VERONICA 635 



to 4000 ft. altitude in New Zealand, and is one of the hardiest members 01 

 this group. It flowers annually, but not freely. 



V. CARNOSULA, Hooker fit. 



A shrub usually more or less prostrate, and rarely more than i ft. high 

 with us, occasionally 3 ft. high in New Zealand, young shoots with a vertical 

 strip of down above each leaf-axil. Leaves glaucous green, scoop-shaped, 

 obovate, pointed; \ to f in. long, j to in. wide; narrowing to a stalkless 

 base, closely superposed in four rows. Flowers densely crowded in spikes 

 near the end of the shoot, the whole forming a dense terminal cluster; 

 flower-stalks very downy. Flowers j in. across, white; sepals erect, as long 

 or rather longer than the corolla-tube, edged with minute hairs. Ovary, 

 style, and seed-vessel free from down, the last pointed. 



Native of the South Island of New Zealand up to 4500 ft. altitude. It 

 is a very pleasing little evergreen, making low densely leafy tufts of a 

 striking glaucous hue, and of neat appearance. It is also one of the hardiest 

 of this group. Nearly allied to V. pinguifolia (q.v.}. 



V. CUPRESSOIDES, Hooker fil. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 7348.) 



A shrub usually seen I to 3 ft. high in this country, but said to be as 

 much as 6 ft. in a native state. It has a rounded, dense habit, much like 

 that of a dwarf cypress or juniper, the branches being very much forked and 

 subdivided, the final ramifications very slender and short (^ to i in. long). 

 Branchlets about ^ in. thick, often minutely downy. Leaves on adult 

 plants scale-like, about ^ in. long, smooth except for minute hairs on the 

 margin, rounded at the apex; they do not, as in Hectori and lycopodioides, 

 completely hide the stem, although usually appressed to it; the bases of 

 each pair are united and clasp the stem. In young plants (occasionally on 

 odd branches of older ones), the leaves are as much as \ in. long, narrowly 

 oblong, ovate or somewhat obovate, and vary from entire to irregularly 

 or pinnately lobed, pointed and distinctly stalked. Flowers pale blue, \ in. 

 diameter, produced three to eight together at the ends of the branches in 

 a small head about midsummer. 



Native of the South Island of New Zealand; long cultivated. It is fairly 

 hardy, but in my experience does not flower freely. It is worth growing for 

 its neat appearance and remarkable cypress-like growth one of many 

 instances of curious " mimicry " in plants. 



V. DARWIN IAN A, Colenso. DARWIN'S SPEEDWELL. 



(V. glaucophylla, Cockayne.'} 



A shrub up to 3 ft. or probably more high, branches erect, smooth except 

 for a strip of down above each leaf-axil when young. Leaves in four super- 

 posed rows, oval-lanceolate, pointed, scarcely stalked, to in. long, J- to 

 \ in. wide; slightly concave, somewhat glaucous on both surfaces; quite 

 smooth except for some minute hairs on the margins^ when young. Racemes 

 usually in one or two pairs near the tops of the branches, f to i^ ins. long; 

 flowers densely arranged, white, in. diameter. Sepals broadly ovate, 

 about as long as the corolla - tube, which is downy within the throat. 

 Individual flower-stalks scarcely so long as the calyx, and, like the main- 

 stalk of the raceme, downy. 



