L. Cockayne. — Notes o?i New Zealand Floristic Botany. 199 



In the MS. of my "" Vegetation of New Zealand " tlie Arthur's Pass 

 plant is treated as a distinct species, under the name 0. insignis, I having 

 failed to notice that Colenso had already given it a name. 



9. Podocarpus nivalis Hook. var. erectus Cockayne var. nov. 



Frutex erectus, + 1*8 m. altus, 1-2-1-5 m. diametro, haud prostratus, 

 foliis usque ad 2-5 cm. longis. 



South Island : Canterbury — Debris-field on Mount Sugarloaf, Cass, in 

 full sunshine, at altitude of 900 m. and upwards. C. E. Foweraker and L. C. 



A. number of specimens of this shrub were observed growing side by 

 side under exactly the same climatic and edaphic conditions as the ordinary 

 variety of P. nivalis, which was everywhere prostrate. For further par- 

 ticulars see paper by Cockayne and Foweraker in this volume (p. 166). 



10. Samolus repens (Forst. f.) Pers. var. strictus Cockayne var. nov. 



Caules erecti, + 20 cm. alti, stricti ; folia i imbricata, linearia vel 

 lineari-lanceolata, acuta. 



Kermadee Islands; W. R. B. Oliver. Poor Knights Islands; L. C. 

 Norfolk Island ; R. M. Laing. 



This well-marked variety differs from S. repens var. procumhens 

 R. Knuth, so common on the New Zealand coast generally, in its tall, 

 erect, crowded, straight, unbranched stems, and more or less imbricating 

 much narrower and generally longer leaves. The varietal name was first 

 applied to this plant by me in 1906 (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 38, p. 356), but 

 without any description. 



11. Veronica Biggarii Cockayne sp. nov. 



Frutex parvus, decumbens, floribundus, ramulis gracilibus, dense foliosis, 

 pauciramosis, strictis, 20 - 24 cm. longis. Folia subdisticha, obovata, 

 obovato-oblonga vel oblonga, subsessilia, glaberrima, coriacea, glauca, saepe 

 purpureo tincta, 1 -2-1 -8 cm. longa 6-8 mm. lata, margine integerrim^, 

 apice rotundata, obtusa vel interdimi subacuta. Racemi 6-10, in axillis 

 foliorum dispositi circ. 2-5 cm. infra ramuli apicem, circ. 3 cm. longi, 

 pedunculis subrigidis, 2 cm. longis. Flores parvi, albi. Calycis-lobi ovati, 

 obtusi, minutissime ciliati, coroUae-tubo breviores, 1 mm. longi. Corollae- 

 tubus 1-5 mm. longus, fauce glaber; lobi 4, dorsalis et laterales fere 

 aequantes, obovati, obtusi circ. 3 mm. longi et 2 mm. lati. Capsula ovoidp-a.. 

 compressa, acuta 4 mm. longa, minutissime sparsimque pubescens. 



South Island : Otago- — On subalpine rocks. Eyre Mountains, at 1,200 m. 

 altitude ; D. L. Poppelwell ! Named in honour of Mr. G. Biggar, of Gore, 

 who has accompanied Mr. Poppelwell on many botanical excursions and 

 rendered material assistance. 



This distinct species, which does not seem closely related to any other, 

 is at once recognized by its decumbent or prostrate habit ; spreading, rather 

 stiff, densely leafy branches ; small glaucous, glabrous, almost sessile, oblong, 

 ovate or oblong-ovate leaves with from rounded to subacute apices ; numerous 

 short, rather dense racemes ; small white flowers with short calyx-segments 

 and corolla-tube ; and small slightly pilose capsules. The description is 

 drawn up from a cultivated plant almost past flowering, so some allowance 

 must be made for inaccuracies; nor can anything be said as to difierences 

 between individual plants. 



