A very pretty perennial plant, native of the country near 
Port Jackson, whence it was many years since introduced 
to our gardens. It is seldom cultivated, and yet its grace- 
ful racemes of pale blue flowers are exceedingly beautiful. 
It is a little tender, and will not bear our ordinary winters 
unprotected, but it may easily be kept with a very moderate 
degree of care. | 
The drawing was made last July, from plants growing in 
the open ground in the fine collection of handsome hardy 
plants in the Nursery of the Messrs. Rollissons of Tooting. 
No genus is more extensively distributed in the old 
world than Veronica; but the principal part of the species, 
known in Europe, consist either of weedy plants, or of 
species not particularly striking for their beauty; it is in the 
southern hemisphere, in New Holland, Van Diemen's Land, 
and New Zealand, that the most interesting kinds are to be 
found. V. diosmifolia, salicifolia, and catarracte, all as yet 
unknown in Europe in a living state, yield in beauty to very 
few plants of the same countries. 
