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acuminate. Style very long, longer than calyx ; stigma 

 small, clavate. 



Hab. Ruahiue Mountain-range, east side ; February, 1898 : 

 Mr. H. Hill. 



2. M. tenuifolia, sp. nov. 



Plant small, erect, hispid ; roots numerous, long, woody, 

 wiry, blackish. Leaves radical, spreading ; flower-stalk 3 in.- 

 5 in. high, solitary, slender, sometimes two from one root; 

 hairs white, strigose, scattered on leaves but close on stalk. 

 Leaves radical, 6-8. petiolate, limb broadly oblong, -I in. 

 long, 4 lines wide, smaller ones suborbicular, thin, margins 

 entire; petioles slender, sub ^'\n. long, dilated at bases; on 

 stem, 4-6, the lowermost pair opposite, petiolate ; others 

 sessile, smaller, scattered, alternate. Flowers terminal on 

 raceme, 6-10, distant, pedicelled ; pedicels slender, li lines 

 long. Calyx green, campanulate, 2 lines long; lobes cut half- 

 way down, spreading, ovate-acuminate, tips acute, 3-veined, 

 margins ciliate ; hispid on veins, which are ridged and coloured. 

 Corolla small, pale-pinkish ; tube cylindrical, narrow ; lobes 

 large, rounded, veined. Scales of throat reniform, margins 

 entire. Stamens short ; anthers narrow ovate-cordate, tips 

 produced above scales, obtuse. Style long, exserted ; stigma 

 small, globose. Nuts orbicular, light-brown, shining, slightly 

 margined. 



Hah. Euahine Mountain-range, east side ; 1898 : Mr. A. 

 Olsen. 



Order LIII. Scrophularine^. 

 Genus 7. Veronica, Linn. 



1. V. truncatula, sp. nov. 



Shrub small, glabrous ; branchlets erect, opposite, woody, 

 slender, 2^ in. -3 in. long, y^^in. diameter, regularly ringed, 

 scars jJg in. distant ; bark grey, longitudinally furrowed. 

 Leaves terminal, rather numerous, 12-15, patent, spreading, 

 sub narrow-ovate, 1 in. long, 2-3 lines wide, sessile ; tip trun- 

 cate, thickened ; midrib rather prominent below ; submem- 

 branaceous, light-green. Flowers small and closely set m a 

 narrow subterminal raceme, 1 in. long, pedicelled ; pedicels 

 ^ line long ; bracts small, oblong. Calyx small, 1 line long, 

 4-lobed; lobes oblong, obtuse, pale-green, 1-nerved, with 

 white membranous margins. Corolla small, 2 lines dia- 

 meter, white ; lobes nearly equal ; tips rounded. Stamens 

 excluded; anthers subcordate, tips acute; style erect, straight, 

 longer than stamens ; stigma capitate. 



Hah. Euahine Mountain -range, east side; Februarv, 1898: 

 Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. I do not know of any New Zealand species of this 



