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Myosotis.]

18. M. saxosa, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 202.—Perennial, small, stout, leafy, very densely hispid with rather long soft white hairs. Flowering stems decumbent at the base, ascending above, 2–3 in. high. Leaves ½–¾ in. long, Imear-spathulate, subacute or apiculate, on broad petioles. Racemes pedunculate, few-flowered; flowers crowded, shortly pedicellate. Calyx nearly ¼ in. long, deeply 5-partite; lobes linear. Corolla funnel-shaped; throat with 5 scales. Anthers shghtly exserted.—Exarrhena saxosa, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 196, so far as the North Island specimens are concerned. E. Colensoi, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 351 (in part).

19. M. Monroi, Cheesem. n. sp.—Perennial; more or less hispid with short stiff white hairs. Flowering stems several from the root, slender, decumbent below, erect or ascending above, 2–6 in. high. Radical leaves numerous, ¾–2 in. long, narrow obovate-spathulate or lanceolate-spathulate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into a rather long slender petiole, hispid with short stiff white hairs on the upper surface, more sparingly so beneath and sometimes glabrous except the midrib; cauline smaller and narrower, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, sessile. Racemes pedunculate, simple or forked, many-flowered. Flowers yellow, ¼–⅓ in. long, shortly pedicelled. Calyx hispid with stiff white hairs, deeply lobed; lobes erect, linear, acute. Corolla funnel-shaped; tube cylindric, rather longer than the calyx, throat with 5 scales; limb spreading, shortly lobed; lobes broad, rounded. Stamens inserted between the corolla-scales; filaments twice the length of the anthers, which usually overtop the corolla-lobes. Ripe fruit not seen.—M. saxosa, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 196 (in part'').