Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand. 457 



1834, R. Cunningham. Rocky head of Wangaroa Harbour. — 1826, A. Cun- 

 ningham. 



PLANTAGINE.E, Juss. 



Plantago, L. 



369. P. major. L. Willd. Sp. PI. 1. p. 641. Rcem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 3. 

 p. 111. A. Rich. Fl. Nov: Zel. p. 184. Engl, Bot. 1. 1558. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Banks of the river Thames. — 1827, 

 D' Urville. 



370. P. varia. Br. Prodr. 1. p. 424. Rcem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. 3. p. 150. 

 New Zealand (Northern Island). Between the villages of Ngaire and 



Wainai, on the east coast, upon dry hanks near the sea-shore. — 1834, R. Cun- 

 ningham. 



PRIMULACE^, Ventenat. 



371. A. arvensis, L. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 1. p. 821. Engl. Bot. t. 529.— 

 A. phcenicea, Lam. DC. Fl. Franc. 



New Zealand (Northern Island), among fern, far from any European 

 settlement. — 1834, R. Cunningham. Perhaps scarcely indigenous. 



2. Samolus, L. 



372. S. littoralis. Br. Prodr. 1. p. 428. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 185. 

 Rcem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. v. 5. p. 1. Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norf. p. 48.— Shef- 

 fieldia repens. Forst. Prodr. n. 67. MakoaJco, Incol. D' Urville. 



New Zealand (Middle Island). — 1773, G. Forster. Astrolabe Harbour. 

 — 1827, D' Urville. (Northern Island). On rocks washed by the sea, Bay 

 of Islands, &c. — 1826, A. Cunningham. — 1834, R. Cunningham. 



SCROPHULARINEiE, R. Br. 

 1. Veronica, L. Juss. 



373. V. speciosa (R. C. Mss.) glaberrima, racemis terminalibus brevi- 

 bus erectis confertifloris, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis pedicelli dimidio brevi- 

 oribus, laciniis calycinis ovatis acutiusculis tenuissime ciliatis dimidium tubi 

 corollae subasquantibus, foliis (oppositis) planis obovatis obtusis coriaceis 

 decurrentibus, apiculo calloso obtuso marginibus integerrimis incrassatis co~ 

 loratis, caule fruticoso erectiusculo vel diffuso. All. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. sub 

 t. 3461. 



NapuJca ab indigenis vulgo vocatur. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). South head of the river Hokianga, 

 West Coast. — 1834, R, Cunningham. 



Frutex spectabilis, 3 — 6-pedalis, caulibus pluribus robustis adscendenti- 

 bus. Folia 3 — 4-pollicaria. Flores speciosi, cyaneo-violacei, fere facie 

 Lysimachia atropurpurece. Stamina exserta pistillum sequantia. Capsula 

 bipartibilis, elliptica, acuminata, glabra, calyce duplo longior. 



374. V. salicifolia. Forst. Prodr. n. 11. Vahl. Symb. 3. p. 4. Rcem. et 

 Sch. Syst. Veg. 1. p. 103. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 186. Endl. in Ann. 

 des Wien. Mss. band 1. App. t. 14. KoloJcia?t, Incol. Med. Ins, D' Urville. 

 Korolcio, Indig. ad flum. Hokianga, R. Cunningham. 



