cultivated specimens that I have seen they are pure white. 
It appears to be a very rare plant, a native of the Southern 
Island, and the only native specimens in Kew Herbarium, 
were sent to Kew by ‘hos. Kirk, Esq., F.L.S., of Wel- 
lington. Mr. Armstrong gives as habitats the Rangitata 
Valley, where he collected it himself, and the Clyde 
Valley, alt. 5-6000 ft., Mr. W. Gray. 
The specimen figured flowered in the Rockery of the Royal 
Gardens, in June, 1893, and the same plant has been 
received from the Royal Gardens of Edinburgh, under the 
name of V. epacridea. 
Descr.—A dwarf shrub, six to twelve inches high, with 
many slender, terete, erect branches from a decumbent 
base. Stems hardly as thick as a crow-quill, branched 
above, naked, but annulate with scars below, leafy above, 
as are the branches. Leaves quadrifarious, in opposite, 
rather close-set pairs, about one-sixth of an inch long, 
erecto-patent, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, coriaceous, 
keeled, dull green, shining. Flowers sessile, small, in sub- 
terminal opposite, corymbiform spikes ; peduncle one half 
to two-thirds of an inch long, sparsely hairy ; bracts 
lanceolate, shorter than the calyx. Calyx segments erect; 
linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, margins ciliolate. Corolla 
one-fourth to nearly one-third of an inch in diam., white; 
tube not longer than the calyx; posticous and lateral lobes 
orbicular-ovate, posticous rather the largest ; anticous 
much the smallest, ovate. Filaments about as long as 
the corolla lobes; anthers oblong, erect, pale, Ovary 
glabrous, style slender.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, portion of s 
ike ; : thers; 
6, ovary :—Al/ enlarged. pike; 8, calyx and style; 4 and 5, an 
