506 SCROPHULARINE). [ Veronica. 
11. V. amabilis, Cheesem. n. sp.—A tall branching shrub 6-15 ft. 
high or even more; branches rather slender, terete, quite glabrous 
or the younger ones minutely puberulous. Leaves spreading, 
shortly petiolate, 2-4in. long, 3-lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate or 
elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, firm but hardly coriaceous, 
flat, smooth and glabrous, midrib obscurely puberulous above, 
margins entire. Racemes axillary and opposite near the tips of 
the branches, 4-6 in. long, slender, lax-flowered, usually attenuate 
at the tip; pedicels slender, the lower ones often 4in. long or 
more. Flowers large, 4 in. diam., white. Calyx deeply 4-partite ; 
segments ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliolate. Corolla-tube 
short and broad, equalling the calyx or rather longer than it; limb 
4-lobed; lobes oblong, obtuse. Capsule din. long, ovate, acute, 
twice as long as the calyx.—V. salicifolia var. gracilis, T. Kark, 
Forest Fl. t. 120. 
Var. blanda, Cheesem.—Apparently a closely branched shrub. Leaves 
rather close-set, spreading, often distinctly petiolate, 1-24in. long, 3—in. 
broad, elliptic-lanceolate or linear-oblong, acute or acuminate, coriaceous, flat, 
glabrous or puberulous on the margins and midrib above; margins thickened, 
entire or remotely notched. Racemes 2-3in. long, often lin. broad, dense- or 
lax-flowered. Flowers large, white, }-4in. diam. Calyx-segments acute. Ripe 
‘capsules not seen. 
SoutH Isnuanp: Otago—Bluff Hill, Kirk! Var. blanda: Port Chalmers, 
Petrie! Preservation Inlet, Kirk! Srmwarr Istanp: Port William, Lyall ; 
Paterson’s Inlet, G. M. Thomson! Ruapuke Island, H. J. Matthews ! 
The plant from the Bluff Hill, which I have taken for the type of the 
Species, was referred by Mr. Kirk to V. salicifolia, from which it appears to me 
to differ altogether in the broader and shorter leaves, more lax-flowered racemes, 
longer pedicels, much larger flowers, acute calyx-segments, shorter and broader 
corolla-tube, and larger capsule. It is much nearer V. macrocarpa, but the 
leaves are shorter and broader, the racemes laxer, and the calyx-segments acute. 
Var. blanda has still shorter and broader leaves, with the margins often thick- 
ened and peculiarly notched, and the racemes are shorter and denser, but the 
flowers are very similar. Mr. N. E. Brown informs me that Lyall’s Port 
William specimens, mentioned in the Handbook under V. macrocarpa and 
V. ligustrifolia, are both referable to it. 
12. V. Lewisii, Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 
357. — A handsome closely branched erect shrub 3-6 ft. high ; 
branches stout, terete, clothed with short and fine greyish-white 
pubescence. Leaves pale-green, spreading, shortly petiolate, 
14-24 in. long, 3-1in. broad, oblong or elliptic-oblong, acute or 
subacute, rounded or truncate or subcordate at the base, coriaceous, 
glabrous above, midrib often puberulous beneath, margins edged 
with a soff white pubescent line. Racemes near the tips of the 
branches, short and stout, 2-24 in. long, lin. diam., dense-flowered ; 
rhachis, pedicels, and bracts finely pubescent. Flowers large, $ in. 
diam. or even more, pale-blue. Calyx 4-partite; segments ovate- 
