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Has. Northern and Middle Islands. Cook’s Straits, D’ Urville. Abundant on the southern coasts, 
and in the interior of the Northern Island, Bidwill, Colenso. Nelson, from the sea to 3000 feet, Bidwill. 
Nat. name, “ Koromiko," Bidwill (also given to all the shrubby species). Fl. all summer. Var. 8. Nelson; 
abundant, Bidwill. 
This in its typical form appears a most distinct species, the foliage being of the small size of Y, ligustrifolia, 
but more coriaceous, narrower, short and keeled, while the flowers are much smaller, on very stout pedicels, and 
more dense ;. but I have some specimens with larger, looser-packed flowers, and others with plane leaves, very like 
those of Y, ligustrifolia. —A shrub 6 feet high. Branches black. Leaves 1-23 inches long, + broad, linear, sharp or 
mucronate, coriaceous, concave, keeled. Racemes axillary, generally rather short and thick. Flowers pale lilac, 
crowded on short pedicels, tubular, + inch long. Sepals oblong, blunt, much shorter than the tube of the corolla 
and than the broad capsule, which is two lines long, but variable. 
8. Veronica pubescens, Banks et Sol.; fruticosa, foliis undique pilis brevibus rufo-fulvis obtectis 
oblongo-lanceolatis integerrimis villosis, racemis axillaribus multifloris, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis 
hirtis, capsula ovata subacuta calycem duplo superante. Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. Benth. l c. 
Has. Northern Island. Opuragi, in woods, Banks and Solander. 
A shrub 6 feet high, covered everywhere when dry with red-brown hairs. Leaves 1-2 inches long, oblong- 
lanceolate. Racemes axillary, many-flowered ; sepals oblong, lanceolate, sharp, hairy, half the length of the capsules. 
—This very distinct species has not been found since Cook’s first voyage. 
$ b. Shrubs or small trees, with coriaceous, perennial, decussate, crowded or imbricate, uniform, veinless, quite entire, 
flat or keeled leaves, often giving the branches a square appearance. Racemes axillary or terminal, corym- 
bose, rarely solitary. Capsule septicidal; valves bifid. : 
9. Veronica diosmefolia, A. Cunn.; fruticosa, glaberrima, foliis breviter petiolatis lanceolatis oblongis 
ellipticisve acutis rigidis glaberrimis v. remote glanduloso-denticulatis, racemis brevibus ad apices ramorum 
corymboso-ramosis, sepalis 3 obtusis supremo latissimo, inferioribus ovatis corolle tubum eeguantibus, cap- 
sula calyce duplo longiore. 4. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. sub t. 3461. et Prodr. Benth. l.c. 
Has. Northern Island. Bay of Islands, and Hokianga, Cunningham, Edgerley, etc. 
A slender shrub, 3-12 feet high; much branched. Branches strict, leafy. Leaves decussate, closely placed, 
spreading, concave and keeled, elliptical or oblong, 4—1 inch long. Racemes short, in corymbs towards the ends of 
the branches. Flowers numerous, small, white. Calyx 1 line long, of three sepals ; upper very broad, lower as long 
as the tube of the corolla, half as long as the capsule. Seeds few, large, much compressed. 
10. Veronica Menziesii, Benth. ; fruticosa, glaberrima, foliis breviter petiolatis oblongis lineari-ob- 
longisve acutis rigidis, racemis brevibus ad apices ramorum corymboso-ramosis, sepalis 4 lanceolatis sub- 
acutis capsula dimidio brevioribus. Benth. l. c. 
Has. Middle Island. Dusky Bay, Menzies. Nelson, Bidwill. 
Very similar to Y. diosmefolia.—A shrub, with oblong acute petiolate leaves, which are rigid and sharp. Ra- 
cemes short, corymbose. lowers purplish-white. Sepals four, lanceolate, sharp, half the length of the capsule.— 
Mr. Bidwill's specimens are from a garden in Nelson, into which the plants were brought from the neighbourhood. 
ll. Veronica eliptica, Forst. ; fruticosa v. arborea, glabra, v. ramulis puberulis canisve, foltis brevis- 
sime petiolatis ovali- v. oblongo-ellipticis mucronatis integerrimis, racemis axillaribus brevibus paucifloris 
rarius corymboso-ramosis, sepalis 4 ovatis marginatis acutis corolle tubo paulo brevioribus, capsulis late 
ovatis. Forst. Prodr. Benth. in DC. Prodr. Fl. Antarct. V. decussata, Hort. Kew. Bot. Mag. t. 242. 
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