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15. Veronica pimeleoides, Hook. fil.; suffruticulus parvus, parce ramosus, ramis pubescenti-villosis, 
foliis late obovato-orbiculatis subacutis 1-3-nerviis enerviisve crassis et subcarnosis, racemis brevibus sub- 
terminalibus paucifloris lanatis, floribus brevissime petiolatis, sepalis ovatis acutis ciliatis corolle tubo longi- 
oribus capsula dimidio brevioribus, valvis capsule bifidis. 
Has. Middle Island. Port Cooper, Zyall. 
A very small shrub, a span high, resembling Pimelea prostrata. Stems woody, scarred, covered with white 
down. Leaves 2 inch long, broadly obovate, nearly sessile, wrinkled when dry, with one to three parallel nerves, or 
nerveless. Flowers in axillary or terminal villous racemes, sessile, six- to eight-flowered. —A remarkably distinct 
little species. 
16. Veronica Zavaudiana, Raoul; suffruticulus ramosus, ramis erectis v. ascendentibus laxe foliosis 
glanduloso-pubescentibus, foliis sparsis oppositis lineari- v. obovato- v. rotundato-spathulatis in petiolum an- 
gustatis obtusis crenato-dentatis coriaceis, racemis glanduloso-hirsutis ad apices ramulorum paniculatis 
corymbosisve multifloris, floribus congestis subsessilibus subdistichis, sepalis ovatis acuminatis capsulam 
brevem subzequantibus. Raoul, Choim de Plantes, p. 16. t. 10. 
Has. Middle Island. Akaroa, Raoul. Port Cooper, Lyall. 
A remarkably distinct and pretty little species, with much too loosely placed leaves to harmonize well with the 
other species of this section.—A span to a foot high; branches and racemes glandular, pubescent. Leaves spreading, 
obovate, or linear-obovate, or rounded-spathulate, blunt, crenate, coriaceous, 1 inch long. Racemes paniculate, or 
corymbose at the generally elongated ends of the branches; with small leaves at the bases of the peduncles, whence 
the branches appear paniculate. Flowers crowded, somewhat distichous, sessile. Sepals ovate, acute, nearly as long 
as the small coriaceous blunt capsule, whose valves are bifid. 
§ c. Herbaceous, prostrate or creeping plants, with slender woody stems, and scattered, opposite, toothed, smooth 
leaves. Racemes awillary and terminal, simple, erect, solitary. Capsule broad, laterally compressed, two-lobed, 
loculicidal. 
17. Veronica cataracta, Forst.; suffruticosa, ramosa, prostrata, ramis gracilibus elongatis flexuosis 
bifariam puberulis, foliis petiolatis lanceolatis lineari-lanceolatisve grosse serratis crassis discoloribus glabris 
l-nerviis, racemis elongatis puberulis longe pedunculatis, pedicellis gracilibus puberulis, sepalis late ovatis 
oblongisve acutis, floribus amplis, capsulis turgidis late obcordatis bilobis. Forst. Prodr. A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Benth. l.c. 
Var. B. lanceolata; foliis anguste lineari-lanceolatis petiolatis calloso-serratis. V. lanceolata, Benth. /. c. 
Var. y. minor; gracilis, foliis uncialibus lanceolatis, racemis minoribus. 
Has. Mountains of the Northern Island, and in the Southern and Middle Islands; abundant, Forster, 
Dieffenbach, Lyall. 
A very handsome but extremely variable species, of which I have superb specimens from Dr. Lyall’s Herbarium, 
collected in Dusky Bay.—Stems 4 inches to 24 feet long, slender, with two lines of pubescence. Leaves 3-4 inches 
long, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, petiolate, acuminate, coarsely serrate, coriaceous, one-nerved, pale below. Ra- 
cemes axillary, on slender peduncles, 8-6 inches long, many-flowered. Flowers loosely disposed, on slender pedicels 
3 inch long. Sepals ovate or lanceolate, blunt, acute, or acuminate. Corolla $—$ inch across. Capsule turgid, + 
inch broad, two-lobed.—The Northern-Island specimens are all smaller than those from Dusky Bay; some are quite 
small, and approach states of the following closely allied species. 
18. Veronica diffusa, Hook. fil.; caule prostrato suffruticoso elongato diffuso, ramis flexuoso-ascen- 
dentibus glabris v. tenuissime bifariam puberulis, foliis brevissime petiolatis ovatis ovato-lanceolatisve grosse 
calloso-serratis basi rotundatis crassiusculis glabris, racemis longe pedunculatis simplicibus axillaribus pube- 
