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A veiy handsome plant, variable in size from an inch to S feet, glabrous or pilose, or almost hispid with
spreading hairs. Stems short, creeping, sending down strong, thick, fibrous roots. Radieal leaves on long stout
petioles, exceedingly variable iu size and thickness on large plants; petiole 3 inches long; blade as long, ovate,
cordate, or oblong, oblique at tbe cuneate base, blunt, crenate. glabrous or hairy on both sides. Scape or flowering
stem a foot high, stout, erect, flexuose, with one or two pair of sessüe, oblong, crenate cauline leaves. Inflorescence
of one umbeUate raceme of pediceUate flowers, or several (thi-ee to seven) whorls of pediceUate flowers ; umbels or
whorls involúcrate, with many Unear-oblong leaves, much shorter than the pedicels, which are erect, slender. 1^-8
inches long. Sepals lanceolate, i inch long. Corolla white or purpUsh, with a curved tube, villous within, i inch
long, and five obovate retuse lobes. | inch across. Capsules membranous, i inch long.—I bave nnmerous specimens
of this veiy beautiful plant, which present aU varieties, from a little alpine hairy herb an inch long, with a
single white flower.^ inch across, to a stout, erect, leafy plant. 2 feet high, with long, petioled. broad leaves i foot
long, aud seven involúcrate whorls of ten flowers in each whorl, and corollas | inch in diameter, of a fine pale purple
colour. Dr. Lyall’s Chalky Bay specimens are more slender, membranous, and pilose than those from the Northern
Island. Tbey are not in flower.
2. Ouiisia macrocarpa. Hook, fil,; elata, glaberrima, caule brevi repente, foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis
vagma petioli cibatis late ovato- v. rotundato-cordatis coriaceis crenatis, scapo robusto, floribus verticillatis,
sepalis coriaceis auguste bnearibus lineari-oblongisve obtusis coriaceis glaberrimis capsulam magnam
superautibus, coroUa intus pubeseente.
Ha b . Middle Island. Husky Bay, Lyall.
Veiy nearly allied to 0. macrophylla, much resembling the largest-sized specimens of that plant, but uniformly
much more robust and glabrous, with more coriaceous broader leaves and large capsules. Sepals | inch long, linear-
oblong, blunt. Capsules very large, as long as the sepals, or nearly so. CorolU smooth inside.—My specimens
vary from a span to a foot and a kalf Mgh.
3. Ounsia cæspitosa, Hook. fil. ; bumibs, depressa, glaberrima, caule crasso repente ramosissimo,
ramis brevibus prostratis fobosis, fobis subimbricatis patubs crassis coriaceisque obovato-spathulatis breve
petiolatis recurvis obtusis obtuse 2-4,-crenatis enerviis, petiobs vaginantibus glaberrimis ciliatisve, peduncubs
brevibus crassis erectis 2-4-floris fobatis, floribus pediceUatis erectis, sepabs bnearibus obtusis tubo corollæ
brevioribus, corollæ intus pubescentis lobis tubo brevioribus.
H a b . Northern and Middle Islands. Summit of the Euahine mountains, Colenso. Milford Sound,
L}/all.
Everywhere quite smooth. Stem 2 ^ inches loug, stout, creeping, much branched, very leafy. Leaves
numerous, imbricating, patent, recurved, veiy thick and coriaceous, f - i inch long, with three to four blunt crenatures.
Fetiole sheathing at the base, glabrous or ciliated. Pednncle stout, erect, 1-2 inches high, witli one to
three pairs of small opposite bracts or leaves, from the axfis of which spring sobtary pedicels. Sepals linear, bhmt
i meh long, shorter than the broad tube of the coroba. Ules of corolU shorter thau the tube, which is glabrous
inside.
Note. I have a fragment of possibly a fourth speeies of Ourism, gathered by Mr. Colenso near Taupo, but
too imperfect for description, and perhaps only a state of 0.
Gen. IX. EUPIIEASIA, L.
Calyx tubulosus v. campanulatus, 4-fidus. Corolla galea late concava, apice 2-loba, lobis latis patentibus;
labium patens, trifidum, lobis obtusis emarginatisve, palato non plicato. Stamina didynama-
antherarum loculis mucronatis. Stylus apice subdilatatus. Capsula oblonga, compressa.
Herbaceous plants, sometimes erect, branched and shrubby at the base, generally glabrous. Uaves opposite,
lobed, toothed, or cut. Mowers solitary, axillary, spiked or subracemose, veiy variable in size in all the species.
