T. KiiiK. — On Veronica. 525 



long, narrow oblong or lanceolate, sessile or narrowed into a 

 short broad petiole, acute or subacute, usually entire, glaucous 

 beneath. Flowers in axillary racemes or panicles, exceeding 

 the upper leaves. Ehachis puberulous, bracteoles exceeding 

 the short pedicels. Calyx divided nearly to the base, segments 

 oblong -lanceolate equalling the corolla-tube; corolla-tube 

 equalling the lobes, lobes patent or reflexed, rather narrow, 

 rounded, the uppermost narrower and longer than the others. 

 Stamens on very short filaments, scarcely exceeding the co- 

 rolla-tube. Capsule ovate-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, 

 compressed. 



North Island : Hawke's Bay — Kuripapanga ; between the 

 Eangitikei Ford and Erewhon ; A. Hamilton! H.Hill! D. 

 Fetrie ! Euahine Mountains, W. Colenso, in Herb. Kew. 

 South Island : Otago, J. Buchanan ! 



Allied to V. colensoi, with which it has hitherto been con- 

 fused. I am indebted to the director of the Eoyal Gardens, 

 Kew, for comparing my specimens with Colenso's Euahine 

 plant. Mr. Hill sends cultivated specimens of what he con- 

 siders to be the same plant, but the branchlets are clothed 

 with leaves below, the leaves are serrate at the margins, oblong, 

 less acute, while the rhachis is glabrous and the fiow^ers are 

 almost sessile. To what extent these changes have been 

 produced by cultivation it is impossible to say at present, 



V. cliosmcefolia, E. Cunn., in Bot. Mag., sub-t. 3461. 



Leaves entire,, -lin.-fin. long, elliptical oblong, rigidly 

 coriaceous, keeled below. Sepals 4, obtuse (in all the speci- 

 mens examined by me). Capsule oblong-lanceolate, narrowed 

 at both ends. 



North Island : Auckland — From the North Cape to Ho- 

 kianga and Whangarei. 



Var. trisepala, sp., Colenso, in Trans. N.Z. Inst., xv. (1882), 

 324. 



Branchlets very slender. Leaves im.-lin., narrow, linear- 

 oblong, with 3 or 4 incisions on each side, narrowed at both 

 ends, falcate, spreading, not keeled. Calyx-lobes 3, broadly 

 obtuse, the upper emarginate or obcordate. Capsule elliptic- 

 ovate, narrowed at both ends. 



North Island : Auckland — Bay of Islands and Hokianga ; 

 Hawke's Bay — North end of Te Kaweka Eange;''= A. Hamil- 

 ton ! 



The obcordate or emarginate upper sepal pointed out by 

 Mr. Colenso as characteristic of this form is iii variably present 

 in all the specimens examined by me, and is occasionally met 



* First mentioned, but not described, in Trans. N.Z. Inst., iii. (1870), 169. 



