parts, and the slender excessively branched inflorescence, the flowers being almost hidden amongst the crowded leaves and bracts. It is sometimes reduced to a broad rosette of leaves with a short spike-like cluster of densely crowded flowers.
16. G. antipoda, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 340.—Perennial; whole plant very minutely verrucose. Stems numerous, stout, decumbent below, erect above, 3–10 in. high. Leaves ¾–1½ in. long, linear-spathulate or lingulate, obtuse, narrowed into a rather long flat petiole; lower crowded, often spreading or recurved; upper more remote, smaller and with shorter petioles, ascending or erect. Flowers small, ¼–⅓ in. long, white or white streaked with red, usually numerous on slender erect axillary braachlets, each flower in the axil of a linear bract, but sometimes the flowers are solitary in the axils of the cauline leaves. Calyx slightly shorter than the corolla, divided almost to the base; lobes linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla very thin, divided about ⅔ -way down: lobes linear-oblong.
Antipodes Island: Abundant, Kirk!
Perhaps too close to the preceding, from which it mainly differs in the more numerous stems and narrower lingulate leaves. Mr. Kirk distinguished two forms, one with yellowish stems and white flowers, the other with reddish stems and flowers streaked with red.
It should be remarked that both this species and G. antarctica occasionally produce much smaller flowers which have smaller almost sessile anthers and ovaries with fewer ovules. Probably these flowers are cleistogamic, but my specimens are not sufficiently good to determine this.
3. LIPAROPHYLLUM, Hook. f.
A small creeping herb. Leaves linear, tufted, entire. Peduncles solitary, terminal, 1-flowered. Flowers small, white. Calyx deeply 5-partite; segments linear. Corolla subrotate, deeply 5-lobed; lobes with broad thin margins, induplicate-valvate. Stamens 5; filaments short, broad; anthers oblong. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 parietal placentas; style very short; stigma broadly 2-lamellate. Fruit globose, fleshy or succulent, indehiscent. Seeds numerous; testa crustaceous.
A monotypic genus, confined to New Zealand and Tasmania.
1. L. Gunnii, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. (1847) 472.—Small, perfectly glabrous. Rhizome 3–9 in. long, stout, creeping, branched, emitting long thick rootlets. Leaves tufted,
½–1 in. long, narrow-linear or linear-spathulate, obtuse, thick and fleshy, with a broad membranous sheathing base, quite entire. Peduncles stout, much shorter than the leaves. Flowers small, ⅙ in. diam. Calyx almost equalling the corolla; segments linear, fleshy, acute. Corolla divided ⅔-way down; lobes ovate, 3-nerved, margins undulate. Stamens inserted just below the sinus of the
