrous or the younger ones minutely puberulous, leafy above, 
below ringed with the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves spreading, sessile, 
ql} in. long, 4-4 in. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, broadest below 
the middle, acute or subacute, subcoriaceous, pale glistening-green, slightly 
concave above when fresh, flat when dry, margins entire. Racemes 2-4 
near the tips of the branches, equalling the leaves or longer than them, 
I-2in. long, simple, dense- or lax-flowered ; rhachis ‘slender, puberulous ; 
lower pedicels slender, usually exceeding the calyx; bracts small. Calyx 
deeply 4-partite ; segments ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, acute, margins 
ciholate. Corolla-tube short and broad, hardly exceeding the calyx; limb 
longer than the tube, 4-lobed ; lobes oblong, obtuse. Capsule din. long, 
ovate, acute, compressed, about twice as long as the calyx.—Cheesem, Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 519. 
South Istanp: Nelson—Clarence Valley, 7. Kirk! T. F. C.; Lake Tennyson, 
T. F. C., R. M. Laing! Canterbury—Arthur’s Pass and Upper Waimakariri, J. D. 
Hinys! T. Kirk! T. F. C., Cockayne! Rakaia Valley, Haast / Mount Arrowsmith, 
Cockayne and R. M. Laing ; Mount Cock district, T. F.C. ; Copeland Pass, Cockayne / 
Westland—Kelly’s Hill, Jackson’s, &c., Peirie, Cockayne, P. G. Morgan! Otago— 
Haast River and Makarora Valley, Poppelwell ; Clinton Valley, Cockayne, F. G. Gibbs / 
Hyre Mountains, Poppelwell ; Lake Harris, 7’. Kirk / _ 2500-4500 ft._ December- 
March. a Bike Ss hry enroll farg TS :7P 3 
Very close to V. Traversit, as I understand that plant, but, I think, sufficiently 
distinct in the different habit, flatter lanceolate leaves, which taper from below the 
middie to an acute or subacute apex, acute calyx-lobes, and short and broad corolla- 
tube. Mr. N. E. Brown informs me that specimens collected by Haast and Hector 
and Buchanan exist in the Kew Herbarium, but were referred to V. Traversii by 
Hooker. It is an abundant subalpine plant along the central chain of the Southern 
Alps. 
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43. VW. vernicosa Hook. /, Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 208.—A small usually 
rather stout erect or decumbent shrub 1-3 ft. high; branches spreading, 
often in the same plane, pubescent at the tips or almost glabrous. Leaves 
close-set, decussately inserted but often becoming almost distichous from 
the twisting of the petioles, spreading, petiolate, 1-2 in. long, 4-4 In. broad, 
obovate or obovate-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, suddenly contracted into 
the short petiole, coriaceous, flat or slightly concave ; midrib impressed 
above, thick and prominent beneath, excurrent ; margins entire, some- 
times ciliolate when young. Racemes few or many near the tips of the 
branches, $—-14in. long, simple, usually dense-flowered but sometimes lax ; 
thachis, pedicels, and bracts pubescent ; pedicels variable in length, some- 
times almost wanting, at other times equalling the bracts. Flowers white, 
