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FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [Scrojphularinece.
A veiy handsome plant, variable in size from an inch to 2 feet, glabrous or pilose, or almost hispid with
spreading hairs. S im s short, creeping, sending down strong, thick, fibrons roots. Badical leaves on long stout
petioles, exceedingly variable in size and thickness on large plants; petiole 3 inches long; blade as long, ovate,
cordate, or oblong, oblique at the cuneate base, blunt, crenate. glabrous or hairy on both sides. Scape or flmvering
stem a foot high, stout, erect, flexuose, with one or two pair of sessUe. oblong, crenate cauline leaves. Inflorescence
of one nmbeUate raceme of pediceUate flowers, or several (three to seven) whorls of pediceUate flowers ; umbels or
whorls involúcrate, with many linear-oblong leaves, mucb shorter than the pedicels, which are erect, slender, 14-2
inches long. Sepals lanceolate, i inch long. Corolla white or purplish, with a curved tube, villous within, 4 inch
long, and five obovate retuse lobes, | inch across. Capsules membranous. 4 inch long.—I have numerous specimens
of this very beautiful plant, which present all varieties, from a little alpine hairy herb an inch long, witli a
single white flower 1 inch across, to a stout, erect, leafy plant, 2 feet high, with long, petioled, broad leaves 4 foot
long, and seven involúcrate whorls of ten flowers in each whorl, and corollas | inch iu diameter, of a fine pale purple
colour. Dr. Lyall’s Chalky Bay specimens are more slender, membranous, and pflose than those from the Northern
Island. They are not in flower.
2. Ourisia macrocarpa, Hook, fil.; elata, glaberrima, caule brevi repente, foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis
vagina petioli ciliatis late ovato- v. rotunda to-cordatis coriaceis crenatis, scapo robusto, floribus verticillatis,
sepalis coriaceis auguste linearibus lineari-oblongisve obtusis coriaceis glaberrimis capsulam magnam
superantibus, corolla in tu s pubescente.
H a b . Middle Islan d . Dusky Bay, L ya lL
Very nearly allied to 0. macropliylla, much resembflng the largest-sized specimens of that plant, but uniformly
much more robust and glabrous, with more coriaceous broader leaves and large capsules. Sepals i incb long, linear-
oblong, blunt. Capsules veiy large, as long as the sepals, or nearly so, CoroUa smooth inside.—My specimens
vary from a span to a foot and a half high.
3. Ou n sia cæspitosa. Hook. fil. ; humilis, depressa, glaberrima, caule crasso repente ramosissimo,
ramis brevibus p rostratis foliosis, foliis subimbricatis patulis crassis coriaceisque obovato-spathulatis breve
petiolatis r e c um s obtusis obtuse 2 -4 -c ren a tis enerviis, petiolis vaginantibus glaberrimis ciliatisve, pedunculis
brevibus crassis erectis 2-4 -floris foliatis, floribus pedicellatis erectis, sepalis linearibus obtusis tubo corollæ
brevioribus, corollæ in tu s pubescentis lobis tubo brevioribus.
H a b . N o rth e rn and Middle Islands. Summit of th e Euahine mountains, Colenso. Milford Sound
Scrophularineæ?) FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND.
Everywhere quite smooth. Stems inches long, stout, creeping, much branched, very leafy, leaves
numerous, imbricatmg, patent, recurved, veiy thick and coriaceous, A - i inch long, with three to four blunt crenatures.
Petiole sheathing at the base, glabrous or ciUated. Peduncle stout, erect. 1 -2 inches high, witli one to
three pairs of smaU opposite bracts or leaves, from the axils of which spring solitary pedicels. Sepals linear, blunt
4 meh long, shorter than the broad tube of the coroUa, Lobes o f corolla shorter than the tube, which is glabrous
inside. “
N ote. I have a fragment of possibly a fourth species of Ourisia, gathered by Mr. Colenso near Taupo, bnt
too imperfect for description, and perhaps only a state of 0. maerophjlU.
Gen. IX . E U PH E A S IA , L .
