Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (1871) (14576897927)

Identifier: transactionsofro71roya (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Royal Society of New Zealand
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Wellington, N.Z. : The Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives



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J£. cUl.e-t liih. Rostkouia ucruoe Zclo^iioj Muck email, nj.sp. Buchanan.—On some New Species of Plants: 227 branous. Florets numerous, those of the ray J inch long, straight or spreading,revolute in old flowers ; disc flat, deeply pitted ; achene silky. Collected by H. H. Travers, on the mountains near Lake Guyon, Kelson,March, 1871. Plate XV.—Fig. 1. Plant natural size. 2. Head newly opened. 3. Floretof the disc. 4. Floret of the ray. 5. Arms of style. 6. Gland of style.7. Stamen. 8. Pappus. 9. Outer involucral scale. 10. Inner involucralscale. All magnified. Rostkovia Nova*, Zelandice, Buchanan, n. sp. Culms rising from a creeping rhizome, tufted, rigid, very narrow, 6—8 incheslong, terete, finely grooved. Leaves numerous, rigid, very narrow, shining,plano-convex, terete near the top and pungent, each culm sheathed by threeleaves to above the middle ; leaves J longer than the culms, enveloped belowby 3 blunt apiculate sheaths. Flowers solitary, terminal, ; inch long, 1bracte