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and its midrib not conspicuously raised. I think, when the 

 plants of the Chatham Islands are carefully studied from 

 living specimens, that many forms now considered identical 

 with those of New Zealand proper will be found distinct. 



Veronica glaucophylla, sp. nov. 



A low-growing round shrub, with very close-set branches, 

 glaucous leaves, and pubescent inflorescence. 



Stem terete, brownish, pubescent, especially on young 

 wood, with internodes half length of leaf. 



Leaves small, l'6cm. x6mm., linear-ovate or linear- 

 oblong, slightly concave on upper surface, glaucous on both 

 surfaces, entire, very obscurely ciliated, patent, with laminae 

 horizontal, almost sessile, with broad short concavo-convex 

 petiole ; midrib sunken above and beneath. 



Eacemes 5-7 cm. long, much exceeding termination of 

 branches, tapering towards tip, with close-set flowers ; pedi- 

 cels equalling or smaller than calyx ; bracts one-third length 

 of pedicel, subulate, ciliated, acute ; calyx ovate, acute or sub- 

 acute, ciliate, scarious, rather longer than corolla-tube: corolla 

 — tube, 1-5 mm. long, white, hairy in throat, widening towards 

 limb ; limb, spreading : segments 2 mm. to 3 mm. long, ob- 

 long, concave above, white, rounded at apex, upper and two 

 lateral equal, lower much smaller; ovary pubescent; style 

 long, straight, much exserted, pubescent ; stamens much ex- 

 serted, spreading. 



Capsules 5 mm. x 4 mm., broadly ovate, subacute, pubes- 

 cent, flattened, rather more than twice as long as calyx. 



Hab. Craigieburn Mountains, Canterbury, at altitude of 

 1,200 m. (1890); L.C. 



Easily recognised bj^ the round habit of growth, very 

 glaucous small linear-ovate acute leaves, slender racemes of 

 short white flowers with long exserted style, pubescent ovary, 

 and very small bracts. 



Celmisia flaccida, sp. nov. 

 Leaves narrow-lanceolate to lanceolate, from 21 cm. to 

 14 cm. long x 27 mm. to 20 mm. broad, spreading, soft, coria- 

 ceous only when dry, with subserrate considerably recurved 

 margins ; lamina at base usually tapering into the petiole, 

 occasionally slightly rounded ; upper surface covered with 

 thin pellicle of white sometimes brownish silky tomentum, 

 wrinkled into long parallel ridges, leaving broader furrows 

 between, pale-green, yellowish-brown when dry; under-sur- 

 face densely covered with a thick mat of white or yellowish- 

 white silky tomentum ; midribs stout, widening gradually 

 towards petiole ; nerves usually six pairs ; petioles rather 

 more than half as long as lamina, contracted and very 



