TAB. 4928; 
VERONI CA Fatrrrewpit, 
Native of New Zealand. 
Nat. Ord. ScropnutaRiInex#.—Tribe DiciTaLEe. 
Genus Veronica, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 964.) 
Veronica (Hebe) Fairfieldii; fruticulus pedalis ramosus, caule ramisque 
divaricatis robustis atris, foliis coriaceis petiolatis late ovatis obtusis 
crenato-dentatis glaberimis rubro-purpureo marginatis, floribus in spicis 
paniculatis breviter pedunculatis glanduloso-puberulis dispositis sessilibus 
pallide lilacinis, bracteis calyce brevioribus lineari-oblongis, calycis seg- 
mentis angustis linearibus, corolla pallide lilacine tubo brevissimo lobis 
sub-zqualibus rotundatis, antheris vix exsertis aureis late ovatis, ovario 
piloso. 
V. Fairfieldii, Hort. Martin. 
The affinities of Veronica Fairfieldit are unquestionably 
close with V. Hulkeana (Tab. 5484) and V. Lavaudiana 
(Tab. 7210), both small shrubs of the Hebe section, in 
which the flowers are sessile, the corolla-tube very short, 
its lobes subequal and broad, and the scarcely exserted 
anthers are broadly ovate and yellow, and it is in many 
respects so curiously intermediate between these two 
Species as to suggest a hybrid origin. The short branches, 
and the leaves in size, form, petiolation, crenation, and the 
purple margins, almost precisely accord with those of V. 
Lavaudiana, from which species it differs in the paniculate 
(not at all corymbose) inflorescence, and in the colour of 
the corolla. On the other hand, the inflorescence and 
colour of the corolla are exactly those of V. LMulkeana, 
which is a much larger laxly branched species, with dark 
green concolorous leaves, one and a half to two inches 
long, rounded at the base, and strongly serrate; and with 
very short, almost glabrous, calyx-segments. 
I regret to say that I can give no further account of the 
origin of V. Fairfieldii than that it was received, under 
that name, by my friend Dr. Balfour, from Mr. Martin, of 
NoveMBER lsv, 1893, 
