CoLENSo. — On Phsenogams. 277 



genus that this one is closely aUied to, or may be compared 

 with. At first sight its pale-green narrow foliage reminded 

 me of some species of Pimelea. Its sixiall close-set flowers, 

 with their light-green calyces bordered wliite, and clear light- 

 green narrow leaves with their peculiar truncated tips, are 

 good characters. 



2. V. azunea, sp. nov. {noii Link.). 



Shrub erect, branched, glabrous ; branches generally having 



3 short terminal branchlets, deeply and regularly ringed J§- in. 

 apart ; branchlets slender, sub 2 in. long, 1 line diameter ; 

 leaves at tips subdistichous, 12-14, crowded, erect, ovate, 



4 lines long, 2 lines broad, subsessile, subcoriaceous, strongly 

 keeled ; tip subacute semi-knobbed by the stout prolonged 

 midrib ; expanding at base, and closely appressed to branchlet ; 

 slightly concave and transversely wrinkled on upper surface 

 at base. Flowers terminal in short compact corymbs of 4-5 ; 

 pedicels 1-lf lines long; bracts broadly ovate. Calyx as 

 long as tube ; lobes large, oblong, obtuse, slightly ciliolate. 

 Corolla clear bright-blue, 3 lines diameter, limb-lobes rather 

 large, nearly equal ; tips of the 2 lateral ones and lower lobe 

 rounded, of the upper subacute ; tube 1 line long. Stamens 

 stout, excluded ; anthers largely cordate. Style longer than 

 stamens, fiexuous ; stigma small, coloured, simple. 



Hah. Kuahine Mountain-range, east side ; February, 1898 : 

 Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. A striking and neat species from its small symmetrical 

 foliage and its pretty bright-blue flowers — a colour rather 

 rare in our New Zealand Veroniccz. Its nearest alliance is, I 

 think, with V. huxifolia, Benth. 



3. V. polyphylla, sp. nov. 



A small low diffuse undershrub ; branches hairy, long ; 

 branchlets woody, ascending, slender, 1^ in. -2 in. high. 

 Leaves on top of branchlets, small, numerous, close, spread- 

 ing, suborbicular, 2 lines diameter (some much smaller), 

 thickish, margins deeply crenate and subrevolute, their 

 lobules thickened, glabrous, apical lobe large and very obtuse, 

 base tapering, slightly hairy underneath and wrinkled ; 

 petioles 1 line long, slender ; hairs short, scattered. Flowers 

 rather large for plant, terminal, generally 2 together on 

 separate peduncles, 1 line long, with very small subspathulate 

 leaves at bases and between them. Calyx, sepals 4, cut 

 nearly to base, linear, thick, obtuse, irregular in width. 

 Corolla pale, whitish, 2 lines diameter, upper and 2 lateral 

 lobes large, the lower smaller, all umch veined, with tips 

 rounded. Stamens short, curved ; anthers large, suborbicular, 

 cordate, flattish, pale, included. 



