A very pretty perennial plant, native of the country near 

 Port Jackson, whence it was many years since introduced 

 to our gardens. It is seldom cultivated, and yet its grace'' 

 ful racemes of pale blue flowers are exceedingly beautiful. 

 It is a little tender, and will not bear our ordinary winters 

 unprotected, but it may easily be kept with a very moderate 

 degree of care. 



The drawing was made last July, from plants growing in 

 the open ground in the fine collection of handsome hardy 

 plants in the Nursery of the Messrs. RoUissons of Tooting. 



No genus is more extensively distributed in the old 

 world than Veronica ; but the principal part of the species, 

 known in Europe, consist either of weedy plants, or of 

 species not particularly striking for their beauty ; it is in the 

 southern hemisphere, in New Holland, Van Diemen's Land, 

 and New Zealand, that the most interesting kinds are to be 

 found. V. diosvnfolia, salicifolia, and catarractce, all as yet 

 unknown in Europe in a living state, yield in beauty to very 

 few plants of the same countries. 



