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kmceolate or Unear-lanceolate, generally entire, seldom minutely 

 and distantly serrulated, always one-nerved and very faintly veined ; 

 racemes densely many-flowered, less frequently few-flowered, axil- 

 lary or occasionally some terminal; peduncles generally short, seldom 

 •wanting, mostly as well as the rachis pedicels and calyces subtle- 

 downy ; pedicels about double as long as the calyx or variously shorter ; 

 corolla bilabiate ; capsule ovate or orbicular-ovate, nfioderately or 

 slightly parallel to the septum compressed, by septical dehiscence 

 divisible into two carpels, often longer than the calyx ; carpels 

 bursting at the summit and with a narrow slit along their internal 

 face ; placenta stalked ; seeds flat, fulvous, orbicular or broad-ovate, 

 smooth. 



Varietas salidfolia. 



Common in woods of Chatham-Island and around their edges. 



This variety embraces those more luxuriant forms of V. Forsteri, 

 in which the leaves and racemes are elongated, and in which not 

 unfrequently the tube of the corollas considerably extends beyond 

 the calyx, whilst its lateral and upper lobes are oval or oblong and 

 stamens and style long-exserted. This variety is also frequent in 

 New Zealand, but seems as yet unknown from any other localities 

 except the Chonos-Archipelago, where it occurs according to Pro- 

 fessor Philippi's collection. 



Varietas elliptica. 



Common on Pitt-Island, rare on Chatham-Island. 



This variety comprises those forms of V. Forsteri, which are much 

 reduced in the length of theii; leaves and often simultaneously also 

 in the length of their racemes ; the pedicels and tube of the corolla 

 are also often shorter than in the var. salicifolia and the lobes of the 

 corolla' broader, whilst stamens and styles are generally less elon- 

 gated. 



This variety inhabits not only New Zealand, but also Auckland- 

 and Campbell-Island, Fuegia and the Falkland-Islands. 



From the rich collections of New Zealand plants, which the 

 phytological museum of Melbourne owes to Mr. Travers senior and 

 Dr. Haast, it appears that this variety is mainly restricted to rocky 

 and exposed coast-localities and alpine regions. Both varieties pass 

 under the native name " Koromiko" at the Chatham-Islands. 



After instituting extensive dissections the author has been in- 

 duced to unite all the plants enumerated on this occasion as forms 

 of one species, and it seems not improbable that also V. pubescens 

 (Banks & Soland. in Cand. Prodr. x. 460) and V. pimeloides (J. Hook. 



