Veronica. | SCROPHULARINE®. 525 
obovate or almost orbicular, obtuse, very coriaceous, concave, 
not keeled, quite glabrous, nerveless or the midrib very obscure, 
glaucous; margins smooth and even. Spikes crowded near the 
ends of the branches, often forming a dense terminal head, short, 
stout, very dense-flowered; peduncle, rhachis, and bracts pubes- 
cent or almost villous ; bracts equalling the calyx, ciliolate. Flowers 
about tin. diam., sessile, white. Calyx 4-partite; segments erect, 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, slightly ciliate. Corolla-tube equalling the 
calyx or rather shorter than it; limb 4-lobed. Ovary and style 
glabrous. Capsule 4-4 in. long, ovate, acute, glabrous, compressed, 
about twice as long as the calyx.—Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xiii. (1881) 350. V. levis var. carnosula, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 
194. 
Sourn Istanp: Mountain districts from Nelson to Otago, but apparently 
not so abundant as V. pinguifolia. 2500-4500 ft. December-March. 
Very closely allied to V. pinguifolia, differing mainly in the rather larger 
ovate-acute glabrous capsule. The capsule of V. pinguwifolia is obovate-oblong, 
rounded or emarginate at the tip, and more or less pubescent. 
42. V. amplexicaulis, Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 
302.—An erect or decumbent shrub 1-3 ft. high; branches stout, 
spreading, ringed with the scars of the fallen leaves; branchlets 
terete, glabrous or puberulous. Leaves decussate, imbricate, sub- 
erect or spreading, sessile, 4-lin. long, 4-2in. broad, broadly 
oblong or elliptic-oblong, rounded at the tip, subcordate and almost 
amplexicaul at the base, very coriaceous, glaucous, concave, nerve- 
less, not keeled: margins smooth and even. Spikes 2-4 near the 
tips of the branches, 1-l4in. long, stout, oblong, very dense- 
flowered. simple or trifurcate ; peduncles stout, exceeding the leaves, 
and with the rhachis pubescent with soft spreading hairs; bracts 
large, equalling the calyx, broadly oblong, concave, obtuse, margins 
ciliate. Flowers white, +in. diam., sessile. Calyx 4-partite; 
segments erect, oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla-tube about the 
length of the calyx; limb 4-lobed; dorsal lobe the broadest, erect ; 
the other three narrow-oblong, obtuse, spreading or decurved. 
Ovary pubescent. Capsule oblong, rounded at the tip, pubescent, 
about half as long again as the calyx.— Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 7370. 
Soutu Isnanp: Canterbury—Upper Rangitata, Armstrong ! 
Closely related to V. pinguifolia, from which it differs in the larger leaves, 
which are cordate and semiamplexicaul at the base, and in the larger and 
often branched spikes. Mr. Armstrong describes the corolla-tube as ‘‘long,”’ 
but it barely equals the calyx in all the specimens I have seen, including 
an authentic one from him. 
43. V. pinguifolia, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 210.—An erect 
or decumbent much-branched glaucous shrub 6in. to 4it. high; 
branches stout, spreading, ringed with the scars of the fallen 
leaves, the younger ones bifariously pubescent. Leaves closely 
