Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Near the top of McRae's run, say 4,000 ft. above the sea." Type: K, "Monro No. 25, Xmas 1853."

Stock woody; stems woody at base, creeping, rooting at nodes, stout, ±fleshy in apical region, 5-15 cm. long; branches densely lfy, ascending at tips, glab. Lvs opp., crowded, on broad petioles up to ± 15 mm. long. Lamina obovate- to spathulate-oblong, (20)-30-35-(40) × 9-14 mm., coriac., thick and fleshy, glab.; margins ± thickened, sub-entire to remotely, obscurely denticulate. Fls 8-10 mm. diam.; calyx about half length petals, lobes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate; petals rose or white, ± 9 mm. long, bifid to ⅓ way to base. Capsules glab., rather stout, 35-50-(60) mm. long; peduncles rather stout, 40-60 mm. long, rigid. Seeds minutely papillose.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine rocky places, herbfield and screes from lat. 41° to 45°.

FL.- FT. 11-2.

The type sheet holds 4 pieces, one in fl., the others with immature capsules. The stems and branches us. die at the base and the plant progresses to another spot, in cultivation at least becoming distant from the original point.