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4. D. spathulata, ''Labill. Nov. Holl. Pl.'' i. 79, t. 106, f. 1.—Stemless. Leaves numerous, crowded, rosulate, ⅓–¾ in. long; blade $1⁄8$–$1⁄3$ in., spathulate or obovate or orbicular-obovate, narrowed into a broad and flat petiole of varying length, upper surface and margins covered with glandular hairs; stipules scarious, narrow, laciniate. Scapes 1 or several, 1–6 in. high, usually bearing a second raceme of 3–7 flowers, but often 2–3-flowered or even 1-flowered. Flowers small, $1⁄5$ in. diam., white or rose. Calyx deeply divided; lobes 5, linear-oblong. Petals 5. rather longer than the calyx. Styles 3, 2-partite almost to the base, branches entire or again forked.—''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 20; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 63; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' ii. 459; Kirk, Students' Fl. 146. D. propinqua, ''R. Cunn. Precur.'' n. 620. D. minutula. ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxi. (1889) 81. D. triflora. Col. l.c. xxii. (1890) 461.

5. D. binata, ''Labill. Nov. Holl. Pl.'' i. 78, t. 105, f. 1.—Stemless. Rootstock short, emitting numerous fleshy roots. Leaves all radical, erect; petioles 2–5 in. long, slender, glabrous; blade 2–4 in., divided to the base into 2 narrow-linear segments $1⁄15$–$1⁄10$ broad, which are simple or again forked, upper surface and margins clothed with long glandular hairs. Scapes exceeding the leaves, 6–18 in. high, slender, glabrous, bearing a loose cyme of few or many rather large white flowers ⅓–½ in. diam. Calyx deeply 4–5-lobed; lobes oblong, entire or lacerate at the tips. Petals 4–5, obovate, twice as long as the calyx. Styles usually 3, penicillate.—''Bot. Mag. t. 3082; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 20; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 64; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' ii. 461; Kirk, Students Fl. 146. D. intermedia, ''R. Cunn. Precur.'' n. 621. D. flagellifera, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxiii. (1891) 384.

6. D. auriculata, ''Backh. ex Planch. in Ann. Sci. Nat.'' Ser. 3, ix. (1848) 295.—Rootstock slender, terminating in a globose tuber deep