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young branchlets semi-compressed, always dark red, very minutely roughish 
but not villous. Leaves opposite, decussate, distant, 6-8 lines apart, 1-1} 
inch long, 6-8 lines broad, petiolate, broadly-lanceolate elliptic and sub- 
rhomboidal, obtuse, very coriaceous; colour a lively light green, both 
surfaces covered with very fine pale spots, midrib and veins obscure, primary 
veins opposite, veinlets reticulated, margins rough and coloured red with 
minute tubercles. Flowers light-vermillion red, single, suberect, expanding 
freely, 1} inch long, axillary on short stout peduncles.  Calyz-tube conical, 
2 lines long, limb very shallow, with 4 small teeth at the angles of the 
corolla. Corolla 4-angled at base and throughout two-thirds of its length, 
up to the insertion of the filaments, broadest at base, gradually contracted 
upwards, terete and swollen above. Petals somewhat linear, free, semi- 
transparent, 2 lines broad at base, constricted at one-third of length from 
apex and there 1 line broad, obtuse and subspathulate at top, and grooved 
within for the anther. Filaments stout, flat. Anthers long, linear. Style 
very long, longer than anthers, straight. Stigma dark red, globular, slightly 
cleft, and finely papillose. 
Hab. Parasitical on Fagus solandri (and other trees), Forty-mile Bush, 
near Norsewood, Hawke’s Bay district, North Island; flowering in Novem- 
ber, 1876-1882: W.C. 
Obs. I.—This is a fine bushy species, very full of branches, leaves, and 
flowers. It extends 5-6 feet each way in front from the tree in which it 
grows, and sometimes runs 9-10 feet in length, clasping the tree right 
round in several places, and thus appearing as if it were composed of two 
or three separate plants. Its leaves are usually disfigured with small round 
and raised hard swellings, which lumps appear on both sides, always punc- 
tured on the one side; sometimes 2-6-8 on a single leaf, the work of some 
insect. 
Obs. IT.— This plant has been long known to me, but, I fear, too often 
confounded with L. tetrapetalus (from my not having before seen it in its 
proper season of flowering, and through lack of close examination), to which 
species it is nearly allied, and in many respects closely resembles.  Dissec- 
tion, however, reveals its important differential characters, as given 
above. 
Orver LIII. SCROPHULARINE A. 
Genus 7. "Veronica, Linn. 
Veronica trisepala, sp. nov 
Shrub small, glabrous, 2-8 feet high, with habit of V. buxifolia. Branch- 
lets pubescent, transversely and regularly scarred 2 lines apart; hairs very 
thick and short, reddish, patent; bark light-reddish-brown. Leaves opposite, 
decussate, 4-8 lines long, 1j line broad, glabrous, not shining, oblong- 
