Cheeseman. — On recent Additions to Flora of New Zealand. 299 



This handsome species has much of the habit and general appearance of 

 C. fastigiata, but is at once distinguished by the broad pods, which are 

 more than twice the diameter of those of C. fastigiata, and have in addition 

 a peculiar turgid or swollen appearance very unusual in the genus. The 

 pods of 0. fastigiata (which I have gathered in a fruiting condition at the 

 Wairau Gorge) are flat and narrow, and never more than ^ inch in 

 diameter. 



2. Cotula linearifolia, n. sp. 



Dark green, rather thick and fleshy, very aromatic, sparingly pilose. 

 Stems branched, prostrate, ascending at the tips. Leaves £-l£ inches 

 long, T V _ 8' mcu broad, thick and fleshy, narrow linear or linear-spathulate, 

 quite entire, sprinkled with minute glandular dots, blade gradually narrowed 

 into a broad sheathing petiole. Scapes 2-4 inches long, rather slender, 

 with from 4-8 linear or linear- subulate bracts. Heads unisexual, J— § inch 

 diameter. Scales of the involucre in about three series, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, herbaceous, with a broad green centre and thin brownish margins ; 

 receptacle convex, papillose ; florets usually with numerous rounded trans- 

 parent glands. Female florets — corolla thick and fleshy, swollen at the 

 base, somewhat tetragonous, narrowed above, with 4 short erect lobes ; 

 achene linear-obovate, compressed. Males— smaller and more slender, 

 funnel-shaped, 4-lobed. 



Hab. Mountains flanking the Wairau Valley, Nelson, alt. 3,000-4,500 

 feet. 



A curious little species, allied to C. pyrethrifolia, Hook, f., in the struc- 

 ture of the flower heads and in the numerous linear bracts, but differing 

 from it, and all the other New Zealand species, in the narrow entire leaves. 

 In outward appearance it somewhat resembles Abrotanella linearis, Berg- 

 gren. 



3. Veronica cheesemani, Benth. 

 (Hook, f., Icones Plantarum, t. 1366, a.) 



Small, greyish green, densely tufted, forming rounded cushions 2-5 

 inches in diameter, pubescent in all its parts. Branches slender, closely 

 compacted and intertwined. Leaves -J— ^ inch long, narrow obovate, lobu- 

 late, or pinnatifid, lobes obtuse, narrowed into a long or short broad petiole. 

 Flowers white, solitary, axillary, very shortly pedicelled, ^ inch diameter. 

 Calyx deeply divided into four spreading linear-spathulate segments, that 

 are coarsely toothed towards the top. Corolla slightly longer than the 

 calyx, four-lobed, lobes obovate, emarginate. Ovary broadly ovoid, hispid. 

 Capsule much shorter than the sepals, broadly didymous, slightly com- 

 pressed, hispid, ultimately splitting to the base into four oblong obtuse 

 valves. 