Oalyx tubular or campanulate, quadrifid. Corolla with au arched two-lobed upper lip, and three-lobed spreading
lower one. Slamexts didynamous, under the arched upper lip. Stigma dilated.—Natives of the temperate and cold
regions of both hemispheres, but tbe species are nowhere numerous ; more so in Australia, Tasmania, and New
Zealand thau elsewhere; always very variable. (Name from joy ; in allusion to its reputed virtues.)
1. Euphrasia cuneatayYmai.; suffi’uticulosa, glaberrima v. puberula, caule simplici v. ramosissimo
erecto, ramis virgatis foliosis, foliis petiolatis obovatis cuneatis oblongo-lanceolatis spathulatisve, floribus
plurimis pediceUatis, calycis lobis brevibus obtusis, corollæ labii laciniis emarginatis, antlieris pilosis
mucronatis duarum breviorum posticarum loculo altero longius calcarato. Forst. Frodr. A. Rich. Flora.
A. Cunn. Frodr. Benth. in BC. Frodr. E. conspicua. Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic.
H a b . Northern and Middle Islands; from the Thames river to Otago; not unfrequent on the coast
and in the mountains, Banks and Solander, etc.
Erect, a span to 3 feet higb. Stem simple or much branched ; branches fasciculate, glabrous or downy, leafy.
Leaves small, petiolate, in pairs or fasciculate on short ramuli, 2-6 lines long, petiolate, very variable in breadth,
spathulate or obovate, remotely coarsely toothed. Flowers pink or purplish or yellowish, very numerous, occultin
g the axil of every leaf on the upper parts of the branches, or few, extremely variable in size (3 lin. to inch),
pedicellate. Calyx campanulate, four-lobed. Corolla with a broad funnel-shaped tube and spreading lips ; upper
shortly two-lobed. Anthei's hairy, the two posterior ivith rather unequal lobes, one lobe with a shorter spur
than the other. Capsule linear-clavate, \ inch long.—An extremely variable plant in stature and foliage, and size
of flower, depth of its lobing, etc.
2. Euphrasia antárctica, Benth. ; pusilla, glanduloso-pubescens, caule simplici v. e basi ramoso, ramis
decumbentibus dein erectis laxe foliosis sæpe bifariam puberulis, foliis sessilibus v. breve petiolatis obovatis
cuneatisve 3-5-fidis v. grosse crenato-dentatis, spicis brevibus fioribusve axillaribus pedicellatis, calyce
campanulato, lobis brevibus obtusis, corollæ tubo brevi v. exserto, limbi lobis breviusculis, capsula obovata
obtusa calyce inclusa, antlieris glaberrimis omnibus loculis subæquabter mucronatis.
Var. a ; minima, erecta, simplex v. ramosa, foliis cuneato-trifidis, coroUæ tubo brevi v. elongato.
Var. ß . major ; caule basi ramoso, ramis decumbentibus erectis, fobis obovatis 3-5-lobis crenato-
dentatisve, corollæ tubo exserto elongato.
Var. 7 . grandiflora; omnia var. ß , sed corolla i uuc. lata, tubo brevi.
H a b . Northern and Middle Islands. Var. a. Top of Ruahine and other mountains, Colenso. Var.
ß . Milford Sound, Lyall, Var. 7 . Dusky Bay, Lyall.
Mr. Colenso’s specimens of this pretty little plant seem quite the same as Fuegian ones, and form a small win’
pubescent erect herb, an inch high, with obovate-cuneate crenate leaves, a line long, and a few minute white flowers.
Calyx campanulate, twice as long as the leaves, obtusely four-toothed. Corolla 2-4 lines long ; tube as long or longer
than the calyx. Anthers equal and smooth, equally spurred. Capside membranous, obovate, blunt, included in
the calyx. Dr. LyaU’s Milford Sound specimens (var. ß) are larger, 3 inches high, much branched, slender, witii
sessile obovate lobed leaves, and calyces 3 lines long, which become pedicellati in fruit, much larger, and nearly 4
inch across the mouth. Var. y has leaves nearly 4 inch long, and fruiting calyx nearly as long, much larger
flowers, with a short tube to the corolla.—Only two or three specimens of the E. antárctica have been brought
from Tierra del Fuego, and all are in one state, a very diminutive one, so that, considering how very vari.able all
the other species of this genus are, it may be doubted how far I am correct in reducing the large New Zealand
form to varieties of the smaller Antarctic one, for the large may be the normal state of the plant, and the small
merely a variety,
3. Euphrasia revoluta, Hook. fil. ; humilis, glanduloso-pubescens vel glabrata, caule simplici decum