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uniformly to acicular subpungent tips, thin, glabrous, finely striate, 
flattened or slightly concave above, edges very delicately serrate at and 
‘long; flowers 10 or fewer, sessile, + 5 mm. long ; bracts several, ovate 
from broad base, shortly mucronate, strongly ciliate along edges; sepals 
one-third shorter than corolla, ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliate at edges; 
corolla-tube rather narrow, lobes ovate subacute spreading or more or less 
reflexed ; stamens as long as corolla-tube; mature capsules one-third 
shorter than sepals. 
Hab.—Roadside near mouth of Awatere River, East Cape district: 
James Adams and D. P. Edge of forest near Peria (Mongonui): Н. Carse! . 
Various stations in North Cape district: T. F. Cheeseman ! 
The species is named in honour of James Adams, whose investigation 
of the flora of the Coromandel Peninsula is a fine piece of work, an 
was my companion on a visit of some length to Mount Hikurangi, the East 
Cape district, and Tokomaru Bay. 
The leaves of this species are very characteristic, their blades having a 
very narrow triangular form, tapering uniformly from the base to the tips. 
D. strictum Hk. f. has leaves of a similar shape, but these are much broader 
and more coriaceous. Its alliance is probably with some of the congeries 
of forms united in Cheeseman's Manual (first edition) under the collective 
name D. Urvillei A. Rich. 
5. Veronica Dartoni sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, 21 dem. altus v. ultra. Folia decussata, anguste lanceo- 
lata, 17-25 mm. longa, a medio 7-9 mm. lata, integra, glabra, + com- 
planata, leviter carinata, in basim sessilem sublatum attenuata et in apicem 
subacuminatum aequaliter producta, nervis duobus obscuris prope margines 
percursa. Racemi in foliorum superiorum axillis dispositi, ad 6 cm. longi, 
angusti, multiflori, pedunculati (pedunculis quam folia ter longioribus, 
puberulis); rhachide pedicellisque firme pubescentibus; bracteis pedicellos 
aequantibus, ovato-lanceolatis, acutis. Flores majusculi, roseo-caesii ; calyx 
4-partitus, lobis lanceolatis acutis ciliolatis; corollae tubo sublato, calycis 
lobos paullo excedente; limbo + 9 mm. lato, lobis ovatis acutis multi- 
nerviis tubum longitudine vix excedentibus, capsula glabra, acuta, + com- 
pressa, ealyce subduplo longior. 
lin. long, 18. 
broad at middle, entire, glabrous, more or less flattened, rather thin. slightly 
keeled, midrib somewhat depressed above, traversed by two obscure sul 
lateral veins, otherwise nerveless. Racemes in 2-3 opposite pairs in axils 
of uppermost leaves, up to 22 in. long including peduncles, rather narrow, 
closely many-flowered ; peduncles about as long as leaves slender puberu- 
lous; rhachis and pedicels strongly pubescent; bracts equalling pedicels, 
about 2mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Flowers rather large, “ гозу 
lilac ” (Darton); calyx 4-partite, lobes lanceolate, acute, ciliolate, corolla- 
tube rather broad, slightly exceeding calyx, limb + jin. across; lo 
ovate, acute, many-nerved, scarcely longer than tube. Capsules glabrous, 
acute, somewhat compressed, barely twice as long as the calyx. 