Calyx tubulosus v. campanulatus, 4-fidus. CorolU galea late concava, apice 2-loba, lobis latis patentib
u s ; labium patens, trifidum, lobis obtusis emarginatisve, palate non plicato. Stamina didynama ■
antherarum loculis mucronatis. S ty lu s apice subdilatatus. Capmla oblonga, compressa.
Herbaceous plants, sometimes erect, branched and shrubby at the base, generally glabrous. Leave, opposite.
lobed, toothed, or cut. Flowers solitary, axillary, spiked or subracemose, very variable in size in all tbe species.
Calyx tubular or campanulate, quadrifid. Corolla witb an arclied two-lobed upper lip, and three-lobed spreading
lower one. Stamens 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 (v4)pa<Tia, Joy ; in allusion to its reputed virtues.)
1. Eu p h ra sia cuneata, E o rs t.; suffruticulosa, glaberrima v. puberula, caule simplici v. ramosissimo
erecto, ramis virgatis foliosis, foliis petiolatis obovatis cuneatis oblongo-lanceolatis spathulatisve, floribus
plurimis pedicellatis, calycis lobis brevibus obtusis, coroHæ labii laciniis emarginatis, antheris pilosis
mucronatis duarum breviorum posticarum loculo altero longius calcarato. Forst. Frodr. A, R ich . Flora.
A . Cunn. Frodr. B en th . in BC . Frodr. E . conspicua, B a n k s e t Sol. M S S . et Ic.
H ab. N o rth e rn and Middle Is la n d s ; from th e Thames river to O tag o ; n o t u nfrequent on th e coast
and in th e mountains, B a n k s a n d Solander, etc.
Erect, a span to 3 feet high. 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, occupying
the axil of every leaf on the upper parts of the branches, or few, extremely variable in size (3 lin. to f inch),
pedicellate. Calyx campanulate, four-lobed. Corolla with a broad funnel-shaped tube and spreading lips ; upper
shortly two-lobed. Antheis hairy, the two posterior w th rather unequal lobes, one lobe with a shorter spur
than the other. Capsule linear-clavate, inch long.—An extremely variable plant in statm-e and foliage, and size
of flower, depth of its lobing, etc.
2. Eu p h ra sia antárctica, Ben th . ; pusilla, glanduloso-pubescens, caule simplici v. e basi ramoso, ramis
decumbentibus dein erectis laxe foliosis sæpe bifariam puberulis, foliis sessibbus v. breve petiolatis obovatis
cuneatisve 3 -5-fidis v. grosse crenato-dentatis, spicis brevibus floribusve axblaribus pedicellatis, calyce
campanulato, lobis brevibus obtusis, corollæ tubo brevi v. exserto, limbi lobis breviusculis, capsula obovata
obtusa calyce inclusa, antheris glaberrimis omnibus loculis subæqualiter mucronatis.
Var. a ; minima, erecta, simplex v. ramosa, foliis cuneato-trifldis, coroUæ tubo brevi v. elongato.
Var. /3. major ; caule basi ramoso, ramis decumbentibus erectis, fobis obovatis 3 -5 -lo b is creiiato-
dentatisve, corollæ tubo exserto elongato.
Var. 7 . g ra n d iflo ra -, omnia var. /3, sed corolla i uuc. lata, tu b o brevi.
H a b . N o rth e rn and Middle Islands. Var. a. Top of Ruahine and other mountains, Colenso. Var.
(8. Milford Sound, L y a ll. Var. 7 . Dusky Bay, L ya ll.
Mr. Colenso’s specimens of this pretty little plant seem quite the same as Fuegian ones, and form a small wiry
pubescent erect herb, an inch high, with obovate-eimeate 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 tbe calyx. Anthers equal and smooth, equally spurred. Capsule membranous, obovate, blunt, included in
the oalyx. Dr. Lyall’s Milford Sound specimens (var. /3) are larger, 3 inches high, much branched, slender, with
sessile obovate lobed leaves, and calyces 3 hues long, whicli 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 diubnutivc one, so tbat, considering how very variable 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. Euphra sia revoluta, Hook. fil. ; humilis^ glanduloso-pubescens vel glabrata, caule simpbci decum