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branches, 1-3 in. long, equalling the leaves or only slightly longer 
than them, dense-flowered ; rhachis, pedicels, and bracts pubescent ; 
pedicels short, rather stout. Flowers small, tin. diam., white 
with a lilac tinge. Calyx short and broad, deeply 4-partite; seg- 
ments broadly oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, 
about half as long again as the calyx, seldom more; limb 4-lobed ; 
lobes about as long as the tube, broadly oblong or almost orbicular, 
obtuse. Capsule about din. long, ovate, acute, about twice as long 
as the calyx.—A. Cunn. Precur. n. 378 ; Raoul, Choix, 43; Hook. 
f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 192, and Handb. N.Z. Fl. 207 (in part only) ; 
Armsir. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 351; Kirk in Trans. N.Z. 
Inst. xxviii. (1896) 526. V. stenophylla, Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. ii. 
760. V. arborea, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vi. (1874) 242. 
NortH Istanp: Auckland— Whangarei Heads and Taranga Islands, 
7’. F. C.; Great Barrier Island, Kirk! East Cape district, Kirk. Hawke’s 
Bay, Colenso! Wellington—Cape Terawhiti and hills near Wellington, Bu- 
chanan! Kirk! SovutH Istanp: Marlborough — Queen Charlotte Sound, 
Banks and Solander. December-February. Sea-level to 2000 ft. 
There is some little doubt as to the plant that Vahl described as V. parvifloras 
but it is probably identical with the V. floribunda of Banks and Solander’s 
manuscripts and the V. arborea of Buchanan. It is chiefly characterized by 
its large size—sometimes considerably over 25 ft.— small linear-lanceolate leaves, 
small dense racemes usually not much exceeding the leaves, and short and 
broad corolla-tube. In the Flora and in the Handbook it is united with 
V. angustifolia, A. Rich, which I take to be quite distinct. 
17. V. leiophylla, Cheesem. n. sp.—A large spreading perfectly 
glabrous shrub 4-12 ft. high ; branches terete. Leaves spreading, 
sessile or very shortly petiolate, 3-14in. long, 4-4 in. broad, linear- 
oblong or narrow oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, flat, smooth, 
coriaceous, glabrous or the midrib obscurely puberulous above. 
Racemes towards the tips of the branches, much longer than the 
leaves, 2-4in long, slender; rhachis, pedicels, and bracts puberulous ; 
pedicels longer than the calyx. Flowers rather densely placed, 
tin. diam. by tin. long or more. Calyx small, 4-partite; seg- 
ments oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube about twice as long as the 
calyx ; limb equalling or shorter than the tube, 4-lobed; lobes 
oblong, obtuse, the anterior one rather narrower. Capsule 4 in. 
long, broadly oblong, subacute, compressed, glabrous, nearly three 
times as long as the calyx.—V. parviflora var. phillyrezfolia, Hook. 
f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 192. 
Sout Is~tanp: Apparently not uncommon throughout, from Nelson to 
Otago. Sea-level to 3000 ft. December—February. 
This appears to me to be a perfectly distinct species, easily distinguished 
from V. parviflora, under which it was placed by Hooker, by the flat linear- 
oblong usually obtuse leaves and much larger flowers and capsules. I suspect 
that Kirk’s V. parviflora var. strictissima, of which I have only seen two im- 
