Tab. 7348. 

 VERONICA cupeessoides. 



Native of New Zealand. 



Nat. Ord. Scrophuxarine.e. — Tribe Digitale.e. 

 Genus Veronica, Linn.; {Senth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 964.) 



Veronica (Hebe) cupressoides ; fructiculus ramosissimus, ramis cylindraceis 

 cortice atro, ramulis pseud-articulatis viridibus foliisque decussatim 

 oppositis minutissime hirtellis, foliis minutis lepidifbrmibus paribus 

 remotis ramulis appressis crasse coriaceis ovatis obtusis minute ciliolatis, 

 floribua parvis in capitula pauciflora terminalia aggregatis sessilibus, 

 bracteis foliis consimilibus sed dnplo majoribus, calyce subcampanulato 

 cylindraceo breviter inequaliter 4-lobo, lobis obtusis ciliolatis, corollas 

 violaceae tubo brevi lobis obovato-oblongis obtusis antico multo minore 

 lineari-oblonern, filamentis elongatis, antberis magnis rubro-fuscis, ovario 

 glaberrimo 4-lobo. 



V. cupressoides, Hook. f. Handh. N. Zeal. Ft. 212. T. Kirk in Trans. 

 N. Zeald. Inst. vol. xi. (1878), p. 464. Armstr. vol. xiii. (1830), p. 351. 

 N.E. Br. in Gard. Ghron. (18S8), vol. i. p. 2 J, f. 4-7 (Excl. F.). 



In pursuance of my intention of illustrating, as far 

 as I can, all the hardy New Zealand Speedwells in 

 this magazine, a figure is here given of one of the 

 most curious of the group, and at the same time one 

 of the most polymorphous. As stated under V. h/copo- 

 dioides (Tab. 7338), its heteromorphism (first observed by 

 Mr. Kirk) is the subject of a valuable notice by Mr. N. E. 

 Brown in the Gardener's Chronicle cited above, who has 

 described and figured the abnormal state with dilated flat 

 entire lobed or pinnatifid leaves, as occurring under cultiva- 

 tion in Europe. 



V. cupressoides is a native of the mountainous districts 

 of the Upper Wairau Valley, in the Middle Island of New 

 Zealand, where it was discovered by the late Dr. Sinclair, 

 at an elevation of 4000 ft. ; and on Mt. Tarndale in the 

 Canterbury Alps. It has subsequently been collected in 

 the Wai-au-na Ashburton Valleys by the late Sir J. Haast, 

 Mr. Travers and others; and much further south, on river 

 flats of the Otago district, by Sir James Hector. It has 

 been successfully cultivated for some years in England and 

 Scotland, and specimens have been received at Kew from 



April 1st, 1894. 



