Veronica. | SCROPHULARINEZ:. 539 
Soutn IsnaANnp: Marlborough—Lower Wairau, Travers, Monro; Macrae’s 
Run, Monro; Awatere Valley, MacMahon! Kirk! Kaikoura Mountains, 
Sinclair, Buchanan! Kirk! Canterbury — Hills in the northern part of the 
province, Armstrong! Var. oblonga: Marlborough —Awatere Valley, Kirk! 
J. H. MacMahon! Mount Fyffe, Cockayne! Sea-level to 3000 ft. November- 
December. 
A handsome species, better known in cultivation than in a wild state. Mr. 
H. J. Matthews informs me that the var. Fairfieldii, which was described as a 
distinct species by Hooker, originally appeared in the Fairfield Gardens, near 
Dunedin, where many species of Veronica are cultivated, and has never been 
found in a wild state. It is probably a hybrid between V. Hulkeana and 
V. Lavaudiana. 
67. V. Lavaudiana, Raoul, Choia Pl. Nouv. Z%el. 16, t. 10.— 
A small sparingly branched shrub 3-9in. high; branches rather 
stout, decumbent at the base, then erect, leafy, terete, glabrous 
below. puberulous above. Leaves rather crowded, spreading, 4-1 in. 
long, broadly obovate or obovate-spathulate, rounded at the tip, 
gradually narrowed into a short stout petiole, crenate-serrate, very 
coriaceous, dark-green usually margined with red. Spikes short, 
4-3in. long, arranged in a broad hemispherical many-flowered 
corymb sometimes 2in. diam. or more; peduncle rather long, 
erect, and with the pedicels glandular-pubescent ; bracts ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, pilose and ciliate. Flowers small, sessile, +-41n. 
diam. Calyx 4-partite; segments ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
pubescent. Corolla-tube rather longer than the calyx; lobes 4, 
spreading, unequal, obtuse. Capsule exceeding the calyx, oblong, 
obtuse, pubescent.—Hook. f. Hl. Nov. Zel. i. 195; Handb. N.Z. 
Fl. 214; Bot. Mag. t. 7210; Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii. 
(1881) 350. 
SoutH Isnanp: Canterbury—Abundant in rocky places on Banks Penin- 
sula, Raowl, Lyall, &c.; river-beds of the Canterbury Plains, rare, Lyall, 
Travers, Armstrong ! Sea-level to 2500 ft. November—December. 
68. V. Raoulii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 214.—A stout much- 
branched woody little shrub 4-12in. high; branches often pro- 
cumbent below, terete, ringed with the scars of the fallen leaves, 
leafy above, pubescent. Leaves spreading or suberect, 4—} in. long, 
oblong-spathulate, obtuse or acute, gradually narrowed into a 
rather long petiole, crenate-serrate, very thick and coriaceous, 
yellow-green, flat, veinless. Spikes very short, either arranged in a 
broad terminal panicle or corymb 1-2 in. across, or forming smaller 
lateral corymbs or heads; peduncles and pedicels puberulous ; 
bracts ovate, ciliolate. Flowers small. sessile, 4-1in. diam. 
Calyx 4—partite ; segments ovate-oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla- 
tube short ; lobes 4, broadly oblong, rounded. Capsule exceeding 
the calyx, oblong, obtuse.—Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 
350 ; Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxi. (1899) 3879 (development 
of seedling). 
