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452 Nouvelle Zélande," which is professedly taken from Forster's manuscripts. Probably the species will be found in suitable localities along the wnole of the western coast, from the Karamea River and Westport to Dusky Sound.

8. G. patula, Cheesem. n. sp.—Usually perennial; root stout or slender. Stems one or several from the root, often decumbent at the base, erect above, simple or branched, 5–20 in. high. Radical leaves usually numerous, 1–3 in long, oblong-spathulate or lanceolate-spathulate, rarely broader and ovate-spathulate, acute or obtuse, coriaceous or slightly membranous. Cauline leaves in 1–5 opposite pairs, oblong or linear-oblong or lanceolate, sessile. Flowers large, ¾–1 in. diam., white, in few- or many-flowered terminal umbels or corymbose cymes. Calyx divided nearly three-quarters way down; lobes linear-oblong, acute or obtuse. Corolla deeply divided; lobes oblong or broadly oblong, rounded at the tip.—G. saxosa var. b, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 191. G. bellidifolia var. patula, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 336.

9. G. bellidifolia, ''Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Plant.'' i. 635.—Perennial; variable in size and habit, the typical form with a stout fusiform root crowned with numerous short densely compacted stems, the flowering ones few or many, 1–6 in. high. Radical leaves numerous, crowded, rosulate, ½–1½ in. long, spathulate or linear-spathulate, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole, coriaceous or fleshy, nerves usually indistinct. Cauline leaves few, distant, linear-oblong to linear-obovate, obtuse, sessile, often recurved. Flowers large, white, ⅔–¾ in. diam. or even more, terminal, solitary or in 2–6-flowered cymes. Calyx one-half the length of the corolla or shorter; lobes linear-oblong to elliptic-ovate, subacute. Corolla divided three-quarters way down; lobes obovate-oblong, rounded at the tip. Ovary shortly stipitate.—Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 336. G. saxosa var. a, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 191 (not of Forst.)''.