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on the upper surface with a yellow eye, and pink on the out- 

 side ; lobes spreading, elliptic-orbicular, tips retuse ; tube 

 nearly as long as limb ; anthers included small ; processes at 

 mouth of tube very small and crenulate. Seeds 4, large, 

 cordate-orbicular, flattish, shining, pale-brown (dark mature), 

 margins thin produced dark-brown. 



Hab. Sides of streamlets, low grassy plains, south of 

 Dannevirke, County of Waipawa ; 1891 : W. C. 



Obs. A species having affinity with some of our British 

 species, but differing from them in several characters. It was 

 late in the season when I detected this plant, and so failed to 

 obtain radical leaves. 



Order LIII. Sceophulaeine^. 

 Genus 7. Veronica, Linn. 



1. V. macrocalyx, sp. nov. 



Plant herbaceous, densely gregarious, perennial (or bien- 

 nial), glabrous, small, 3in.-4in. high, usually simple, erect, 

 sometimes branched and ascending, and when so. the slender 

 decumbent branches are rooting below ; stem and peduncles 

 puberulent. Leaves scattered, lowermost broadly elliptic (or 

 broadly oblong-ovate), 3i— 4i lines long, 3-nerved, margins 

 slightly and sparsely crenate-notched, petioles short, slender ; 

 upper stem-leaves smaller and narrower, margins entire, sub- 

 sessile. Flowers at top, axillary, single, alternate, rather 

 distant ; peduncle 2 lines long, erect. Calyx large, leaf-like, 

 4-cleft nearly to base, much larger than corolla, spreading ; 

 lobes oblong, obtuse, 1-nerved, margins entire. Corolla 

 patent, 2 lines diameter, oblate-orbicular, white (bluish before 

 expanding), the 3 larger lobes sub-orbicular-ovate with blue- 

 purple longitudinal lines (the upper lobe having 6-8 and the 

 lateral lobes 2 lines on each), the lower lobes much smaller 

 oblong-spathulate, white ; tube very short, the faux yellowish, 

 hairy, hairs patent. Anthers large, cordate, exserted, blue ; 

 stamens stout, white ; stigma capitate, penicillate. Capsule 

 pale-fawn, large, compressed, obcordate-orbicular, 2 lines wide, 

 deeply notched, glabrous, margins subacute glandular-hairy. 

 Seeds numerous, broadly elliptic, compressed, pale. 



Hab. Open grounds, in grassy spots, forming large patches, 

 banks of Eiver Manawatu, near Te Hautotara (Maori) village, 

 four miles south of Dannevirke, County of Waipawa ; late 

 autumn, 1891 : W. C. 



2. V. rugulosella, sp. nov. 



Plant small, herbaceous, annual, simple, erect, 6in.-8in. 

 high, slender, sometimes rooting at lower leaf-nodes, stem and 



