Kinx.— Description of two New Species of Veronica, 508 
narrowed into the very broad flat petiole, obtuse or slightly mucronate, 
- Racemes two, rarely three, near the ends of the branches, much longer 
than the leaves, puberulous, loosely flowered, pedicels as long or longer 
than the calyx, calyx lobes ovate, obtuse, puberulous ; corolla small ; cap- 
sules not seen. 
Hab. : Broken River, Canterbury. Alt.: 2,000 feet. J. D. Enys and 
T. Kirk. 
Allied to V. levis, Hook., f., from which it is readily distinguished by 
the larger leaves, the lax racemes, and peculiar habit. 
Veronica canescens, n. 8. 
Plate XIX. 
A small procumbent herb, stems 1-2 inches in length, more or less 
hispid. Leaves opposite, 4-7, of an inch long, shortly petioled, broadly 
ovate, obtuse, nearly rounded at the tip, ciliated, and usually clothed on 
both surfaces with white retrorse hairs. Flowers solitary, axillary, on 
slender peduncles, i-$ inch long, with two hispid bracts near the base, 
sepals lanceolate, hispid ; corolla very large for the size of the plant ; 
capsule not seen. 
Hab.: Lake Lyndon, Canterbury. Alt.: 2,800 feet. J. D. Enys and 
T. Kirk. Oamaru District, Otago. J. Buchanan. 
This very distinct species is one of the most minute flowering plants in 
the New Zealand Flora, and is the only indigenous species which produces 
solitary axillary flowers. - 
; It is probably not uncommon, as, from the grey tint of the hispid foliage, 
it is easily overlooked, except during the flowering season, when its delicate 
but showy pale blue corolla at once attracts attention. In habit this plant 
closely approaches Anagallis tenella, L. i 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE. 
Siaa: XIX.—1. Veronica canescens, natural size. 2, Leaf. 3. Flower. 4. Pistil, 
enlarged. 
Arr. LXXIII.—On the Botany of Kawau Island: Physical featur es and 
causes influencing distribution of Species. By John Bucuanan, F.L.S. 
(Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 2nd September, 1876.) : 
Ix attempting a descriptive sketch of the botany of Kawau Island it will be 
necessary, for the better appreciation of the subject, to notice shortly some of 
