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Wahlenbergia.] entire or obscurely toothed or crenate, in alpuie specimens often thick and coriaceous; margins sometimes white and cartilaginous. Peduncles leafless, 1-flowered, 2–8 in. high. Flowers variable in size, ⅓–1 in. diam., white or pale-blue. Calyx-tube obconic; lobes ovate-subulate, shorter than the corolla-tube. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed, straight or slightly oblique. Anthers short, linear-oblong, 1 or 2 of them tipped with a short point. Capsule obconic or turbinate, 2–3-celled. Seeds numerous, compressed, smooth.—''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 160; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 170; Fl. Tasm. i. 239, t. 71; Bot. Mag. t. 6613; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' iv. 138. W. albomarginata, ''Hook. Ic. Plant.'' t. 818. W. pygmaea, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxxi. (1899) 273. Streleskia montana, ''Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot.'' vi. (1847) 266. Campanula saxicola, ''B. Br. Prodr.'' 561.

3. W. cartilaginea, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 170.—A small glabrous or pubescent perennial herb 1–4 in. high. Leaves mostly radical, ⅓–1 in. long, broadly spathulate, obtuse, very thick and coriaceous; margins much thickened, entire, white, cartilaginous; petioles broad and flat, thickly coriaceous. Peduncles short, stout, erect, naked or with 1 or 2 leaves, sometimes forked. Flower large for the size of the plant, ½–¾ in. diam., sweet-scented. Calyx-tube short, almost globose; lobes large, linear-oblong, with thick white cartilaginous margins. Corolla shorter than the calyx-lobes and included within them, broad, 5-partite almost to the base. Capsule turbinate.