Tas. 4512. 
VERONICA Formosa. 
Handsome Speedwell. 
Nat. Ord. ScROPHULARIACEH.—DIANDRIA MonoeynIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 4—5-partitus, rarissime 3-partitus. Corolle tubus nunc 
brevissimus nunc calycem superans ; limbus 4-fidus, rarius 5-fidus, patens, /aciniis 
lateralibus vel ima e lateralibus exterioribus sepius angustioribus. Stamina 
2, tubo inserta, exserta, ad latera lacinise superioris sita. Antherarum loculi 
divergentes vel paralleli, apice confluentes. Stylus apice integer, subcapitato- 
stigmatosus.  Capsula compressa vel turgida, bisulcata, carpellis dorso plus 
minus loculicide dehiscentibus, marginibus inflexis, column placentiferee adhe- 
rentibus, vel plus minus ab ea septicide solutis ; vel capsula septicide cum co- 
lumna placentifera bipartibilis. | Semina ovata vel orbiculata, facie interna plana 
vel concava affixa, dorso plus minus convexa, lvia vel rugulosa. Albumen 
sepius oblongum, circumdatum testa incrassato-cartilaginea alzeformi vel calloso- 
“marginante. Embryo rectus; radicula ad apicem fructus spectans in speciebus 
oligospermis, ab hilo parum remota in polyspermis. Benth. 
Veronica (Hebe) formosa; fruticosa, ramis bifariam pilosulis, foliis brevis- 
sime petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis integerrimis uninerviis basi an- 
gustatis glabris, racemis in apicibus ramulorum paucifloris laxe subcorym- 
bosis, calycis segmentis anguste lanceolatis acutis, capsula calyce duplo 
longiore, seminibus apice uncinato-acuminatis. Benth.—Br. Prodr. p. 434. 
Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v.10. p. 462. 
Veronica diosmefolia. Kn. et Westr. Fl. Cab. v. 3. p. 65. t. 106. (non All. 
Cunn.) 
This pretty shrub has been long in cultivation at the Royal 
Gardens of Kew, raised from seeds sent from Van Diemen’s 
Land, where it inhabits Mount Wellington. Lately it has been 
planted against a wall having an eastern aspect, and has been 
found to brave the winters, and to flower copiously in the 
summer-months. ‘The flowers are a deep and bright blue, pro- 
duced at the end of almost every branchlet. 
Descr. Our plant forms a shrub about two feet high, erect, 
bushy, very much branched and. subfastigiate, exhibiting two 
obscure lines of hairs between the leaves. Leaves copious, rather 
crowded, somewhat four-fariously inserted, oblong-lanceolate, 
patent and recurved, tapering at the base, scarcely _ petiolate, 
MAY Ist, 1850. 
