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572 calyx-segments broadly ovate, concave, obtuse or subacute, glabrous or sparingly pilose, keel thick, fleshy, margins scarious. Corolla-tube equalling the calyx, lobes ovate, acute, spreading or deflexed. Capsule small, ovoid, exceeding the calyx, 2-celled. Seeds usually 4 in each cell.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 227; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' v. 141. P. carnosa, ''R. Br. Prodr. 425 (not of Lam.); Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 65, t. 43; Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 207. P. picta, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. (1890) 481.

5. P. lanigera, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 227.—A small depressed species. Rootstock short, stout. Leaves numerous, all radical, spreading, forming flat rosettes 1–2 in. across, ⅓–1 in. long, oblong-spathulate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into a broad flat petiole, entire or obscurely sinuate-dentate, rather thick and fleshy, upper surface densely woolly with dirty white tortuous jointed hairs, under-surface woolly or almost glabrous. Scapes numerous, erect or inclined, at first much shorter than the leaves, but elongating as the fruit ripens, stout, densely tomentose. Spike short, 1–5-flowered; flowers small, crowded. Bracts and calyx-segments broadly ovate, subacute, glabrous, keel dark, thick and fleshy. Corolla-tube equalling the calyx; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute. Capsule exceeding the calyx, broadly oblong, obtuse, 2-celled. Seeds 6 or 7 in each cell.

6. P. triandra, ''Berggr. in Minneskr. Fisiog. Sallsk. Lund.'' (1877) 16, t. 4, f. 12–33.—Rootstock short, stout, crown densely clothed with long red-brown silky wool, rarely almost glabrous. Leaves nu-