Tas. 7296. 
VERONICA Cotesnso). 
Native of New Zealand. 
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Nat. Ord. ScropHuLtartnr%.—Tribe D1GITaLE%. 
Genus Veronica, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p- 964.) 
Veronica (Hebe) Colensoi; fructiculus ramosissimus glaberrimus, foliis 
approximatis decussatim oppositis subsessilibus patentibus lineari 
oblongis obtusiusculis integerrimis v. rarissime pauci-serratis coriaceis 
ecarinatis viridibus, racemis ad apices ramulorum subfastigiatis breviter 
pedunculatis foliis sabduplo longioribus rachi puberula, floribus subsessili- 
bus, sepalis ovato-oblongis, corolla alba v. pallide lilacina tubo brevi. 
capsula ovoidea calyce duplo longiore. 
V. Colensoi, Hook. f. Handb. N. Zeald. Flora, p. 209; Armstrong in Trans. 
N. Zeald. Institute, vol. xiii. (1880) p. 351. 
Under V. Lavaudiana (Plate 7210) I have given a brief 
account of the genus Veronica, as represented in New 
Zealand, together with some very interesting remarks on 
it by Mr. Armstrong, published in the Transactions of 
the New Zealand Institute, where no fewer than sixty 
Species are enumerated as natives of the Archipelago. 
The majority of these belong to the section “ Hebe,” 
which, with the exception of a species common to Antarctic 
America and New Zealand, are all natives of Australasia, 
and especially of New Zealand itself. The species are, 
many of them, very variable in foliage, and hence difficult 
of discrimination in a dried state, especially those with 
small coriaceous leaves, as V. pinguifolia (tab. 6147), 
V. carnosula (tab. 6581), V. parviflora (tab. 5965), and 
V. Traversii (tab. 6390), all of which have closely allied 
congeners. Of these V. Traversii is the nearest in affinity 
to V. Colensoi, but is well distinguished by its more acute 
closer set keeled dark green leaves, and also by the 
longer pedicelled flowers, as shown in fig. 5 of the accom- 
panying plate, though this is far from a consistent character, 
May Isr, 1893. 
