Veronica. | SCROPHULARINES. 545 
thick and coriaceous, glabrous, dark-green. Racemes many- 
flowered, on strict erect densely pubescent lateral peduncles 3-5 in. 
long; pedicels 4-4 in. long, slender. Flowers }-4in. diam., white 
with pink veins. Calyx deeply 4-partite ; segments broadly ovate, 
obtuse, margins ciliolate. Corolla-tube very short, limb with 4 
rounded spreading lobes. Stamens shorter than the corolla-lobes. 
Capsule broadly oblong, turgid, emarginate, one-third as long 
again as the calyx. 
Norrx Istanp: Ruahine Range, Colenso! Olsen! Petrie! 2000-4000 ft. 
December—March. 
I retain this as a species for the present, although far from satisfied as 
to its distinctness from V. Hookeriana, from which it differs mainly in the more 
slender mode of growth, glabrous leaves, more slender and less pubescent many- 
flowered racemes, and in the narrower capsule. It is apparently intermediate 
between V. Hookeriana and V. Lyallii. 
79. V. spathulata, Benth. in D.C. Prodr. x. 477.— A small 
prostrate excessively branched pubescent little plant, forming dense 
patches 3-9in. across; branches short, stout, ascending, leaty, 
clothed with crisped white hairs. Leaves crowded, spreading, 
petiolate, 4-4in. long including the petiole, ovate-spathulate or 
deltoid-spathulate, obtuse, coarsely crenate or crenate-lobed, thick 
and coriaceous, black when dry, more or less hairy on both sur- 
faces ; petiole about as long as the blade, broad, channelled. 
Peduncles near the tips of the branches, short, stout, pubescent, 
equalling the leaves or nearly twice as long as them, 2—5-flowered ; 
bracts foliaceous, and with the pedicels and calyces densely 
pubescent. Flowers +in. diam., white. Calyx 4-partite ; segments 
oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube short; limb broad, 
4-lobed, lobes rounded. Stamens 2, shorter than the corolla-lobes. 
Capsule equalling or slightly exceeding the calyx, broadly obcordate, 
pubescent.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.i. 197; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 216; 
Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 349. V. vulcanica, Col. in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx. (1888) 203. V. subrosulata, Col. l.c. xxxi. 
(1899) 278. 
Nortu Isuanp: Tongariro, Bidwill; Ruapehu, V'ryon! Hill! Petrie! 
Rev. F. H. Spencer! Ruahine Mountains, Hill ! 3000-6000 ft. 
Nearest to V. Hookeriana, but more depressed and much more branched, 
leaves spathulate on longer petioles, peduncles much shorter, and capsule 
broader and obcordate. 
50. V. plebeia, R. Br. Prodr. 435.—Stems slender, leafy, pro- 
strate and rooting, much and diffusely branched, elongated, 1-3 ft. 
long, usually minutely pubescent. Leaves on rather long petioles ; 
blade $-lin. long, broadly ovate or deltoid, obtuse or subacute, 
cordate or truncate at the base, coarsely and irregularly acutely 
toothed, 3-nerved, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Racemes lateral, 
axillary, pedunculate, 2-5in. long, slender, loosely 5—10-flowered ; 
18—FI. 
