Wahlenbergia. | CAMPANULACEAE. 891 
9 W. Colensoi N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. liv (1913) 317.— 
“A slender annual 1$-6in. high, sometimes with a single stem, but 
usually with 3 to many stems to a root, erect, slender, roughly hairy with 
spreading (not deflexed) hairs on the basal part for }-4 of the total height. 
Leaves alternate or opposite, usually extending 4-3 of the way up the stems, 
#, in. long, the lower mostly obovate or spathulate-oblanceolate, passing 
‘nto lanceolate or linear on the upper part of the stems, all more or less 
pubescent with spreading hairs on both sides or the uppermost glabrous, 
usually wavy, with the margins very distinctly thickened or hardened and 
scabrid (not smooth), sometimes toothed. Pedicels 1-24 in. long, glabrous. 
Calyx 3-4 (rarely 5) -lobed, glabrous ; tube (ovary) ellipsoid in fruit and 
tin. long; lobes erect, linear or deltoid-linear, subacute. Corolla very 
small, 3-4 (rarely 5) -lobed, in dried specimens 2,4 in. long with lanceo- 
late acute lobes.” —W. gracilis var. capillaris Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 
159: Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 170. 
Nort anp SoutH Istanps (?): Probably not uncommon in lowland districts, 
but its range has not been made out with certainty. I have seen specimens from 
several localities between Mangonui (H. Carse /) and Rotorua (T. F. C.). | 
I have reproduced Mr. N. E. Brown’s actual description, showing how he distin- 
guishes it from reduced states of W. gracilis. 
= ee : a ya . . n ims ’ a a LT OAD Aq (ma Petar 
igh 
0618 in. high | 14-6 in. hi 
rs. &£ -14 in. long | Lys. 1/72 ~9/12 in. 
inear lanceolate Long ly 
| lower obovate or m, 
spathulate- y 
lanceolate ul 
q margins scabrid 
icels # -14 in. | Pedicels 1-22 in. 
Seloped Calyx 3-4~lobed ; 
-3 lines rarely 5-lobed 2 
4/40..1/6 4 
Lf esas / ‘2 Like 1, 
linear or | Loves subulate 3 
‘Ltoid-linear a 
bacute yery acute 4 
la 5~lLobed | Corolla 3-4-Lobed 1 
: rarely 5=Lobed s 
