The leading Physiognomic Plants and their Growth-forms. 957 
The flowers are very small, hermophrodite, and arranged in fascicles upon the 
naked twigs. The fruit is purplish, globose and somewhat fleshy. The species 
has been also noted in two localities in Stewart Island. 
Myosotidium nobile Hook. (Borrag.), the Chatham Island lily, has a stout root- 
stock 5 cm in diam. which creeps just below the ground-surface, or is partly-un- 
buried. The rhubarb-like leaves are in erect rosettes; they are ovate-cordate to 
reniform, 25 cm long x 30 cm broad, more or less, and consist of a comparatively 
thin blade strengthened beneath by a stout framework of midrib and veins; 
the leaf-stalks are stout and about ı2.cm long. The flowers, each about 
ı.2 cm in diam., the central half of the corolla bright blue and the outer half 
white, are arranged in dense, sub-globose, many-flowered cymes borne on 
stout stalks 60 cm high. The genus is endemic and monotypic. 
Veronica gigantea Cockayne (Scroph.) is a low forest-tree 4.5—g m n high 
with an erect trunk 30 cm or more in diam. and a close, rounded crown. 
The leaves are lanceolate, 7—9g cm long, soft, dull-green and moderately thick. 
Though like a gigantic form of V. salicifolia, the seedling-form is altogether 
distinct in its early leaves deeply and coarsely toothed, their margins Alisted, 
with hooked, white hairs and the strongly pubescent soft, purple stem. Succeed- 
‚ing leaves are larger than the adult; and, although entire are still ciliated and 
also pubescent on the midrib. Plants more than 60 cm high maintain the juvenile 
character. 
Coprosma chathamica Cockayne (Rubiac) is a tree 4.5—ı5 m high with a 
trunk 30—6o cm in diam. covered with light-brown bark and having oblong, 
obovate-oblong or lanceolate leaves about 4.9 cm long, dark-green, somewhat 
thin, shining above but pale beneath, flat or with the margins more or less 
ncunred; The gerad is closely related to the Kermadec €. ss to 9 which 
it was referred by HOOKER and it is near to C. Baueri. a 
Olcaria Tr raversü (F. Muell. se a (Compo 
