Nov. 1891.] THE BOTAXICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 195 



Dr Robert Hartig, Professor of Forestry, Munich. 

 Dr Edouard de Kegel, Director of the Imperial Botanic 

 Garden, St Petersburg. 



Ordinary Fellows — 14. 



Thomas Berwick. 

 Richard Brown, C.A. 

 Alexander Edington, M.B. 

 George Hunter, ]\I.D.,r.R.C.S.E. 

 Thomas Jamieson, F.I.C. 

 J. Melvin Lowson, B.Sc. 

 David Prain, M.D. 



Corresponding Fellow — 1. 

 Augustine Henry, M.D. 



Associates — 3. 



James Macandrew. James Shaw 



Robert A.Robertson, M.A., B.Sc. 



William G. Smith. 



J. Pentland Smith, B.Sc. 



W.j\Iaxwell Tress. 



R. B. White of Ardarroch. 



John Wilson, D.Sc. 



J. C. Wright, F.R.S.E. 



Charles Taylor. 



And the numerical strength of the Society is now the 



following : — 



Honorary Fellows, 31. 

 Ordinary Fellows, 313. 

 Corresponding Members, 63. 



Lady Associates, 9. 

 Associates, 31. 



Giving a total Membership of 447. 



I have had some difficulty in selecting a topic on which 

 to malve a few remarks before demitting the office to which 

 you called me ; but I have chosen a subject to which I have 

 given some attention for a few years past, viz., New Zealand 

 Veronicas, and which I now beg to submit to your notice. 



The genus Veronica is by far the largest of flowering 

 plants in New Zealand : nowhere else is the genus so abun- 

 dantly represented, and in no other country do so many large 

 shrubby forms exist. 



A great number of these have now been introduced into 

 this country, and have been found to be admirably adapted 

 for many garden purposes. Perhaps nowhere in this country 

 are to be found so many different species of these New 

 Zealand Veronicas, thriving so well, as in the Edinburgh 

 Botanic Garden ; and a few remarks regarding their value, 

 chiefly from a horticultural point of view, may not be 

 altogether out of place here. 



There are about sixty species indigenous to New Zealand ; 

 and, with one exception, they are not found in any other 

 country. The solitary exception is Veronica elliptica, which 



