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cauline similar, but smaller, alternate, distant, those below the 

 middle of stems very distant; hairs on upper surface coarse, 

 from raised black points (and so on calyx). Eacemes slender, 

 4 inches long, 16-20-flowered. Flowers pure white, distant, 

 alternate, very distant below; pedicels 2 lines long, curved, 

 hairy. Calyx dark-green, shining, 5-cleft, cut one-third down, 

 segments ovate, 3-veined, sub-acute, coarsely hairy, largely 

 ciliate; hairs stout, red, rather distant. Corolla infundibuli- 

 form ; tube cylindric, 2 lines long, veined (as also limb) ; 

 scales of throat small, roundish, entire, dark-coloured; limb 

 4 lines diameter, lobes rounded, deeply cut, much spreading, 

 smooth, margins slightly irregular; stamens included; anthers 

 ovate-lanceolate, hastate ; style exserted, curved, tip papillose. 

 Nuts broadly ovoid or oval, dark-brown, shining, margined, 

 sides nearly equal. 



Hab. Stony edges of a watercourse on the Huiarau Moun- 

 tain Eange, running into Lake Waikare, County of Whakatane ; 

 1887: Mr. A. Hamilton. 



Obs. I. This slightly rambling plant covers mossy boulders 

 in its native habitat, somewhat after the fashion of our creeping 

 Epilobiums, presenting an elegant appearance from its profusion 

 of virgin white flowers. As a species, it will rank under 

 section 3, " Handbook N. Z. Flora," being allied to M. australis 

 and to M. forsteri, but widely differing in several characters. 



II. I have much pleasure in naming it after its kind and 

 zealous discoverer, Mr. A. Hamilton, of Napier. 



Order LIIL— SCEOPHULARINE^E. 



Genus 7. Veronica, Linn. 



§ I. Capsule dorsally compressed. 



1. V. cookiana, sp. nov. 



Plant a low glabrous shrub, 1| feet high ; branches stout, 

 short, diffuse. Leaves broadly-oblong H - 2 inches long, f - l£ 

 inches wide, suddenly sub-acute, sub-coriaceous, sub-sessile ; 

 midrib lower half pubescent beneath : margins thickened, much 

 and closely pubescent ; petioles short, very broad, largely dilated, 

 somewhat winged, pubescent, margins hairy. Flowers closely 

 sub-terminal at tips of branches, presenting a thyrse-like ap- 

 pearance in 5 stout erect axillary racemes of many (000) flowers, 

 very closely compacted, spreading in flower, but imbricated 

 downwards (sub-pendulous) in fruit ; peduncles 1-2 inches 

 long, the lower one-third bare, densely pubescent ; bracts long, 

 narrow, subulate, pubescent. Calyx small, 1 line long, ad- 

 pressed, 5-lobed (3 large and 2 narrow lobes), cut half-way to 

 base, acute, strongly nerved, roughly pilose ; margins membran- 

 ous, ciliate. Corolla light-coloured with a pinkish-violet hue, 



