532 SCROPHULARINEZ. | Veronica. 
SourH Isuanp: Nelson—Mount Arthur and Mount Owen, 7’. F’. C.; Mount 
Owen and Brunner Range, Townson ! 3500-5000 ft. January—March, 
I describe this as a new species with some hesitation. It appears to be 
intermediate in characters between V. Hectori and V. Armstrongii, but is much 
more slender and more copiously branched than the first, and from the latter it 
differs in being stouter, and in the shorter and broader tightly appressed leaves, 
which do not form the lax obconic sheaths so characteristic of V. Armstrongii. 
54. V. salicornioides, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 212.—A small 
much-branched shrub 1-3{ft. high; branches strict, erect, terete, 
clothed with imbricating leaves, j,-;4 1m. diam., yellowish-brown 
when dry. Leaves most densely imbricated and appressed to the 
branch, opposite pairs connate to considerably above the middle 
and forming a ring surrounding the branch, ;.—;4 in. long, subacute 
or almost truncate, concave in front, rounded at the back; margins 
usually ciliolate. Leaves of young plants not seen. Flowers 4-8 
towards the tips of the branchlets. forming small terminal heads ; 
rhachis villous. Bracts short and broad, ciliolate. Calyx-segments 
oblong, obtuse, margins ciliolate. Corolla white, }in. diam.; tube 
short; limb 4-lobed, lobes spreading. Capsule longer than the 
calyx, subcompressed, oblong, obtuse, glabrous.—Armstr. in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 352; N. H. Brown in Gard. Chron. (1888) 
vol. i. p. 20, f. 3. 
Souru Istanp: Nelson—Cobb Valley, #. G. Gibbs! Wairau Mountains, 
Rough, Travers; Wairau Gorge, T. #'.C.; Mount Charon (Hanmer), Cockayne ! 
Canterbury—Rangitata Valley, Haast, Armstrong. 2500-5000 ft. January— 
March. 
This has been much misunderstood, the name having been erroneously 
applied, both in England and in the colony, to the plant described herein as 
V. propinqua, from which it differs in the more erect habit, in the stouter strict 
branches, and in the more closely placed broader and shorter leaves. 
55. V. Armstrongii, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xi. (1879) 
464.—A small much-branched shrub 1-3 ft. high ; branches spread- 
ing, often flabellate; branchlets very numerous, slender, terete, 
clothed with appressed imbricating leaves, j,-;, in. diam. Leaves 
of mature plants closely imbricating, appressed but not very closely 
so, about ;4,in. long, opposite pairs connate for the greater part of 
their length, forming a sheath investing the branch which is wider 
at the top than the base, and thus almost obconic in shape, truncate 
or nearly so at the apex, tumid and coriaceous, smooth and rounded 
on the back, margins usually ciliolate. Leaves of young plants 
(frequently produced by reversion on old ones as well) spreading, 
z+ in. long, linear, acute, flat, entire or irregularly lobulate. 
Flowers 4-1 in. diam., white, 4-8 or more towards the tips of the 
branchlets, forming small terminal heads; rhachis villous. Calyx- 
segments unequal, oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. | Corolla-tube short, 
about equalling the calyx; lobes spreading. Capsule jin. long, 
