tantly and sometimes obscurely serrate, usually 3-nerved. Flowers in the axils of the leaves; peduncles very short, sometimes almost wanting. Calyx-segments lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla ⅓–½ in. long, white or yellowish-white with a yellow throat, the lips broad, much shorter than the tube. Anthers connivent; cells transverse, parallel. Staminodia filiform, elongated. Capsule ovoid-globose, ⅕ in. long, membranous.—Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 493. G. sexdentata, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 383; Raoul, Choix, 43; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 189; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 203. G. latifolia, R. Br. Prodr. 435; Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. iii. (1871) 165. G. glandulifera, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii. (1885) 245.
North Island: Common in lowland swamps throughout. South Island: Nelson—Buller Valley; Charleston, Townson! Otago—Lake Te Anau, Petrie. Sea-level to 1500 ft. November–February.
Also common in Australia and Tasmania, and in many parts of extra-tropical South America.
2. G. nana, Benth. in D.C. Prodr. x. 404.—Stems procumbent or creeping, much branched, often matted, 2–8 in. long, usually more or less clothed with jointed glandular hairs, but sometimes almost glabrous; branches ascending at the tips. Leaves sessile or very shortly petiolate, ⅙–¼ in. long, broad or narrow-oblong or obovate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed at the base, obtusely toothed, glabrous or glandular-pilose. Flowers few, on short peduncles. Calyx glandular-pilose; segments often toothed. Corolla ¼–⅓ in. long, white or white with pinkish veins, throat yellow; lobes short, rounded. Anthers connivent; cells transverse, parallel. Staminodia filiform, elongated. Capsule broadly ovoid.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 203; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 493. G. pubescens, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 189 (not of R. Br.). G. concinna, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 264.
North Island: Auckland—Bay of Islands, R. Cunningham (Handbook); swamps between the Manukau Harbour and Waikato River, Carse! Hawke's Bay—Norsewood, Colenso! Taranaki—Ngaire Swamp, Kirk! South Island: From Nelson to Southland, but not common. Sea-level to 2500 ft. November–February.
Apparently a variable little plant. South Island specimens are stouter and more densely leafy, and have larger flowers than those from the North Island. Also found in Victoria and Tasmania.
5. GLOSSOSTIGMA, Arn.
Very small perfectly glabrous creeping and rooting herbs. Leaves opposite or fascicled at the nodes, quite entire. Flowers minute, axillary, solitary, ebracteolate. Calyx campanulate, shortly and obtusely 3–4-lobed. Corolla-tube short; lobes 5, nearly equal. Stamens 2 or 4, affixed to the corolla-tube; filaments filiform; anther-cells diverging at the base, confluent at the top. Ovary perfectly or imperfectly 2-celled; style short, dilated upwards into
