Armstrong’s enumeration (in the ‘‘ Transactions of the New 
Zealand Institute,” 1.c. 1881) gives 60. And this by no 
means exhausts. the list of species known to exist in the 
islands, for several have been discovered since the last date, 
and I have drawings of others (species or varieties) that 
have flowered in the Royal Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh, 
from seeds of indigenous plants, which I am unable to 
identify with any described ones. 
Veronica diosmexfolia was discovered at the Bay of 
Islands by Richard Cunningham in 1834, where it occurs 
as far south as Tekawaki, and it has since been found at 
Nelson by Bidwell, and at Canterbury by Sinclair and 
Haast. It was described by its discoverer as having white 
flowers, whereas those of the specimen here figured are 
pale lilac. Mr. Kirk, F.L.S. (of Wellington, N.Z., now 
happily engaged on a Flora of New Zealand), to whom I 
submitted the drawing, informs me that he regards it as 
“a variety of diosmexfolia with the inflorescence mostly 
reduced to short, simple racemes which are further re- 
moved from the apex of the branches than usual; with 
calyx-segments rather broad, and leaves less acute than 
in the type.” It is identical with specimens of V. trisepala, 
Colenso, which Mr. Kirk has referred to V. diosmexfolia as 
var. trisepala. 
The specimen here figured is from the Royal Botanical 
Gardens of Edinburgh, where it flowered in June, 1893. 
Descr.—A dwarf, erect, much corymbosely branched 
evergreen bush; branches covered with very dark brown 
bark. Leaves one half to one inch long, in rather crowded 
pairs, linear-oblong, acute, quite entire, nerveless, bright 
green above, pale and keeled by the midrib beneath ; 
petiole very short. lowers towards the end of the 
branches, in short subcorymbosely disposed minutel y pube- 
rulous peduncled racemes an inch long; bracts mninute, 
much shorter than the pedicels. Calyx minutely puberu- 
lous, rather shorter than the corolla-tube, deeply 4-lobed; 
lobes oblong, obtuse, two sometimes connate (var. trisepala). 
Corolla white or pale lavender blue; tube shortly funnel- 
shaped ; limb one-fourth to one-third inch across; lobes 
unequal, obtuse, posticous largest broadly ovate, lateral 
ovate, anticous much smaller, oblong, or linear-oblong. 
Filaments as long as the corolla-lobes; anthers pale, 
