Tab. 6390. 

 VERONICA Traversii. 



Native of New Zealand. 



Nat. Ord. Scbophulariaceje.— Tribe Digitals^. 

 Genus Veronica, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. W4.) 



Veronica (Hebe) Twn&j frutes parvus, glaber, confertim ramosus « fobis 

 app^SS unnWbus decussak patentibus ***™£^*^ 

 ovatis-lanceolatisve subacute integemmis supra canabcu ah * « s 

 carinatis crasse coriaceis enervii, uracemis ^^nnuiahbu ^^^^ 

 latis gracilibus breviuscubs densiflons, raebi pe dicelb ^ e ^ibuspu beruiis 

 bractds sepalisque oblongis obtusis cikola is ^^.f^-f b fia 3 

 plus minusve superante, lobis subaquahbus late oblongis obtusis, hiamentis 

 robustis, capsula late ellipsoidea compressa glabra. 



V. Traversii, Hook. f. Handbook of New Zealand Flora, p. 208; Matters in 

 Oard. Chron, 1873, p. 1046. 



This little shrub is a member of %^**™J?££ 

 Veronicas allied to the V. eUiptu:a, Vorst. frMft** 

 are exceedingly difficult of discrimination, inhabit the Alps 

 Seflyof rSddlelslandof New Zealand, andare smgukr y 



protean in habit, foliage, and f^f^.^SdeS 

 his work on the Vegetation of the Chatham P lants has indeed 

 referred some fifteen of these to one species (to which he ha 

 applied the uew name of V. Forsten), ™XT\ZtiZ' 

 likely to find favour with the New ^4/°™^ 

 singularly enough he has not included under this aggrega to 

 species the V. Traversii, which is one of the common^ .* 

 them, and one of the most difficult to distinguish m ^ states^ 

 Whatever its specific value, there can be no doubt ot its 

 horticultural interest, for there is not a *™ *"££ ^ 

 of the kind, than a well-grown plant of I . T>*. «^> ™£_ 

 forms a symmetrical ball three to four feet ^meter, <= om 

 pletely powdered with white «*«»■ Wand of 



V. Traversii is a native of the Alps ot me m , 



New Zealand, from Nelson to Otago, by margins of streams, 



OCTOBER 1ST, 1878. 



