T. KiKK. — On Veronica. 519 



hidden by the apical leaves ; bracts equalling the sepals but 

 broader, sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, corolla small, equalling 

 the sepals, tubular, lobes acute. Capsule equalling or shorter 

 than the calyx, ovate-oblong, acute, glabrous. 



South Island : Nelson — Mount Arthur, etc., Gheeseman, 

 Bryant ! Gihbs ! Canterbury— Mounts Darwin, Dobson, Tor- 

 lesse, and Cook, source of the Waimakariri, Haast ! Leith 

 Hill, Enys I Otago — Mountains north-east of Lake Hawea ; 

 Mount Arnould ; D. Petrie ! 3,000ft.-6,000ft. 



V. dasyphylla. 



Stems rigid, woody, lin.-3m. long, creeping at the base, 

 branches with the leaves ;^in. diameter. Leaves closely 

 quadrifariously imbricate, connate in pairs at the base, erect 

 or spreading above, oblong-obovate, rounded above, ciliated 

 below, sessile, very coriaceous. Flowers solitary, terminal, sunk 

 amongst the apical leaves. Calyx divided nearly to the base, 

 lobes oblong, obtuse, hispid pubescent below, ciliated. Corolla 

 broadly funnel-shaped, tube broad, shorter than the limb, 

 lobes 5, large, rounded, spreading. Stamens 2, filaments very 

 short; style long, slender. Capsule oblong, seated in a cupular 

 disk, rather turgid, much shorter than the calyx, slightly 

 retuse. Logania tetragona, Hook, f., Handbk., 189 and 737 ; 

 J. Buchanan, in Trans. N.Z. Inst., xiv. (1881), 347, t. xxviii., 

 f. 2. 



South Island : Nelson — Mount Arthur, &c., W. H. Bryant ! 

 Otago — West Coast Sounds, Lake District, and Mount Alta, 

 J. Buchanan ! Ben Lomond and Old Man Eange, D. Petrie ! 

 3,500ft.-5,000ft. 



A small species, remarkable for the large terminal flower 

 with its pentamerous calyx and corolla. All the flowers ex- 

 amined by me are diandrous. I am indebted to the Director 

 of the Herbarium, Kew, for a small portion of the type-speci- 

 men. 



V. gilliesiana. 



A prostrate or suberect shrub, stems lin.-6in. long, much 

 branched, spreading, tetragonous, with the leaves :|-in.-^in. 

 diameter. Leaves glabrous in the young state, lax, linear, 

 pinnatifid ; mature closely imbricating below, connate by the 

 broad base, tips spreading, linear or linear-oblong, convex 

 beneath, deeply concave above or rarely flat, rounded and 

 very obtuse at the tip, margins ciliate. Flowers terminal or 

 near the apex of a shoot, axillary, solitary or in 2-4- 

 flowered umbels. Calyx deeply divided, lobes 4, oblong, 

 ciliate; corolla funnel-shaped, tube shorter than the calyx, 

 segments orbicular spreading, the uppermost much nar- 

 rowed at the base ; stamens 2 or rarely 4, filaments very 



