PxrRiE.— Descriptions of New Native Flowering-plants. 437 
Hab.—Firewood Creek, near Cromwell, Vincent County: D. P. Rocky 
banks of Clutha River near Roxburgh bridge: Brian Jeffery! H. L. Dar- 
ton! Queenstown Hill (Lake Wakatipu): J. W. McIntyre. 
; Si А Н.Т, 
only two or three years ago. . Da 
beautiful object when in flower, and very floriferous. ; 
6. Veronica trifida sp. nov. 
ies V. Birleyi (N. E. Brown) affinis; differt habitu prostrato v. 
te diffuso; ramis ramulisque elongatis (ad 90 cm. longis v. 
ultra) ; ramulis demum ab apicibus -+ suberectis ; foliis subalte 2—4 dentatis, 
politis, pro parte maxima glabris; racemorum pedunculis longioribus 
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of decayed leaves, up to 3ft. in length. Leaves closely imbricating, 
a ed or somewhat spreading, sessile by a broad base, roughly obovate - 
in general outline, 7-8 mm. long and about half as wide, obtuse, polish 
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prominent acute teeth a little below, but sometimes with two pairs of 
mil : : 
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1-3 in axils of upper leaves, few-flowered, pedunculate, uncles densely 
glandular - pubescent, + 9 mm. long, pedicels 1-5-3 mm. long, clothed 
like the peduncles as are also bracts and calyx; bracts a single pair a 
little below flowers, lanceolate, thin, subacute; calyx 4-partite, lobes thin 
acute; “corolla pure white, 1—3 in. across, segments rounded, tube long" 
(Darton); capsule almost e ualling sepals, subcuneately obcordate, much 
compressed, mm. long, 3mm. wide, glabrous. 
Hab.—Titan Ridge, near the Blue Lake, Garvie Mountains, Southland, 
circa 4,500 ft. : J. Speden ! Н. L. Darton ! 
Th 
summer it makes fresh erect growth rapidly up to 6 in. or 9 in., but gene- 
rally 3in. or 4in. only. On one trip I noticed а band of white about 1 yard 
all intermediate stages to the edge of the snow. 
As I have not seen the plant growing, I feel that the foregoing descrip- 
tion must be in many respects inadequate. 
