Wahlenbergqia. | CAMPANULACEAE. 89] 
9 W. Colensoi NV. 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 3-3 of the way up the stems, 
3:—-;% in. long, the lower mostly obovate or spathulate-oblanceolate, passing 
into 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 1-2} 1n. 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 73-4 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 Souru 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 (7. F. C.). 
I have reproduced Mr. N. E. Brown’s actual description, showing how he distin- 
guishes it from reduced states of W. gracilis. 
3. W. vineaeflora Decaisne in Rev. Hort. Ser. iii (1849) 41.—Stem 
9-18in. high, 1-3-flowered, glabrous. Leaves confined to the lower 4 
of the stem, opposite or alternate or the basal subrosulate, 3-2} in. long, 
js—1in. broad, linear to oblong or those of the rosette spathulate, often 
wavy, glabrous. Calyx 5-lobed, glabrous; lobes 4-2 in. long, ascending- 
spreading, subulate-attenuate, acute; tube (ovary) narrowly obconic, 
uniformly green. Corolla 1-I}in. in diam., glabrous, light bright blue or 
white; tube campanulate, 4in. long and as much in diameter; lobes 
spreading, }-2in. long, 4-}in. broad, ovate or elliptic-ovate, obtuse or 
subacute, with a small apiculus.—Lindl. et Paxton Flower Gard. 11 (1851) 
18, fig. 142; Irving in Gard. Chron, li (1912) 216; N. E. Brown wn 
Gard. Chron. liv (1913) 355. Campanula vincaeflora Ventenat Hort. 
Malm. (1803) t. 12. C. gracilis Bot. Mag. (1803) t. 691 (not of Forst.). 
New ZEALAND: On the authority of N. H. Brown (“ Gardener’s Chronicle ’’). 
The above description is that given by Mr. Brown in his memoir. From the 
synonyms quoted by him it appears to have been included by previous writers ( notably 
Hooker and Bentham) under the circumscription of W. gracilis. But I have never seen 
any New Zealand specimens of W. gracilis with flowers that at all approach in size that 
given by Mr. Brown in his description of W. vincaeflora. But W. albomarginata has 
flowers of somewhat similar magnitude. The position of the two plants requires careful 
examination. 
4. W. albomarginata Hook. Ic. Plant. (1852) t. 818.—A small perennial 
herb 4-12 in. high, either simple or with a branched rootstock putting up 
few or several erect stems, usually leafy at the base only. Leaves 10-12, 
mostly or all radical, laxly or compactly rosulate, 2-1 in. long, $-4 in. broad, 
spathulate, the blade varying from oblanceolate to broadly obovate, obtuse 
or subacute, greenish, but the margins and under-surface often reddish- 
brown; petioles frequently furnished with reflexed hairs. Peduncles 1 or 
few,to a rosette, 3-10 in. high, 1-flowered, glabrous. Calyx-tube obconic ; 
lobes 5, ovate-subulate, brownish-green. Corolla §-13in. diam., campanu- 
late, white or pale-blue ; lobes spreading. Capsule obconic. Seeds numerous, 
