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Veronica speciosa. Showy-flowered 

 Speedwell. 



Class and Order. 



* DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



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( Na*t{")Ord. SCROPHULARINvE. ) 



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 Generic Character. 



Calyx 4-partitus, rard 3-partitus. Corolla subrotata. Tu- 

 bus calyce brevior. Limbus 4-partitus, inaequalis, lobis 

 mdiyisis. Stamina 2 antherifera, sterilia, nulla. Capsula 

 valyis medio septiferis, v. bipartibilis.— Herbae vel frutices. 

 Folia opposita, quandoque verticillata vel alterna, scepe den- 

 tata velincisa. Inflorescentia varia. Calyces ebracteati. Br. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Veronica speciosa ; fruticosa glaberrima, foliis carnosis obo- 

 vatis fere retusis cum mu crone calloso integerrimis 

 subsessilibus, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis folio lon- 

 gioribus, floribus densissime, racemoso-spicatis, pedi- 

 cel lis longitudine calycis bracteis ovato-lanceolatis 

 pedicello dimidio brevioribus, segmentis calycinis ova- 

 to-lanceolatis inasqualibus, corolla subrotata bilabiata, 

 labio superiore ovato inferiore tripartito lobo inter- 

 medio minore. 



Veronica speciosa. Rich. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. sub Tab. 

 3461 . Ann. of Nat. Hist. v. 1. p. 4b7. 



It is with no small pleasure I here give a figure of this 

 most beautiful Veronica, takeu from a fine flowering speci- 

 men at Mr. Knight's Exotic Nursery, Fulham. The spe- 

 cies was first described by Mr. Allan Cunningham in the 

 Botanical Magazine, K. c and he then took occasion to 

 remark, " Of all the plants of New Zealand, with which 



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