V. carnosula, another New Zealand species, distinguished by 
its acute glabrous capsule. 
Drscr. A stout erect or subprostrate woody shrub, 
four inches to four feet high; branches closely covered with 
leaf scars, the branchlets pubescent. eaves one-sixth to 
one-half of an inch long, closely imbricate, erecto-patent, 
sessile, very thick and coriaceous, glaucous, obovate-oblong, 
obtuse, quite entire, nerveless,not keeled, midrib very obscure. 
lowers one-third of an inch in diameter, in almost globose 
crowded axillary and subterminal dense-flowered spikes, quite 
sessile, white. Bracts as long as the calyx, convex, oblong, 
obtuse, ciliate, deciduous. Sepals oblong, obtuse, ciliate and 
pubescent. Corolla-tube equalling the calyx, lobes broadly 
ovate with rounded tips, veinless, the lower lobe half the size 
of the others, and more contracted at the base. Filaments not 
exceeding the corolla; anthers blue. Ovary pubescent ; 
capsule obvate-oblong, emarginate, compressed, pubescent, as 
long as, or twice as long as the calyx.— J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Side view of flower ; 2, corolla and stamen ; 3, calyx and capsule : 
—all magnified. 
