Veromea. | SCROPHULARINES. 535 
A well-marked species. The var. macrocalyx principally differs in its more 
branched and trailing habit, longer and narrower leaves, which are not so 
coriaceous when dry, longer and narrower bracts and calyx-segments, and 
shorter narrower corolla. Mr. N. E. Brown is inclined to treat it as a distinct 
species, but it appears to me to be connected with the type by intermediate 
forms. 
59. V. epacridea, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 213.—A small 
much-branched prostrate or decumbent rigid shrub; stems woody, 
tortuous, 3-12in. long; branches curved, ascending at the tips, 
densely leafy, obscurely tetragonous, +-$in. diam. with the leaves 
on, glabrous or pubescent above. Leaves closely quadrifariously 
imbricated, opposite pairs connate at the base, spreading and re- 
curved, $-tin. long, broadly oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse or 
subacute, concave in front, keeled at the back, rigid, very coria- 
ceous; margins usually red, thickened, ciliate towards the base. 
Flowers small, white, densely packed in terminal ovoid heads 
4-lin. long, formed of numerous reduced spikes in the axils of 
leafy bracts. Bracts obovate or ovate to linear-obovate, ciliate. 
Calyx deeply 4-partite, segments unequal, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
ciliate. Corolla-tube long, narrow, equalling the calyx; limb 
small, fin. diam., 4-lobed; lobes ovate, acute, spreading or re- 
curved. Capsule small, ovoid- oblong, exceeding the calyx.— 
Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii. (1881) 350; Cockayne in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xxxi. (1899) 380 (development of seedling). 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Gordon’s Nob, Mount Arthur and Mount Peel, 
mountains above the Wairau Gorge, 7. F. C.; Tarndale, Sinclair; mountains 
flanking the Clarence and Waiau Valleys, Travers, Kirk! T. F.C. Canter- 
bury — Mount Torlesse and Broken River Basin, Hnys! Kirk! Cockayne! 
T. #.C.; Ashburton Valley, Godley Glacier, Mount Darwin, Haast; Mount 
Dobson, 7. #7. C. Otago—Mount Arnould, Petrie ! 3000-6500 ft. Decem- 
ber—February. ; 
Very close to V. Haastii, and there are forms which are quite intermediate, 
but in the usual state it is easily separated by the smaller size, sharply recurved 
leaves, and ciliate bracts and calyx-segments. 
60. V. Petriei, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 
517.—A decumbent or prostrate sparingly branched woody little 
plant; branches ascending, 3-6in. long. Leaves not close-set, 
spreading, +-4in. long, oblong or linear-oblong, rounded at the 
apex, narrowed into a short broad petiole, flat, slightly coriaceous, 
glabrous or the margins minutely glandular-ciliate ; the opposite 
petioles connate at the base and forming a short sheath clasp- 
ing the branch. Flowering branches clothed with numerous erect 
linear or linear-lanceolate foliaceous obtuse bracts, each branch 
ending in a narrow-oblong many-flowered spiciform head 4-14 in. 
long. Flowers small, 4-1in. diam., solitary and sessile in the 
axils of the bracts, which slightly exceed the calyx. Calyx 
deeply 4-5-partite; segments very unequal in size, linear, ob- 
tuse, minutely ciliate. Corolla hardly exceeding the calyx; tube 
