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Myosotis.] lobes linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla funnel-shaped; tube short, hardly exceeding the calyx, throat naked or furnished with 5 scales, limb equalling the tube or slightly longer than it. Stamens inserted on the corolla-tube; filaments longer than the anthers, sometimes elongated; anthers altogether above the level of the scales and frequently reaching ¾-way up the corolla-lobes. Nutlets ovoid, pale-brown, smooth and shining, much compressed, margins thin.—D.C. Prodr. x. 112; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 201; Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 193. Anchusa spathulata, ''R. Br. ex Rœm. and Schult. Syst.'' iv. 100; ''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 392; Raoul, Choix'', 43.

15. M. petiolata, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 202.—Perennial; sparsely clothed with short white scabrid hairs; rootstock long, stout or slender; stems usually numerous, decumbent or prostrate at the base, then ascending, slender, sparingly leafy, 4–14 in. long. Radical and lower cauline leaves on long slender petioles ½–3 in. long; blade ⅔–2 in., broadly elliptic-oblong or elliptic-obovate, apiculate or rounded or retuse at the tip, thin and membranous, both surfaces slightly scabrid; upper cauline sessile, broadly obovate-spathulate. Racemes long, slender, many-flowered, simple or forked. Flowers ¼–⅓ in. diam., white or white with a yellow eye; pedicels rather long, slender, spreading. Calyx clothed with straight appressed hairs, 5-lobed almost to the base; lobes linear, acute. Corolla broad, campanulate; tube very short, with 5 scales at the throat; limb several times longer than the tube, deeply 5-lobed; lobes oblong, spreading. Stamens with long and slender filaments; anthers far exserted beyond the tube, almost reaching the top of the corolla-lobes. Nutlets broadly ovoid, polished and shining, dark red-brown or black.—Exarrhena petiolata, ''Hook. f. Handh. N.Z. Fl.'' 195.

Cliffs north of the Manukau Harbour, T. F. C.; East Cape, Bishop Williams! Hawke's Bay and Cape Turnagain, Colenso! Patangata,