[Prate 95.] 
THE BEAUTEOUS VERONICA. 
(VERONICA FORMOSA.) 
A handsome Evergreen. Half-hardy Shrub, from Van DIEMEN’S LAND, belonging to LINARIADS. 
Specific Character. 
THE BEA ‘Sine VERONICA. Shrubby. Branches | VERONICA معي اميف‎ fruticosa, ramis bifariam 
Leaves on very short stalks, oblong- pilosulis, foliis imé petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis 
lanceolate, uk entire, one-nerved, narrowed to the pur seinen sa uninerviis basi angustatis glabris, 
base, smooth. Racemes few-flowered, loosely corymbose racemis in apicibus ramulorum paucifloris laxé sub- 
at the ends of the young branches. Segments of the eorymbosis, calycis segmentis angust? lanceolatis acutis, 
calyx narrowly lanceolate, acute. Capsule twice as long eapsulá ددنت‎ duplé longiore.— Bentham. 
as the calyx. 
Veronica formosa : R. Brown, Prodr., 434 ; Bentham, in De Candolle’s Prodromus, 10, 462 ; aliàs V. diosmeefolia : 
Knowles and Westcott, Fl. Cab., 3, 65, t. 106. 
A ‘ative of Van Diemen's Land, where it appears to be plentiful. Mr. Gunn, from whom we 
have wild specimens, says “it is common on the South Esk at Launceston, and I have 
gathered itat an altitude of 3500 feet above the sea on Mount Wellington and the Western 
Mountains. Are there not two species under my number 527?”—a question which he is more 
competent to pronounce upon than we are. 
What we have in cultivation is a compact, dark green, evergreen bush, with small box-like leaves 
arranged in a distinctly decussate or four-rowed manner, and always having a great tendency to 
preserve the horizontal line, or even to curve below it. The flowers are a clear bright blue, appear 
in little corymbs at the ends of the branches, and are much like those of 7. maritima on a large 
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