424 SUBANTARCTIC ISLAISTDS OP NEW ZEALAND. [Systematic Botany. 



As Mr. Armstrong's varietal name of albiflora has already been applied to a 

 Fuegian plant {M. albiflora, Banks and Solander), I have used Kirk's later name of 

 albida. As a species it differs from M. cafitata in the larger size and stouter habit, 

 and in being more copiously covered with soft white hairs. The leaves are larger, 

 3-6 in. long, with longer petioleS; and are equally hairy (or nearly so) on both surfaces, 

 whereas in M. capitata the under-surface of the leaves is less hairy than the upper 

 side, often becoming nearly glabrous in age. The inflorescence is much more de- 

 veloped, the lateral racemes being more numerous, and on longer peduncles. The 

 flowers are always white, never blue. They are rather smaller in diameter than 

 M. capitata, but have a proportionally longer tube. But the most important difference 

 between the two species is in the stamens. In M. capitata they are inserted some 

 distance below the corolla-scales, and the filaments are very short, so that the tips 

 of the anthers just reach above the corolla-scales. In M. albida the stamens are 

 inserted between the corolla-scales, and the filaments are as long as the anthers, or 

 a trifle longer, so that the anthers are altogether above the level of the scales. The 

 position of the stamens is therefore about intermediate between Eumyosotis and 

 Exarrhena. 



SCROPHULARIACEAE. 



Veronica elliptica, Forst. 



Veronica elliptica, Forst., Prodr., n. 10 (1786) ; Hook, f., Fl. Antarct., 

 i, 58 (1844). 7. decussata. Ait., Hort. Kew, i, 20, (1789). 



The Snares : Not uncommon ; Kirk ! Cockayne ! Auckland Islands : Fairly 

 plentiful, especially along the western coast and on Disappointment Island ; also 

 on the exposed islets of the eastern coast, as Ewing Island, Enderby Island, &c. ; 

 rarer in the inlets of the eastern shore ; Hooker and all subsequent travellers. Camp- 

 bell Island : Hooker, Kirk, Laing. (Shores of New Zealand, from Cook Strait 

 southwards ; South America, from Magellan Strait to Cape Horn (S. lat. 56°) ; 

 Falkland Islands.) 



Two states of this well-known plant are found in the Auckland Islands. One, 

 with rather small leaves, varying from | in. to 1 in. long, agrees fairly well with 

 Forster's drawing in the unpublished Banksian plates, which must be taken as repre- 

 senting the type of the species. The other is much more robust, with larger and 

 thicker leaves, 1-lf in. long, and with larger flowers and capsules. I understand 

 that this state always has the flowers pure white ; whereas the other (and especi- 

 ally in some of the New Zealand localities) frequently has the upper petals flnely 

 pencilled with purple. 



Veronica odora, Hook. f. 



Veronica odora. Hook, f., Fl. Antarct., i, 62, t. 41 (1844). V. buxifolia, 

 var. odora, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxviii, 524 (1896). F. elliptica, 

 var. odora, Cheesem., Man. N.Z. Fl., 516 (1906). 



Auckland Islands : " In woods near the sea, not uncommon, forming scattered 

 bushes " ; Hooker : Norman's Inlet and Port Eoss ; Aston ! (Endemic.) 



