508 SCROPHULARINE. [ Verontca. 
pubescent or glabrate. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, short and 
broad, not nearly equalling the calyx; limb deeply 4-lobed ; lobes 
longer than the tube, oblong, acute or subacute. Capsule +in. 
long, ovate-oblong, acute, about twice as long as the calyx.— 
V. ligustrifolia var. acutiflora, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 192. 
Nortx Istanp: Auckland—Kerikeri Falls (Bay of Islands), Cunningham, 
Colenso! Kirk ! 
My knowledge of this is confined to a few specimens in Mr. Colenso’s 
herbarium and two or three in Mr. Kirk’s. Mr. Colenso’s specimens have the 
pedicels and calyces nearly glabrate; in Mr. Kirk’s they are softly pubescent. 
Mr. N. E. Brown informs me that they differ from the typical acutifiora in the 
rather shorter leaves, smaller flowers, and shorter calyx-segments; but I have 
little doubt but that they belong to that species. V. acutiflora is nearest to 
V. ligustrifolia, but is at once separated by the much narrower and longer leaves 
and different calyx. 
15. V. angustifolia, A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 187.—An erect 
much-branched glabrous shrub 5-8ft. high; branches slender, 
erect, naked below, bark often purplish-brown. Leaves sessile, 
spreading or deflexed, 14-34 in. long, 44in. broad, narrow-linear 
or narrow linear-lanceolate, often falcate, acute, dark-green and 
channelled above, paler and keeled beneath, quite glabrous, margins 
entire. Racemes numerous near the tips of the branches, opposite 
and axillary, erect or spreading, longer than the leaves, 2-5 in. long, 
slender, tapering, usually rather lax-flowered; rhachis, pedicels, 
and bracts pubescent; pedicels short, slender. Flowers rather 
small, 4in. diam., pale-lilac. Calyx very small, deeply 4-partite ; 
segments oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla-tube tubular, 2 or 3 times 
as long as the calyx; limb 4-lobed; lobes broadly oblong, obtuse. 
Capsule about 4in. long, ovate, acute, compressed, about twice as 
long as the calyx.—Raoul, Choix, 43. V. squalida, Kirk in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 528. V. parviflora var. angustifolia, Hook. 
jf. i Bot. Mag. t. 5965. 
Nort Isuanp: Hawke’s Bay, Colenso! H. Hill! Sourn Istanp: Nelson 
and Marlborough, abundant, D’ Urville, Buchanan! Travers! Kirk! T. F. C., 
&e. December-February. 
Very near to V. parviflora, and chiefly separated by the smaller size, longer 
and often drooping leaves, longer and more lax-flowered racemes, and longer 
corolla-tube. Hooker’s plate in the Botanical Magazine is excellent. 
16. V. parviflora, Vahl. Symb. Bot. iii. 4—A much-branched 
shrub or small tree 6-20ft. high, with a rounded dome-shaped 
head; trunk sometimes 2 ft. diam. at the base; branches slender, 
twiggy, ringed with the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves sessile, 
spreading or suberect, 1-24in. long, 14 in. broad, narrow linear- 
lanceolate, acute, almost flat or channelled above, keeled beneath, 
quite smooth, margins entire. Racemes near the tips of the 
