Veronica. | SCROPHULARINE. 515 
puberulous or almost glabrate; pedicels wanting or the lower 
flowers alone shortly stalked; bracts oblong-ovate, obtuse, large, 
often exceeding the calyx. Flowers crowded on the branches 
of the raceme, about tin. diam. Calyx 4-partite; segments 
oblong, obtuse, with pale membranous ciliolate margins. Corolla- 
tube about half as long again as the calyx; limb equalling the tube 
or nearly so; lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute. Capsule 
broadly oblong, obtuse or subacute, about +in. long, not twice the 
length of the calyx. 
Sours Istanp: Marlborough—-Awatere Valley, Sinclair! Kaikoura Moun- 
tains, Buchanan! gorge of the Conway River, Cockayne ! 
A well-marked plant, easily recognised by the peculiar habit, spreading and 
long-petioled linear-obovate glaucous leaves, trichotomous racemes much longer 
than the leaves, almost sessile flowers, and large bracts. Its nearest ally is 
probably V. Colensoz. 
26. V. levis, Benth. in D.C. Prodr. x. 461.—A small perfectly 
glabrous densely branched shrub 1-5 ft. high; branches stout, erect, 
densely leafy above, below ringed with the scars of the fallen 
leaves; bark black. Leaves decussate, close-set, erect and ap- 
pressed, rarely further apart and spreading, 4—2in. long, 4—#in. 
broad, ovate-oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse or acute or apicu- 
late, abruptly narrowed into a short thick petiole, very thick 
and coriaceous, rigid, concave above, keeled at the back ; 
midrib stout, prominent beneath, usually excurrent at the tip; 
margins entire. Racemes 2-4 near the ends of the branch- 
lets, corymbosely branched, rarely simple, 3-14 in. long, dense- 
flowered; rhachis stout, pubescent; bracts small, oblong-ovate, 
coriaceous, usually exceeding the lower pedicels. Flowers white, 
t+in. diam. Calyx deeply 4-partite; segments oblong or oblong- 
ovate, obtuse. Corolla-tube rather broad, less than twice as 
long as the calyx; segments oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse. Cap- 
sule ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, about twice as long as the calyx. 
—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.i. 194; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 209; Armstr. in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 351. (?)V. azurea, Col. in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xxxi. (1899) 277. 
NortH Isnanp: Mount Hikurangi, Adams and Petrie! Mount Egmont, 
T. F.C. Tongariro, Bidwill, Capt. G. Mair! Ruapehu, H. Tryon! A. Hill! 
Ruahine Mountains, Colenso! H. Hill! A. Hamilton! Tararua Mountains, 
Buchanan! SoutH Istanp: Marlborough — Mount Duppa, Macmahon! 
2500-5000 ft. December--February. 
The typical state of this is distinguished by the close-set imbricating and 
More or less appressed leaves, which are keeled at the back, but not truncate or 
subcordate at the base as in V. bua«ifolia, and by the usually corymbosely 
branched racemes. This latter peculiarity, Mr. N. HK. Brown assures me, is well 
shown by the type specimens at Kew. It has been recorded from many districts 
in the South Island, from Nelson to Otago, but I have not seen any specimens 
that satisfactorily match those from the North Island. Most are referable to 
