352 Transactions.— Botany. 
Hab.—South Island: Hector’s Col, Mount Aspiring Range. Alt. 
5,000 feet—Buchanan and McKay, 1881. On open ridgey patches where the 
snows melt in summer. Allied to V. bidwillii in size and form of leaves, 
but entirely different in their fascicular arrangement, and the absence of 
flowering racemes. 
Named in compliment to the distinguished botanist Baron von Mueller. 
Plate XXXIL., fig. 1, plant nat. size; 2, flower; 3, capsule; 4, cap- 
sule, with pistil; 5, different forms of leaf. : | 
Notes on the genus Veronica.—This beautiful family of plants has suffered 
much by the settlement of the Lake districts, few being now seen on the 
river flats where they were once abundant. A few collected previously in 
1862 were not seen at this time, although it is probable they may still be q 
found in the more inaccessible parts of the mountains. The large orna- 
mental shrub, Veronica cupressoides, once abundant, and often cultivated in 
gardens, is now rare. The alpine forms are apparently safe, being chiefly 
found on barren ground with a sparse vegetation where fires do not run. 
The highest altitude to which any of this genus reaches was on Mount 
Alta, where Veronica buchanani was collected at 7,500 feet. The following 
is a list of those collected at this time :—Veronica haastii, V. buaifolia, V- 
pimeleoides, V. buchanani, V. canescens, V. linifolia, V. salicifolia, V. ligustri- 
folia, V. macrantha, V. bidwillii, V. raoulii, V. tetragona, V. hectori, V. colensot, 
V. levis. 
Pygmea ciliolata, Hook. fil. 
A hoary moss-like plant, 1 inch high, foe compacted patches on the 
ground. Branches with the leaves on 4 inch diameter. Leaves densely 
imbricate, } inch long, obovate and rounded at top, entire, ciliate on the 
margins and nearly glabrous on both surfaces, 1-veined. Flowers it inch 
long, terminal on the branches. Sepals shorter than the corolla tube. 
Hab.—Mount Alta, 6,000 feet alt.—Buchanan and McKay, 1881. 
Plate XXXII., fig. 1, plant nat. size; 1 a, flower, enlarged $3 1% 
leaf enlarged $. 
Pygmea pulvinaris, Hook. fil. 
A. white very hoary moss-like plant, 1 inch high, forming compacted 
patches on the ground. Branches with the leaves on $ inch diameter. 
Leaves densely imbricate 4, inch long, narrow linear oblong, obtuse, 
upper half covered on both surfaces with white hairs, 1-veined. Flowers 
heotly “pedeiled; aegis: lowed -cbbane, -omaly-ae lang. a ane ee 
tube. 
Hab—Mount Alta, 6,000 fet alt—Buckanam and McKay. : 
Plate XXX Bes peaetce vas 2a, devs cme #4 ab% 
