ScropMarinea.] flora of Tasmania. 199 
Distrib. Extratropical Australia ; New Zealand ; temperate Xorth ami South America: 
Land; South Africa. (Often scarcely to be distinguished from the European form.) 
Gen. VII. VERONICA, L. 
Calyx 3-5-partitus. Corolla rotata v. breviter carapanulata, 4-loba ; laciniifl patcntilms, latcralibtis 
ssepe angustioribus. Stamina 2, ad latera lacinise superioris inserta. Styhu elongatua ; stigmata mbotpi- 
tato. Capsula compressa, bisulcata; carpellis dorso loculicide dchisceutibus, marginibus intl.-xis coluinna' 
placentiferae adhserentibus v. ab ea septicide solutis; v. capsula septicida cum columna placentifera bipar- 
tibilis. {BentL in DC. P?Wr.)— Herbas, frutices, v. rarius arbores; foliis opjxmtil, 
latisve, jloralibus alternis bracteaformibus ; floribus srepius speri»*i*, raeemosis : ra- ■ 
'jus, ,i.v''laribus terminalibusve. 
This, which is one of the largest and most conspicuous genera of New Zealand, is comparaiiwly scarce in 
Australia and Tasmania, where however upwards of eighteen species have been discovered, all of tin-... « xtratropical. 
and the majority natives of the south-east quarter of the continent and Tasmania, and none of then, arc found in 
any other part of the world.-Small trees, shrubs, or creeping herbs, with opposite, exstipulate leaves and race- 
mose, often blue flowers. Calyx generally quadripartite. Corolla rotate or campanula!.', with a wry short tube 
deeply four-lobed; lateral lobes generally smaller than the others, sometimes with the lower lube sn, 
two ; filaments slender; anthers two-celled. Style slender, with a small, capitate -n- 
the sacred picture ; because the flowers of a European species were -aid to hear a r. i 
§ 1. Capsule turgid ; dehiscence s/pfiridal. Voice* often bijul. *ey»r 
1. Veronica formosa (Br. Prodr. 43d); fruticosa, minis bifariam pilosuhs, f..ln> \-; mie. lo.igis. 
confertis brevissime petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis elliptieisve acutis acuminata e integemmis -n<r\n> g a- 
bris, racemis in apicibus ramulorum paucifloris laxe subcorymbosis, sepalis angusb lanceolatis acutisv* 
ciliatis glabratisve, capsula calyce duplo longiore valvis a columna centrali vix seccdentibus.— 2te«///. M 
DC. Prodr. x. 462. {Gunn, 527.) 
Hab. Common on rocky hills in various parts of the Colony, ascending to 3500 feet.— (Fl. Oct.- 
Dec.) („.„.) 
A remarkably beautiful evergreen shrub, covered at the flowering s« ascn with lovely Ida. t oh 
giately branched, 2 feet high ; branches with two lines of pubescence. 
small, i-f inch long, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or elliptical, quite ent 
in subterminal racemes, f inch across. Sepals often fringed with glandular hairs. 
2. Veronica labiata (B, Prodr. 434) ; erecta, glaberrima v. minute puberula, foliis subsessilibn 
lanceolatis v. ovato-lanceolatis longe acuminatis caudatisve argute serratis aub-S-5- 
superioribus elongatis multifloris, sepalis Ianceolato-subulatis corolla, tubum superantibus cap>„.a ova* 
obtusiuscula valvis a columna centrali secedentibus.-2M May. I. 3461; Beat!, m DC. 1 rodr. x. 463 
V. Derwentii, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 531. {Gunn, 2.) 
Han. Abundant in many places, especially on the northern and central parts of the Island.-(11 
^ VxLl New South Wales, Victoria, and islands of Bass' Straits. (Cultivated in England.) 
, about 3 feet high, sparingly branched, almost da 
-beautiful, half-shrubby, erect species, 
hes robust. Leaves ; 
arply serrated. Raceme* rerj abundantly produced, solitary in the axils of I 
