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base, keeled and submucronate ; pedicels about 1 line long ; 

 calycine bracts half as long as corolla, ovate, concave, finely 

 serrulate, tips produced, acute. Corolla 4 lines long, narrow 

 campanulate, reddish-orange, lobes shorter than tube, sub- 

 deltoid-ovate, lateral margins much incurved, whitish, tips 

 narrow revolute. Anthers linear-elliptic, 2-lobed, included ; 

 filaments free twice as long as style ; style 1 line long, 

 slightly puberulent, stoutish, cylindrical, simple ; hypogenous 

 scales sub-linear-ovate (or lingulate), broadest at base, trun- 

 cate and notched at tip. Ovary very small, scarcely 1 line 

 diameter, with 5 minute rounded protuberances at top. 



Hab. Open lands near Cape Eunaway, east coast, North 

 Island ; 1892 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. Apparently this striking species is allied to D. stric- 

 tum, Hook. My specimen is a large one, though sadly crushed 

 in long carriage in a saddle-bag, especially its more tender 

 flowering part ; sufficient, however, remained to enable me to 

 describe it. Better flowering and fruiting specimens are 

 wanted ; also to know more about the size and shape of the 

 shrub. 



Order LIII. Scrophulakinej-:. 

 Genus 7. Veronica, Linn. 



1. V. clanviniana, sp. nov. 



A small neat glabrous shrub, with short spreading opposite 

 simple branchlets, their bark light-brownish-green, with a 

 narrow longitudinal pubescent line decurrent from bases of 

 each pair of leaves to the next pair. Leaves subdecussate, 

 distant, regular, subconcave, thickish, glaucous-green, minutely 

 and thickly dotted with whitish specks on both surfaces, 

 broadly-lanceolate, 8-9 lines long, 2^-3 lines broad, not keeled, 

 sessile, tips acute, blunt, margins entire lighter green (or 

 yellowish-green). Flowers subterminal in 2-4 opposite axil- 

 lary racemes, having a subcorymbose appearance ; racemes 

 short sub lin. long, the flowers very thickly set ; peduncle 6-7 

 lines long, pubescent, as also are pedicels and bracts ; pedicels 

 sub 1 line long; bracts ovate acute submembranous, ad- 

 pressed, longer than pedicel. Calyx glabrous, lobes broadly- 

 ovate, green with white membranaceous margins, tips ciliolate. 

 Corolla white, 3 lines diameter, lobes incurved obtuse, the 3 

 larger oblong, the upper solitary, the lower lobe very small ; 

 tube 1 line long, throat puberulous ; anthers largely exserted ; 

 purple ; style slender, patent, 4 lines long ; stigma small, 

 penicillate. Capsule dorsally compressed, 3 times as long as 

 calyx, broadly-ovoid turgid, red-brown, veined ; valves 2-fid, 

 gaping ; seeds numerous, orbicular and broadly-elliptic, disc 

 form thickest in the middle, light-brown, glabrous, shining. 



