Manual of the New Zealand Flora (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... jointed hairs, under-surface woolly or almost glabrous. Scapes numerous, erect or inclined, at first much shorter than the leaves, but elongating as the fruit ripens, stout, densely tomentose. Spike short, 1-5-flowered; flowers small, crowded. Bracts and calyx-seginents broadly ovate, subacute, glabrous, keel dark, thick and fleshy. Corolla-tube equalling the calyx; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute. Capsule exceeding the calyx, broadly oblong, obtuse, 2-celled. Seeds 6 or 7 in each cell. Var. Petriei.--Larger; leaves often 2 in. long, thinner, upper surface sparingly pilose with jointed hairs, glabrous or nearly so beneath, margins ciliate. Scapes longer, usually exceeding the leaves. Perhaps a distinct species. South Island: Nelson--Mountains above the Clarence Valley, T. F. C. Canterbury--Armstrong. Otago--Lake district, Hector and Buchanan I Old Man Range, Hector Mountains, Mount Pisa, Mount Cardrona, Petrie 40006000ft. Var. Petriei: Mount Kyeburn, alt. 3500ft., Petrie The ordinary state of the species is easily recognised by the copious matted jointed hairs on the leaves, short densely tomentose scapes, and oblong obtuse many-seeded oapsule. 6. P. triandra, Berggr. in Minneskr. Fisiog. Sallsk. Lund. (1877) 16, t. 4, f. 12-33.--Eootstock short, stout, crown densely clothed with long red-brown silky wool, rarely almost glabrous. Leaves numerous, all radical, spreading, forming flat rosettes 1-3 in. across, i-2in. long, linear or lanceolate, acute, narrowed into broad flat petioles, entire or more usually sinuate-dentate or pinnatifid, rather thick or almost membranous, more or less pubescent with jointed hairs on the upper surface, the hairs sometimes arranged in transverse bands across the leaf, under-surface usually glabrous. Scapes very short in the fl...