late. Racemes slender, many-flowered, naked. Flowers rather large, ⅓ in. long or more, bright sulphur-yellow; pedicels very short. Calyx small, about ⅓ the length of the corolla, clothed with appressed silky hairs; lobes linear, acute. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped or almost campanulate, tube short, broad above, with 5 scales in the throat; limb large, with rounded lobes. Stamens included, the tips of the anthers reaching the corolla-scales. Style long, almost equalling the corolla. Nutlets ovoid, pale greyish-brown.
South Island: Otago—Hills near Cromwell, Clutha River, Hector and Buchanan! Petrie! 800–1500 ft.
A curious and distinct species, only known from one locality, where it is fast becoming exceedingly rare.
13. M. Goyeni, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxiii. (1891) 400.—Perennial; everywhere clothed with short rigid appressed white hairs, giving the whole plant a greyish appearance. Rootstock stout, woody; flowering stems one or several, decumbent at the base, ascending or erect at the tips, slender, branched, 4–10 in. long. Radical leaves numerous, tufted, 1½–3 in. long, ¼–⅓ in. broad, linear-spathulate, acute, gradually narrowed into a slender petiole much longer than the blade, coriaceous, uniformly hispid on both surfaces; cauline smaller and on shorter petioles, the upper sessile. Racemes slender, naked, many-flowered. Flowers large, ½–¾ in. long, pale-yellow or white with a yellow centre, almost sessile or on very short pedicels. Calyx small, ⅓ as long as the corolla, deeply 5-lobed; lobes linear-subulate, acute. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped; tube short, broad above, with 5 scales at the throat; limb large, with short rounded lobes. Stamens included, the tips of the anthers reaching the corolla-scales. Style slender, ¾ the length of the corolla. Nutlets ovoid, brownish.
South Island: Nelson—Mount Percival, Hanmer, T. F. C. Otago—Arrowtown, Cardrona Valley, Lake Hawea, Petrie! 1000–4000 ft. November–January.
Very near to M. albo-sericea, but a much larger plant, with longer branched stems, greyish (not silvery-white) pubescence, and larger flowers, which are often quite white.
14. M. spathulata, Forst. Prodr. n. 62.—Pilose or hispid in all its parts. Stems usually many from the root, branched, prostrate, ascending at the tips, slender, flaccid, sparingly leafy, 3–16 in. long. Leaves on long or short petioles; blade ⅓–1 in. long, orbicular or broadly ovate or obovate, obtuse or apiculate, membranous, hispidulous on both surfaces; cauline smaller and on shorter petioles. Flowers small, ⅛ in. long, white with a yellow eye, solitary, axillary or springing from the branches below the leaves. Calyx hispid with long straight hairs, cut ¾-way down;
