534 SCROPHULARINES. [ Veronica. 
ones) ;4,-}in. long, linear-oblong to oblong or oblong-spathulate, 
acute, narrowed into short free petioles, entire or irregularly lobulate 
or pinnatifid. Flowers small, 4-4in. diam., pale bluish-purple or 
rarely white, sessile or nearly so, 3-8 near the tips of the branchlets, 
forming small terminal heads. Calyx unequally 4-lobed; lobes 
short, oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube very short; lobes spreading, 
dorsal the largest, oblong-obovate, anticous the smallest, linear- 
oblong. Capsule small, ;5in. long, about twice as long as the 
calyx, linear-obovoid or narrow cuneate-obovoid, retuse at the tip.— 
Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 351; N. H. Brown wm Gard. 
Chron. (1888) vol. i. 20, t. 4 and 6; Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. 
(1896) 520. 
SoutH Isuanp: Nelson—Upper Wairau Valley, Sinclair, T. F'. C.; Lake 
‘Nennyson, 7’. F. C.; Fowler’s Pass and Stanley River, Kirk! Waiau Valley, 
Travers! Canterbury—Broken River basin, Hnys! Kirk! T. F. C.; Harper’s 
Pass and Ashburton Valley, Haast! Otago—Lindis Pass and Lake district, 
Hector and Buchanan! Lammerlaw Hills, Petrie ! 2000-4500 ft. Decem- 
ber—February. 
A very remarkable species, easily distinguished by its cypress-like appearance, 
very slender branchlets, small scale-like leaves in remote pairs, and small narrow 
obovoid capsules. 
58. V. Haastii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 213.—A prostrate or 
decumbent much or sparingly branched glabrous shrub, black when 
dry ; stems woody, tortuous, 4-12in. long; branches ascending, 
densely uniformly leafy, obscurely tetragonous, 4—3in. diam. with 
the leaves on. Leaves closely quadrifariously imbricated, opposite 
pars connate at the very base, spreading or suberect, +4 in. long, 
broadly oblong to obovate, obtuse, concave in front, not keeled at 
the back, fleshy when fresh, extremely coriaceous and rigid when 
dry; margins ciliate at the very base. Flowers small, white, most 
densely compacted in terminal ovoid heads 4-14 in. long, formed of 
numerous reduced spikes in the axils of leafy bracts. Bracts 
oblong or ovate-oblong, about equalling the calyx. Calyx 
4-partite; segments linear-oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube longer 
than the limb, rather shorter than the calyx; limb exserted, $in. 
diam., 4-lobed; lobes ovate, subacute. Capsule about equalling 
the calyx, ovoid-oblong, acute.—Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. 
(1881) 350. 
Var. macrocalyx.—Much more copiously branched, prostrate and trailing, 
brown when dry. Leaves 4—-%in. long, obovate or broadly obovate-spathulate, 
obtuse, bright-green and fleshy when fresh. Bracts lanceolate or linear, acute. 
Calyx-segments linear, obtuse or subacute, almost equalling the corolla. 
Corolla-tube longer than the narrow limb.—V. macrocalyx, Armstr. in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 383. 
SourH Isnanp: Nelson—Mount Arthur, 7. F. C. Canterbury—Mount 
Torlesse and Mount Dobson, Haast, T. F'. C.; mountains above the Broken River, 
Hnys! T. F. C.; Mount Darwin and Mount Cook, Haast. Var. macrocalys : 
Mount Rolleston and Waimakariri Glacier, Armstrong! 1. F. C., Cockayne ! 
Rangitata Valley, Armstrong. 3500-6500 ft. December-February. 
