and lower branches, but under cultivation against a wall 
at Kew it assumes an upright more twiggy habit, in which 
respect it accords with the figure in the “ Botanical 
Register,” made from greenhouse specimens grown at 
South Lambeth. It was introduced into cultivation nearly 
one hundred years ago, namely in 1787, by Mr. Thouin, 
and flowers freely in late autumn (October), when from 
‘the abundance of bloom it forms a very pretty object: it 
is moreover very hardy, the specimen at Kew having sur- 
vived the last hard winter with no other protection but some 
cocoa-nut fibre on the ground around the base of the stem. 
The leaves a good deal resemble those of the New Zealand 
Veronica pinguifolia. 
Descor. A small erect or prostrate woody perfectly 
glabrous shrub; branches erect, leafy. Leaves very small 
and uniform, one-third of an inch long, opposite, sessile, 
ovate, acute, coriaceous, nerveless, keeled at the back, 
concave in front. lowers solitary on the ends of short 
lateral branches, shortly pedicelled; pedicels two-bracteo- 
late. Sepals oblong, obtuse, concave, eglandular. Petals 
obovate-spathulate, subacute, pale golden-yellow, with a 
tubercle on the face above the claw. Stamens in three 
bundles, which alternate with as many two-lobed hypogy- 
nous glands. Carpels three, with very short styles and 
capitate —— —J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, flower cut longitudinally ; 2, bundle of stamens; 3, carpels and hypogy- 
nous glands :—all enlarged, 
