516 SCROPHULARINES. [ Veronica. 
Armstrong’s V. monticola, which is a larger plant, with larger laxer foliage, and 
longer always simple racemes. Others correspond with the V. Cockayniana of 
this work, which has flatter and more obtuse glaucous leaves, black when dry, 
simple very pubescent racemes, and larger flowers. States of V. Traversw, with 
more closely placed leaves than usual, have also had the name of V. levis applied 
to them. 
27. V. elliptica, Forst. Prodr. n. 10.—A copiously branched 
shrub or small tree 5-20 ft. high ; branches terete, rmged with the 
scars of the fallen leaves, the younger ones more or less hoary 
with short soft white hairs, which are often arranged in two 
opposite lines. Leaves petiolate, close-set, horiz: tally spread- 
ing, uniform, 4-ltin. long, 4-4in. broad, ellip .c-oblong or 
obovate-oblong, apiculate, slightly truncate at the base, pale- 
green, coriaceous, nerveless, margins edged with a white 
pubescent line, midrib prominent beneath; petioles short, erect 
and appressed to the branch. Racemes numerous near the 
tips of the branches, short, 1-14in. long, erect, glabrous or 
nearly so, laxly 4-12-flowered ; pedicels slender, each with a small 
lanceolate bract at the base. Flowers large, +-2in. diam., white or 
white with purple lines, sweet-scented. Calyx }4+in. long, 4-par- 
tite; segments ovate, acute or acuminate. Corolla-tube slightly 
longer than the calyx; limb large, 4-lobed; lobes spreading, ovate. 
Capsule +in. long, broadly ovate, acute, twice as long as the calyx.— 
A. Rich. Fl. Now. Zel. 189; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 379; Raoul, 
Choix, 43; Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 58; Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 198; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 209; Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 
351; Kirk wm Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. 526. V. decussata, Azt. 
Hort. Kew, i. 20; Bot. Mag. t. 242. 
Var. odora, Cheesem.—Smaller, 2-4 ft. high, sparingly fastigiately branched. 
Leaves smaller and more closely placed, horizontally spreading, 4-2in. long, 
about }in. broad, elliptic-ovate, rigid, somewhat concave. Flowers large, 
white, 4in. diam., very sweet-scented. Calyx-segments obtuse.—V. odora, Hook. 
jf. #l. Antarct. i. 62, t. 41. 
SoutH Istanp: Western coast from West Wanganui and Cape Foulwind 
southwards; east and southern coasts of Otago. CHATHAM IsuaANDS: H. H. 
Travers! Capt.G. Mair! Svrewarr Istanpd: Not uncommon on the coast, also 
on the islands in Foveaux Strait and on The Snares. AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL 
[Isnanps: Abundant. Var. odora: Auckland Islands, in woods near the sea, 
not uncommon, Sir J. D. Hooker. December—January. 
A most distinct species, easily recognised by the pale-green elliptic apicu- 
late petiolate leaves, and very large white flowers. It is also a native of the 
Falkland Islands, Fuegia, and South Chili. I have ventured to refer to it the 
V. odora of Hook. f., a plant which is only known by the description and plate 
in the ‘‘Flora Antarctica.’”’ In the Handbook Hooker reduced it to V. buaz- 
folia, a view which was also adopted by Kirk (Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. 524). 
But judging from the description and plate, for I have seen no authentic speci- 
mens, it cannot possibly be placed with that plant, which differs altogether in 
habit, in the smaller densely imbricated shining leaves, in the shorter racemes 
with large concave bracts, and in the smaller flowers, which I have never 
