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Veronica Decussata. Cross-Leav’p 
SPEEDWELL. 
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 Clafs and Order. 
~Dianpria Monocynia. 
7 : Generic Charafer. oo A 
Cor. limbo 4-partito: lacinia infima anguftiore. Cap/.e-locus 
laris apice émarginata, : 
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Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. ; 
VERONICA decuffata Spicis terminalibus paniculatis, foliis 
oblongis integerrimis levigatis coriaceis, caule 
: : fruticofo. Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 20. e 
VERONICA decuffata floribus racemofis axillaribus,  foliis 
oo ovalibus decuffatis integerrimis. Moench. — 
Weiffenfein. p. 137. Linn. Syff. Nat. tom. 2. 
ed.13. Gmel. p. 30. | 
The plant here reprefented, is a native of Falkland’s Ifland, — 
and was introduced to this country by Dr. Foruercitt, 
about the year 1776; if permitted to grow, it will become a 
buthy fhrub of a confident ble fize: it has been chiefly ad-_ 
mired for the unufual and regular growth of its leaves, which 
are ever-green, and grow thickly on the branches, crofs-wile, 
affording an excellent example of the folia decuffita; but it is 
entitled to our admiration on another account, its bloffoms 
have a moft delicious fragrance (fimilar to that of the Olea 
Jragrans) not mentioned by authors, and we believe fcarcely 
known, having never heard it fpoken of by thofe who have — 
cultivated the plant; its flowers, which are white, are pro- 
duced on the tops of the branches, which, however, they do — 
not ftriétly terminate, but ufually grow out jut below th 
fummits, on fhort racemi; the corolla is fometimes divided 
into five fegments, and there is a greater equality in the feg- 
ments than is ufually found-in the flowers of the Veronica, the 
feed-vellel differs alfo in its form, being longer, more oval, and 
{carcely emarginate; thefe feveral deviations from the ftruétu 
-of the Veronica genus, joined to the fragrance of the bloffoms 
‘of this plant, induce us to think, that it has more affinity with 
the Olea above mentioned. 6 ~ ae 
_ Cultivators complain, that it does not blow freely ; without 
any peculiarity of treatment, it flowers with us every year, 
‘ about the middle of June; it is one of the more hardy gree 
houfe plants, which is ufually and readily increafed by cutting 
