Tas. 7039. 
VERONICA DIOSMASFOLIA, var. TRISEPALA. 
Native of New Zealand. : 
Nat. Ord. ScropHULARINES.—Tribe Dicitatex. 
Genus Veronica, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. u. p. 964.) 
Veronica (Hebe) diosmefolia; fruticulus erectus subcorymbosim ramosus 
glaberrimus, ramulis et inflorescentia puberulis, ramis gracilibus cicatri- 
catis, cortice fusco-brunneo, foliis subconfertim decussatis patulis coriaceis 
4-1 poll. longis lineari-oblongis acutis integerrimis subcarinatis, racemis 
brevibus apices versus ramulorum corymbosis breviter pedunculatis, 
floribus pedicellatis ad i-poll. latis pallide lilacinis, bracteis parvis 
pedicellis multo brevioribus, calycis parvi coroll# tubo brevioris lobis 
brevibus latis ovato-oblongis obtusis, corollz tubo brevi infundibulari, 
lobis obtusis postico majore late ovato, antico lineari-oblongo, filamentis 
elongatis, antheris apiculatis, stylo gracili deflexo, capsulis 3 poll. longis 
ovoideis calyce multo longioribus glaberrimis. 
V. diosmefolia, R. Gunn. in Bot. Mag. sub +t. 3461 (1836) diosmifolia) 
Benth. in DG. Prodr. vol. x. p. 460. A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. i. 
(1838) p. 459; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. vol.i. p. 193; Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. 
p- 209. Kirk in Trans. N. Zeal. Instit. vol. iii. (1870) p. 168; et vol. 
XXviii. (1895) p. 525. Armstrong l.c, vol. xxii. (1881) p. 351. 
Var. trisepala ; gracilior, foliis ecarinatis, calycis lobis 3 supremo emargi- 
nato. V. trisepala, Colenso in Trans. N. Zeald. Instit. vol. xv. (1882) 
p. 526. V. diosmefolia, var. trisepala, Kirk 1. c. vol. xxviil. p. 525. 
Veronica is now known to be the largest genus by far 
of New Zealand flowering plants. Banks and Solander in 
1769 procured 3 species. Allan Cunningham in 1838 
peeled 10 ; the additions being due to the indefatigable 
abours of himself and brother Richard, during their visit 
to the Bay of Islands, Allan in 1826, and again in 1838, 
and Richard in 1834, collecting in both cases for the 
Sydney Botanical Gardens. My “ Flora Nove Zelandiz ” 
(1853) contains 24, the principal additions being from the 
mountainous interior of the Northern Island, and the 
previously unexplored Middle Island. In my “ Handbook 
of the New Zealand Flora” (1867) there are 40. Mr. 
June Ist, 1897. 
