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Title: Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Royal Society of New Zealand
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Wellington, N.Z. : The Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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in neither of these species ; ifindehiscent in both, they would form a genus instead of a subgenus, underwhich I now place them with the name Anagosperma from the reducednumber of seeds. He further states that E. disperma is distinguished fromall other Scrophularinece by its solitary ovules. Thymele^.Fimelea haastii. A strict low-growing shrub 6-10 inches high. Branches few (?), veryslender, white with silky hairs. Leaves in distant pairs, petioled, ascend-ing, narrow lanceolate, f-li long, acute, hairy below, or nearly glabrous,margins recurved ; floral leaves similar. Flowers 5-8 in a head, very small,perianth swollen below, sessile, silky, lobes narrow, spreading; filamentsshort; style equalling the perianth tube. Fruit not seen. Hah,—^ouih. Island : Canterbury Alps—Pro/mor von Haast, Mr, Arm-strong, Although this plant appears very different from any other New Zealandform it is difficult to lay down satisfactory characters apart from the foHage TRANS. N.Z.lNSTITUTE.VOLffiPl.IK
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EUPHRASIA D/SPERMA. HockJil JB. liiK: T. Kirk.—On a new Species o/Cladopliora. 397 anil remarkable habit, in both of which it differs widely from its congeners.It is most nearly related to P. virgata, Vahl., but differs in the distant,erect leaves, which are broader and less acute than in that well-knownspecies. In its slender habit and distant leaves it approaches the TasmanianP. jiliforniis, but the flowers are very different, and the stems althoughextremely slender are not flexuous. Two or three small specimens of our plant are preserved in the Herba-rium of the Canterbury Museum, and were collected during Dr. Haastsearlier exploration in the Southern Alps. The precise habitat is unknown,but there is reason to believe that they were collected in the vicinity of thePorter River. I have received small specimens from Mr. Armstrong,marked, habitat unknown, but probably obtained from the same localityas those of Professor von Haast. DESCEIPTION OF PLATE XIV. Euphrasia dispemia, Hook.

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