Ourisia caespitosa var. gracilis Hook.f.
Original localities: "Kowai river and Mt. Torlesse, alt. 4000 ft., Haast; Otago, Lake district and Maranoa river, Hector and Buchanan." Type: K, "alpine lake district, wet places, Hector and Buchanan, 1864-5".
Lvs up to 6 × 3 mm., most or all oval to spathulate-oblong and entire, creeping stem us. with some retrorse hairs. Bracts narrow, entire. Fls often solitary, sts one above the other, rarely two from any one pair of bracts. Calyx-lobes us. narrowed towards top. Corolla c. 1·5 cm. diam., lobes narrow.
DIST.: S. Mountains of Canterbury and Otago.
FL. 10-12. FT. 12-3.
The type and only known specimen of Euphrasia hectori Petrie (W 5368, "Haast R. valley, Westland, Major R. A. Wilson, Novr. 1923") is a short length of rather laxly-lvd stem with one infl. with two complete fls and two lacking corollas. It is undoubtedly a Ourisia and is well matched vegetatively by a much larger fruiting specimen of O. caespitosa (BD 87819) collected by Poppelwell at Haast Creek.
