who sent the seeds under the name we have preserved, as a 

 native of New Zealand, where it has been found in the Middle 

 Island we believe only, on the Wairu Mountains, alt. 1500- 

 2000 feet, by Mr. Travers at Macrae's Run, halfway up, in 

 rocky places by Dr. Munro, and by the late lamented Dr. Sin- 

 clair in the Kaikoras Mountains. It first flowered with us in 

 May, 1864, in a cool greenhouse, but from its elevation in the 

 Middle Island of New Zealand, it ought to prove quite hardy 

 in our climate. It is one of the many additions made to the 

 genus Veronica since the enumeration of the one hundred and 

 fifty-eight species in De Candolle's ' Prodromus,' by Mr. Ben- 

 tham, and it is one of the forty species described by Dr. 

 Hooker in his recently published ' Handbook of the New Zea- 

 land Flora.' Both the genus and the species of Veronica are 

 very difficult of clear definition. Some admirable remarks on 

 the former (the genus) we have given above, following the Gen. 

 Char. ; and Dr. Hooker observes, of the Ncio Zealand species, 

 that " they form a more conspicuous feature of the vegetation 

 than in any other country, both from their number, beauty, and 

 ubiquity, from so many forming large bushes, and from the re- 

 markable forms the genus presents." 



Fig. 1. Front view of a flower. 2. Side view of ditto -.—magnified. 



