long; peduncles slender, exceeding the leaves, sometimes ⅓ in. long. Calyx 4-lobed to about ⅓-way down; lobes flat, erect, acute. Corolla-tube slender, curved, more than twice as long as the calyx; upper lip short, broad, shortly 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed. Anthers glabrous or nearly so. Ovary pubescent; ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous. Ripe capsules not seen.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 221; Wettst. Monog. Euphr. 253.
South Island: Otago—Bluff Island, Lyall; mouth of the Oreti River, Kirk!
A very remarkable little plant, distinguished from the preceding by the creeping and rooting habit, smaller remote 3-lobed leaves, longer and narrower flowers on longer peduncles, and shorter calyx-lobes.
10. ANAGOSPERMA, Wettst.
A small creeping intricately branched herb. Leaves opposite, entire or 3-lobed. Flowers solitary and axillary, erect, shortly peduncled. Calyx oblong-campanulate, 5-lobed to the middle; lobes equal, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla-tube excessively long and slender, 1–2 in. long, narrow at the base, gradually expanded above; limb short, 2-lipped; upper lip erect, obcordate, shortly 2-lobed; lower lip rather shorter, spreading or deflexed, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous; anthers large, almost as long as the lower lip of the corolla, mucronate at the base. Ovary small, broadly ovoid, 2-celled; ovules solitary, pendulous from the top of the cell. Style slender; stigma circinately incurved. Capsule broadly obcuneate, much broader than long, loculicidally dehiscent, compressed. Seeds one in each cell, large, oblong, pendulous.
A very remarkable monotypic genus, confined to New Zealand. It is closely allied to Euphrasia, but differs in the extraordinary length of the corolla-tube, in the solitary ovules, and in the broad obcuneate capsule.
1. A. dispermum, Wettst. in Deutsch. Bot. Ges. xiii (1895) 242.—Stems very slender, weak, procumbent and matted, 2–4 in. long, sparsely glandular-pubescent. Leaves in rather remote pairs, sessile or nearly so, ⅙–¼ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed to the base, entire or deeply 3-lobed, 3-nerved, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. Flowers on short curved peduncles, erect. Corolla about ½–¾ in. long when first expanded, but elongating as the flowering advances and often becoming 2 in. long, very many times longer than the small calyx. Capsule 110–18 in. long, very much broader than long.—Euphrasia longiflora, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xi. (1879) 440, not of Vahl. E. (Anagosperma) disperma, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. t. 1283; Kirk, l.c. xii. (1880) 396, t. 14.
South Island: Nelson—Mount Rochfort and other mountains near Westport, Rev. F. H. Spencer! Dr. Gaze! W. Townson! Westland—Paparoa Range, R. Helms! Ahaura Plain, Lake Brunner, Teremakau Paddock, Kirk! Okarito, A. Hamilton! 250–3500 ft. January–March.
