36 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



45892 to 45898. 



From Aucklaud, New Zealand. Presented by Mr. H. R. Wrij^Iit, Avondale. 

 Received March 7, 1918. 



45892. PoMADERRis ELLiPTiCA LabiU. Rliamnacese. 



"Kuinarahou. A rare dwarf shrub belonging to tlie Auckland Prov- 

 ince. This plant is difficult to transplant, but is easily raised from seed. 

 It flowers when 2 years old and if kept well pinched back makes a 

 glorious specimen, being covered in spring with a mass of yellovr flowers. 

 It grows on some of our poor clay lands of a close nature, similar to that 

 where the heather grows." {Wright.) 



A branching shrub, 4 to 8 feet high, with the young branches, leaves, 

 and flower clusters covered with white or buff-colored stellate hairs. 

 The ovate to oblong leaves are 2 to 3 inches long, and the cymes of 

 yellow flowers, with crisp-margined petals, are clustered into large 

 many-branched panicles. Native name Kiimarahou, from kuinara (a 

 tuberlike root) and hou (growing deeply or strongly). (Adapted from 

 Cheeseman, Manual of Ncic Zealand Flora, p. 99, and from Laing and 

 Blackwell, Plants of New Zealand, p. 236.) 



45893 and 45894. X Veronica andersoxii Lind. and Paxt. Scrophu- 

 lariacese. 



45893. A hybrid between Ve7-onica salicifolia and V. speciosa. An 

 ornamental shrub, with drooping, entire, thick, pale-green leaves, 

 somewhat like those of phlox, and brilliant violet-blue flowers, 

 sometimes whitened toward the base of certain racemes. This 

 plant is an interesting C(imbination of grace and majesty, elegance 

 and hardiness. The handsome racemes are dense, erect, slightly 

 nodding at the tip, and somewhat longer than the leaves. (Adapted 

 from Flore des Serres et des Jardins de Europe, vol. 7, p. 35.) 



45894. Variety variegata. A handsome ornamental shrub, with blue- 

 purple flowers in long, slender, semierect racemes. For 30 or 40 

 years this Veronica has been largely propagated and used as a 

 bedding plant for the sake of its clear variegation, the leaves 

 having a broad, creamy white margin. Under this system of 

 treatment the plant seldom or never flowered but produced an 

 abundance of shoots and foliage, which was really what the 

 flower-bedding gardener desired. By cultivating it in a pot, 

 however, until the stems get fairly woody and the pot filled 

 with roots, it flowers beautifully, making a handsome subject for 

 the greenhouse or conservatory in winter. (Adapted from The 

 Gardening World, vol. 23, p. 829.) 



45895. Veronica salicifolia Forst. Scrophulariacea». Speedwell. 



A very useful, gracefully ornamental species, forming a large bush 

 5 to 8 feet high, clothed with willow-shaped leaves up to 5 inches in 

 length. During summer it bears profusely slender, pendulous racemes, 

 often 6 inches or more long, of white, pink, or lilac-tinged flowers. 

 (Adapted from Gardening Illustrated, vol. 37, p. 308.) 



45896 and 45897. Veronica speciosa R, Cunn. Scrophulariacere. 



Speedwell. 



45896. One of the best of all the veronicas, for it is of vigorous habit, 

 3 to 5 feet high, forms a wide and .shapely bush, and blooms well 

 in autumn and early winter. It bears erect, dense racemes of 



