Veronica. | SCROPHULARINES. 505 
Nortu Isnanp: Vicinity of Wellington, Kirk! Souru Isnanp: Canter. 
bury—Southbridge, Kirk ! July-September, 
Nearest to V. macrocarpa, but separated from it, and from all the large- 
leaved species, by the almost orbicular capsule rounded at the tip. The leaves 
are also broader and more obtuse than in any of the forms of V. macrocarpa. 
10. V. macrocarpa, Vahl. Symb. Bot. iii. 4.—An erect branch- 
ing shrub 4-8ft. high; branchlets rather stout, terete, glabrous. 
Leaves sessile or very shortly petioled, spreading, 3-6in. long, 
4-lin. broad, narrow oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate or linear- 
lanceolate, acute, rather coriaceous, dark-green, smooth and gla- 
brous, flat, veins obscure. Racemes usually rather longer than the 
leaves, 3-7in. long, many-flowered, cylindrical, acute, sometimes 
attenuate at the tip; rhachis and pedicels glabrate or puberulous. 
Flowers large, white, +4 in. diam. or even more. Calyx 4-partite ; 
segments oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla-tube broad, about twice 
as long as the calyx; limb 4-lobed; lobes oblong, obtuse. Stamens 
very long, far-exserted. Capsule large, +4 in. long, ovate, com- 
pressed, acute, three times as long as the calyx.—A. Cunn. Precur. 
n. 376; Kaoul, Choix, 43; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 192; Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. 207; Armstr. mn Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 351; Kirk 
in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 529. 
Var. latisepala, Cheesem.—Habit and foliage of the type, but racemes 
usually shorter than the leaves; flowers and capsules often secund. Calyx- 
segments rather broader. Flowers deep-violet.—V. latisepala, Kirk in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 530. 
Var. affinis, Cheesem.—Leaves smaller, 2-4in. long. Racemes shorter, 
3-5in.; flowers smaller, white. Capsules 3—}in., twice as long as the calyx. 
Apparently a passage-form into V. salicifolia. 
Var. crassifolia, Cheesem.—Leaves smaller and narrower, 2-3 in. long by 
4-4 in. broad, linear-lanceolate, very thick and coriaceous, rigid when dry. 
Racemes equalling the leaves or longer than them, glabrate. Flowers not seen. 
Calyx-segments oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute or subacute. Capsule 
4-4 in., ovate, acute, twice as long as the calyx. Perhaps a distinct species. 
NorrtuH Istanp: From Hokianga and Mongonui southwards to Poverty Bay 
and Taranaki, not uncommon. SovutH IstaAnp: Queen Charlotte Sound, Banks 
and Solander. Var. latisepala: Great and Little Barrier Islands, Whangarei 
Heads, Kirk! T. F.C. Var. crassifolia: Nelson, between Karamea and West- 
port, W. Townson ! Sea-level to 4000 ft. August-—November. 
The typical state of this, with large somewhat coriaceous leaves, long 
racemes of large white flowers, and very large acute capsules, is a most striking 
plant, and can be recognised at a glance. But there are many intermediates 
between it and V. salicifolia which are difficult to place, and the one which 
I have called var. afinis might be referred to either species. Mr. Kirk’s 
V. latisepala, which I have had repeated opportunities of studying at the Little 
Barrier Island, does not differ from the type except in the violet flowers and 
shorter often secund racemes, and is best treated as a variety. Mr. Townson’s plant 
from Karamea, which I have called var. crassifolia, differs markedly in the 
smaller and narrower much more coriaceous and rigid leaves, and in the acute 
calyx-segments, and may prove to be a separate species. - 
