Vermischte neue Diagnosen. 401 
Capsula ovata, acuta 4,2 mm longa. — New Zealand: North Island: 
Auckland—The Poor Knights Islands, L. C. Blooms in cultivation in the 
neighbourhood of Christchurch in April and later, but the same autumn- 
blooming plant may flower again in the succeeding summer. — In Trans. 
N. Z. Inst, vol. 38, p. 354, I referred, but with some measure of doubt, 
this plant to V. macroura Hook. f, for my material, with only frag- 
mentary racemes many months old, was insufficient for accurate deter- 
mination. Since that time, plants that I raised from cuttings have 
bloomed both in the garden of Mr. Lough, Linwood, and at Canterbury 
College, and have proved that the plant is a species quite distinct from 
any other in New Zealand. It is at once separated from V. macroura 
Hook. f. by the erect habit, glossy somewhat dark-green glabrous leaves 
with a subapiculate apex, much larger flowers which are not crowded 
very closely, glabrous calyx except for scanty cilia on the margin almost 
equalling the corolla-tube, and ovate obtuse or subacute corolla-segments 
4 mm long as opposed to the oblong ones 2 mm long rounded at the 
apex of V. macroura. The season of flowering is altogether different. 
Whether V. Bollonsii is identical with the Whangarei plant found by 
Colenso and referred by Hooker to V. macroura I do not know. This 
latter species. in my estimation, is found only in the East Cape district, 
the var. dubia Cheesem. being à good species as well as the unnamed 
plant growing in the neighbourhood of Wellington, and which I followed 
Hooker in referring to V. macroura, but considered distinct enough to 
warrant a varietal name (Trans. N. Z. Inst., vol. 39, p. 361). I also 
consider V. Cookiana Colenso a distinct from V. macroura. 
972. Veronica Dorrien-Smithii Cock., 1l. c., p. 51. — Frutex parvus 
paulo ramosus, ramulis + incano-pubescentibus. Folia sessilia, oblonga, 
elliptico-oblonga vel elliptico-lanceolata, circ. 5—6 cm longa, supra glabra, 
Subtus ad costam pubescentia. Racemi folia aequantes vel paulo su- 
perantes, minute pubescentes. Calyx brevis, profunde 4-partitus, 1,9 mm 
longus; lobi late ovati, acuti vel apiculati, ciliati. Corollae tubus 2,5— 
2,8 mm longus, fauce pubescens; lobi obovati, 2,8 mm longi. Ovarium 
glabrum; stylus vix exsertus. Capsula late ovata, 4 mm longa, calycem 
duplo excedens. -- New Zealand: Chatham Island: Growing on 
peaty ground at margin of Lake Tekua Taupo, at an altitude of 240 m. 
Herb. Cockayne no. 8003. Flowers in December and January; Seed ripe 
in February and March. — V. Dorrien-Smithii is allied to V. Dieffenbachu 
Benth, but is a much smaller plant, and though the branches are 
straggling they are not widely divaricating. It differs also in the hoary 
pubescent more slender stems, broader light green not whitish-green 
leaves, the very small bracteoles and much shorter racemes. It is a 
Variable plant, but it does not seem to pass into V. Dieffenbachi. The 
Stems may be conspicuously hoary or almost glabrous. In one example 
the leaves measure 9 cm long by 3,2 cm broad, in another they are 
5 em long and 2,8 em broad with internodes 2,5 cm long. The flowers 
are sometimes lavender at first, then fading to white, or they may be 
