Ourisia.| SCROPHULARIACEAR. 8357 
or almost fleshy, bright-green, glabrous or the margins of the petioles 
ciliate, entire or more usually with 1-3 deep notches or crenatures. 
Peduneles strict, erect, 1-3 in. long, 1-5-flowered, glabrous, as are the bracts, 
pedicels, and calyces. Bracts 1 or 2 pairs, similar to the leaves; pedicels 
slender. Flowers 3-3in. diam., white. Calyx 4+in. long, 5-partite; seg- 
ments oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, often dilated at the tip. Corolla- 
tube broad, rather longer than the calyx; lobes broad, rounded. Capsule 
din. long, ovate-oblong.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 219; Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 551. TFG TRL AWT. 
Var. gracilis Hook. f. l.c. (1867) 738.—Much more slender. Leaves smaller, ;4,-4 in. 
long. Peduncles slender, 1—2-flowered; bracts small. Flowers smaller, 4-4 in. diam. 
Calyx-segments linear-oblong. 
Norta Istanp: Summit of Mount Hikurangi, Adams and Petrie/ Ruahine 
Mountains, Colenso!/ Tongariro, Cockayne ; ; Kaimanawa Mountains, B. C. Aston / 
Tararua Mountains. 7. P. Arnold! W. Townson! Mount Hector, Petrie. SoutH 
Istanp: Not uncommon in mountainous localities from Nelson to Foveaux Strait. 
Stewart Isnanp: Upper slopes of Mount Anglem, 7. Kirk. Var. gracilis: High 
lands of Canterbury and Otago, Haast, Buchanan, Cockayne ! 3000-6500 ft. 
December—February. 
A pretty little plant, easily recognized by the matted habit, small bright-green 
almost glabrous leaves, and glabrous peduncle, bracts, and calyces. 
0. modesta Diels in Fedde Repertoriwm, vii (1909) 114.—Forming 
small pale-green matted patches 2-4in. diam. Stems creeping and rooting 
at the nodes, wiry, much branched. Leaves minute; petiole 3-4 in. 
long, more or less villous or ciliate; blade 4-1 in., elliptic-rounded, cordate 
or reniform at the base, quite entire or emarginate, somewhat thick and 
fleshy, margins sometimes faintly ciliate. Flowers solitary; peduncles 
zin. long. Calyx 4-lobed or rarely 5-lobed; tube iin. long; lobes 
narrow-elliptic, eS or emarginate at the apex. Corolla 5-lobed ; 
tube tin. long, in. diam.; lobes more or less rounded. Anthers. reni- 
form, cells at length confluent. Ovary glabrous, ovoid; stigma capitate- 
discoid. —Cockayne Rep. Bot. Stewart I :. (1909) 44. ‘ 
Stewart Istanp: Wet Pes res in the Rakiahua Valley, Cockayne. December-— 
January. mind jranms S$ °-/926: 72. 
IT have not seen specimens of this. Dr. Diels states that it is closely allied to 
O. caespitosa var. gracilis, but is readily distinguished by the longer petioles and much 
smaller flowers. 
9. O. prorepens Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxv (1893) 272.—Stems 
rather slender, branched, creeping and rooting, 2-4in. long, glandular- 
hairy. Leaves close-set, spreading, distichous, 1-2in. long, obovate, 
rounded at the tip, narrowed into a broad thin petiole at the base, crenate, 
densely glandular-pilose above, almost glabrate with the veins conspicuous 
beneath. Peduncles erect, 2-4 in. high, sparingly glandular - pubescent, 
3—6-flowered. Bracts 1 or 2 prs, similar to the leaves, nearly pose 
penioels slender. Flowers large, 3in. diam., white. Calyx about +1n. 
long, 5-partite; segments oblong, obtuse, sparingly glandular - pubescent. 
Corolla-tube longer “than the calyx ; lobes broad, rounded. Ripe capsules 
not seen.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 551. 
‘Soutra Isnanp: Otago—Mount Bonpland, Petrie! Mount Kyeburn and Mackin- 
non’s Pass, H. J. Matthews! Routeburn, Poppelwell. Srewart Isranp: Upper 
slopes of Mount Anglem, Cockayne. 4000-5000 ft. 
A puzzling plant, agreeing in some of its characters with O. sessilifolia, O. glandu- 
losa, and O. caespitosa, but which cannot ah satisfactorily placed with any of the three 
