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330 NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND.
roofed with Tree-fern stems and leaves, or with " Totara" bark, wood,
or shingle, are now to be seen in the vicinity of European settlements.
"Raupo" is sometimes associated with " Maori Heads"* {Carex vir-
gata, var. secta), as one of the landmarks of the dangerous swamps of
the interior, which have been described by Sullivan and other explorers
(e. g. in the Matukituki district, about Lake Wanaka).
Genus IX. Libertia.
1, i. grandiflora, Sweet, (i. ixioides, var. mncrocarjpa, Fl. N. Z.).
Church Hill, Dunedin ; Greeuisland coast-cliffs ; sand-dunes about
mouth of the Kaikorai ; ranges between Kaikorai Hill and the Taeri
Plains ; November, in flower, W. L. L. In its panicle and flower-
stem the plant somewhat resembles our AUsma Plantago, L., a genus,
and belonging to an Order, not represented in New Zealand. The
capsule, stem, and leaves are the seat of a very minute, black, puncti-
forra, parasitic SphcBria. riower-stem is 10-15 in. long. Leaf some-
times 3 ft. long, and \-\ in. broad ; linear and grass-like, but rigid
and coriaceous. I suspect L. grandiflora is properly but a form of
L. ixioides—which is the " Turutu" of the South Island Maori (Lyall),
a terai also applied to Dianella intermedia, Endl. (N. 0. Liliacecs)—
having larger flower and fruit. The size of the latter is, however, an
inconstant character, and an unsafe basis, therefore, per se, for classi-
fication.
What appears to be my Otago plant (white-flowered) has stood
well, in open ground, several winters (1865-66-67) at Trinity, near
Edinburgh; as yet, however, flowering sparingly (Gorrie and Anderson-
Henry).
Genus X. Drosera.
1. D. binata, Lab. Swamps, Abbott's Creek, Chain Hills; Decem-
ber, in flower, W. L. L. Leaf-petioles 2 in. long, or under. Leaf-
lobes simple, with a tendency to fibrillose division at tips, \\ in. long,
and -p_ in. broad. Glandular hairs of leaf mostly fringe its margins ;
they are filiform and very long, sometimes \ in. in length. Scape
5 in. high. Cyme 5-6-flowered. Sepals glabrous. AU parts of
flower dry to a deep black.
Genus XI. Salicounia.
1. S. J«6?ica, Willd. Sand-dunes on the Greenisland coast; No-
* Vide author's Paper on " Otago Glumacese," Trans. Botanical Society of
Edinb., vol. ix. p. 74.