Armstkong. — On the Geiuis Veronica. 355 



lu the oi'igiual descriptiou the uame was inadvertently written greyi, 

 and the mistake was repeated in my " Sketch of the Flora of Canterbury." 

 This pretty and curious little shrub is named m honour of Mr. W. Gray, of 

 Ohinitahi, an ardent and efficient collector of New Zealand plants. It is a 

 neat little shrub, flowering abundantly and early, and a very desirable garden 

 plant. 



82. V. canterburiensis, Armstrong, " New Zealand Country Journal," Vol. 

 III. A small prostrate or erect slender shrub, 1-2 feet high. Leaves entire, 

 smooth, rather closely imbricated, spreading and recurved, obovate, mucro- 

 nate, concave, membranous, \ inch long, on short slender stalks, which in 

 those leaves on the lower side of the branches are twisted, so as to bring 

 the upper side to the hght. Bacemes in pairs at the ends of the branches, 

 4-8-flowered, hairy. Bracts i-i inch long, linear, acute, hairy, with white 

 membranous cihated margins. Calyx-lobes i— | inch long, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, with delicate white, membranous, ciliated margins. Corolla-tiihe 

 shorter than the calyx ; Umb i inch diameter, white ; lobes obovate, obtuse. 

 Anthrs blue. Capsules ovoid-compressed, glabrous, acute, twice as long 

 as the calyx. F. liccens, Kirk, in Canterbury Museum. 



Safe.— Canterbury and Westland, 3,000-5,000 feet. 



A handsome little shrub, very distinct in characters from any other ; 

 readily distinguished from all others of its section by the small foliage 

 and twisted footstalks. 



33. V. anomala, n.s. 



A dense-growing shrub, 3-6 feet high, 4-8 feet through. Branches long, 

 slender, purplish or reddish towards the tips. Leaves decussate, ^-1 inch 

 long, i-i inch wide, linear or linear-oblong, patent, often reddish-coloured, 

 coriaceous, quite glabrous on the upper surface, sometimes ciliated on the 

 margin, concave, enth-e, shortly petiolate ; midrib obscure above, distinctly 

 keeled below. Racemes crowded together, 5-10-flowered, sub-terminal, ulti- 

 mately becoming a terminal panicle by the defohation of the upper leaves. 

 Flowers white, very shortly pedicellate or sessile. Bracts sessile, acute, nerved, 

 keeled, |— |- inch long. Calyx-lobes 3, linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, distinctly 

 nerved, scabrid, pubescent or glabrous. Corolla-tube ^ inch long ; limb J— | 

 inch broad ; lobes nearly oqual, 3, or 2 unequal, spreading, narrow. Stamens 

 shorter than the style. Capsules ovoid-oblong, compressed, obtuse, pubes- 

 cent, I- inch long, always longer than the calyx. 



Hab. — Canterbmy Provincial District, Eakaia Valley, Mount Cook, and 

 Mount Peel. A curious plant differing fi-om all other species in the number 

 of the corolla-lobes, but very closely resembling V. vernicosa in appearance, 

 and doubtless a very recent offset from that species. 



