Veronica. | SCROPHULARINE 2. 903: 
The plant herein described is the original V. ligustrifolia of A. Cunning- 
ham, and of Bentham in De Candolle’s Prodromus. It by no means corre- 
sponds with the ligustrifolia of Hooker, who included in the term Bentham’s. 
V. acutiflora and my leiophylla, and possibly other plants. As a species it 
comes nearest to V. salicifolia, differing in the smaller size, paler bark, and 
more twiggy habit, in the much smaller and more obtuse leaves, in the lax- 
flowered racemes, in the acute and almost glabrous calyx-segments, and in the 
short broad tube of the corolla and its acute spreading lobes. I am indebted to. 
Mr. N. E. Brown for comparing my North Cape specimens with Cunningham’s 
type. 
7. V. pubescens, Banks and Sol. ex Benth. in D.C. Prodr. 
x. 460.—A slender diffusely branched shrub 4-6 ft. high; branches. 
terete, the younger ones villous with soft spreading white hairs. 
Leaves spreading or suberect, shortly petiolate, 14-3in. long, 
4-2in. broad, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute, narrowed 
towards the base, quite entire, midrib and margins and the whole 
of the under-surface villous with short soft white hairs. Racemes. 
axillary, 2-4in. long, 4in. diam., rather slender, many-flowered ; 
rhachis, pedicels, and calyx densely villous. Flowers small, 44 in. 
diam. Calyx 4-partite ; segments oblong - lanceolate, acute. 
Corolla-tube slender, longer than the calyx; limb with 4 rather 
narrow oblong lobes. Capsule ovate, acute, glabrous, nearly twice 
as long as the calyx.— Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.i. 193; Handb. N.Z. 
Fl. 208; Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 351. 
NortH Is~anp: Auckland—Mercury Bay, Banks and Solander; Shoe 
Island (off Tairua Harbour) and Cabbage Bay, Adams ! 
Very near to V. salicifolia var. stricta, but at once separated by the copious 
hairs on the young shoots, margins and midribs of the leaves, and inflorescence. 
Mr. N. E. Brown informs me that Mr. Adams’s specimens correspond precisely 
with Banks and Solander’s type. Both Bentham and Hooker describe the 
plant as being ‘‘everywhere covered with red-brown hairs,’’ but on the upper: 
surface of the leaves the hairs are confined to the midrib and margins. 
8. V. salicifolia, Forst. Prodr.n.11.—An erect much-branched 
glabrous shrub 3-10{ft. high, more rarely taller and reaching 
12-15 ft., with a trunk Qin. diam.; branchlets slender, terete, 
glabrous or the younger ones minutely puberulous. Leaves sessile 
or nearly so, spreading, 2-6in. long, }-2in. broad, lanceolate or 
linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, usually 
narrowed at the base, entire or with a few obscure incisions, rather 
thin, pale-green, glabrous or slightly downy on the midrib and 
margins, margins flat, midrib usually prominent beneath, especially 
towards the base of the leaf. Racemes slender, longer than the 
leaves, 3-10 in. long, very many-flowered; rhachis, pedicels, and 
bracts pubescent or almost glabrate; pedicels slender, variable in 
length. Flowers $-tin. diam., white with a pale-lilac tinge to pale 
bluish-purple, rarely quite white. Calyx 4-partite; segments 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, acute or subacute,. 
