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which are not crowded very closely, glabrous calyx except for scanty 

 cilia on the margin almost equalling the corolla-tube, and ovate obtuse 

 or subacute corolla-segments 4 mm. long as opposed to the oblong ones 

 2 mm. long rounded at the apex of V. macroura. The season of flower- 

 ing is altogether different. Whether V. Bollonsii is identical with the 

 Whangarei plant found by Colenso and referred by Hooker to 

 V . macrotira I do not know. This latter species, in my estimation, is 

 found only in the East Cape district, the var. dubia Cheesem. being 

 a good species as well as the unnamed plant growing in the neighbour- 

 hood of Wellington, and which I followed Hooker in referring to 

 V. macroura, but considered distinct enough to warrant a varietal name 

 (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 39, p. 361). I also consider V. Cookiana Colenso 

 as distinct from V. macroura. 



V . Bollonsii is dedicated to Captain J. Bollons, to whom not only New 

 Zealand botany, but zoology also, owes much. 



3. Veronica Dorrien-Smithii Cockayne sp. nov. 



Frutex parvus paido ramosus, ramulis ± incano-pubescentibus. 

 Folia sessilia, oblonga, elliptico-oblonga vel elliptico-lanceolata, circ. 

 5-6 cm. longa, supra glabra, subtus ad costam pubescentia. Racemi 

 folia aequantes vel paulo superantes, minute pubescentes. Calyx brevis, 

 profunde 4-partitus, T9 mm. longus; lobi late ovati, acuti vel apiculati. 

 ciliati. Corollae tubus 2*5-2*8 mm. longus, fauce pubescens; lobi 

 obovati, 2*8 mm. longi. Ovarium glabrum ; stylus vix exsertus. Cap- 

 sula late ovata, 4 mm. longa, calycem duplo excedens. 



Chatham Island : Growing on peaty ground at margin of Lake Tekua 

 Taupo, at an altitude of 240 m. Herb. Cockayne No. 8003. Flowers in 

 December and January ; seed ripe in February and March, 



V. Dorrien-Smithii is allied to J*. Dieffenbachii Benth., but is a 

 much smaller plant, and though the branches are straggling they are 

 not widely divaricating. It differs also in the hoary pubescent more 

 slender stems, broader light-green not whitish-green leaves, the very small 

 bracteoles and much shorter racemes. It is a variable plant, but it 

 does not seem to pass into V. Dieffenbachii. The stems may be con- 

 spicuously hoary or almost glabrous. In one example the leaves measure 

 9 cm. long by 3' 2 cm. broad, in another they are 5 cm. long and 2*8 cm. 

 broad with internodes 2*5 cm. long. The flowers are sometimes lavender 

 at first, then fading to white, or they may be white from the beginning. 



A plant growing under the waterfall at Te Awatapu is so distinct 

 as to merit a varietal name if it is constant from seed. The stems are 

 slender and straggling. The leaves are narrower than the type, darkish- 

 green, 5*5 cm. long and 1cm. broad; the midrib is purple; the raceme 

 slender, half as long again as the leaves, with the flowers rather distant; 

 the pedicels and base of the calyx dark red-purple and the stigma 

 hardly exserted. The flowers are lilac, changing to white. The plant 

 is in cultivation in my garden, and there is a specimen, No. 8005, in 

 my herbarium. 



The species is called after Captain A. A. Dorrien Smith, D.S.O., who 

 recently collected what I take to be a form in Chatham Island, and who 

 likewise is paying great attention to the cultivation in England of New 

 Zealand trees and shrubs. 



4. Celmisia lanceolata Cockayne sp. nov. 



Herba perennis Celmisiae coriaceae habitu. Folia ensiformia vel 

 lineari-lanceolata, circ. 24-28 cm. hmga, 2-2*6 cm. lata, acuta, rigida, 

 2— Proc, pt. ii. 



