late, very much attenuated, glabrous, the margins sharply 
and unequally serrated ; the colour full green above, paler 
beneath, indistinctly nerved. Peduncles axillary, opposite, 
longer than the leaves, bearing a raceme of rather large, 
white, fragrant flowers. Bracteas subulate, about as long 
as the pedicels. Calyx small, four-partite, segments lan- 
ceolate, acute, two of them a little smaller. Corolla rotate, 
formed of two spreading lips: the upper of one ovate seg- 
ment; the lower of three of the same form, but of which 
the middle one is the smallest. Stamens two: filaments 
white: anthers purplish. Germen ovate, two-celled. Style 
 deautiful Speedwell ; judging, as we do, from t 
= filiform, declined. 
Fig.1. Flower. 2 Young Fruit with the Calyx :—magnified. 
For the information of our readers, we take the opportunity of occ 
pying a spare page, with brief descriptive characters of three unpub- 
lished species of the Genus of our present subject, recently discovered 
in New Zealand by Mr. Ricuarp Cunnincuam, ; 
V. speciosa (R. Cunn. MSS.) ; glaberrima, racemis terminalibus bre- 
vibus erectis confertifloris, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis pedicello di- 
midio brevioribus, laciniis calycis ovatis acutiusculis tenuissimé 
ciliatis dimidium tubi corolla subequantibus, foliis (oppositis) 
planis obovatis coriaceis decurrentibus, apiculo calloso obtuso, 
marginibus integerrimis incrassatis coloratis, caule fruticoso erec- 
_ tiusculo v. diffuso. 
Napuka ab Indigenis vulg6 vocatur. 
Has. In Nove Zelandie insula septentrionali: in collibus arenosis 
juxta estuarium fluvii Hokianga, ad oram occidentalem, ubi in 
mense Decembri lauté floret. 1833. Rich, Cunningham. 
_ Frutex spectabilis 3-6 pedalis, caulibus pluribus robustis adscenden- 
tibus, et in loco natali valdé insignis. Folia 3-4 pollicaria. 
Flores speciosi cyaneo-violacei, feré facie Lysimachie atropur- 
puree, Stamina exserta pistillum equantia. Capsula biparti~ 
bilis, elliptica, acuminata, glabra, calyce duplo longior. 
Oss. Of all the plants of New Zealand, with 
either as attached to voyages of disc 
ready fully established in our gardens—than this very remarkable and 
have received, and from the description given 
_ by its discoverer, Since the country around its locality, at the mouth 
has 
