Tab. 7210. 

 VERONICA Lavaudiana. 



Native of New Zealand. 



Nat. Ord. ScROPHtTLAHiNE^E. Tribe Digitale,*:. 1 

 Genus Vebonica, Linn.; (Benth. et Hooh.f. Gen. Plant., vol. ii. p. 964.) 



Yeronica (Hebe) Lavaudiana ; fruticulus ramosus foliosus, ramulis crassius- 

 culis foliisque glaberrimis, foliis parvis patulis spathulato- v. obovato- 

 rotundatis coriaceis breviter crasse petiolatis crenatis viridibus margi- 

 nibus sanguineis, floribus albis in corymbos terminates amplos densi- 

 floros crasse pedunculatos dispositis sessilibus, bracteis ovatia obtusis 

 sepalisque requilongis glanduloso-pilosis tubo corolla? paullo brevioribus, 

 corolla? lobis tubo subasquilongis patenti-recurvis, postico majore orbi- 

 culato, lateralibus oblongis obtusis, antico ovato obtuso, hlamentis 

 brevibus, antheris majusculis vix exsertis, ovario obcordato glaberrimo, 

 stylo gracili longe exserto, stigmate capitellato, capsula minuta oblongo- 

 ovoidea obtusa calycem subaequante. 



V. Lavaudiana, Baoul Choix des Plantes de la Nouv. Zel. p. 16, t. 10; JTook. 

 f. Fl. New Zealand, vol. i. p. 195; Handbook of the New Zealand Flora, 

 p. 214; Gard. Chron. 1891, i. 934, f. 154. 



The numerous New Zealand Veronicas are being rapidly 

 introduced into this country, chiefly through the agency of 

 Mr. Armstrong, of the Botanical Gardens, Christ Church, 

 Canterbury, and are destined to hold a prominent position 

 in the Rock Gardens of amateurs. As is well known, the 

 genus is the prominent botanical feature of the under- 

 shrubbery of the New Zealand Archipelago, from the 

 Northern Cape to the Antarctic Islands ; and it is a very 

 singular fact that the most arboreous member of the whole 

 genus, V. elliptica, Forst. (V. decussata Ait. Tab. 242), 

 which attains twenty feet in height, is the most southern 

 of all, extending from Otago to Campbell's Island, in Lat. 

 52£ south, and in Tierra del Fuego to nearly 56° south. 



In the " Handbook of the New Zealand Flora," published 

 (the first part) in 1864, I described forty species, all 

 peculiar to the group except the aforesaid V. elliptica, and 

 the common British V. Anagallis, which inhabits many 

 parts of the world. That number has been brought up to 

 sixty by Mr. J. B. Armstrong, who has published a tabular 

 resume of the species in the Transactions of the New Zea- 

 Dxcbxbeb 1st, 1891. 



