384 PLANTS OF NEW ZEALAND 



This species may be taken as a type of the herbaceous 

 section of tlie genus. The flowers are very pretty, tlie petals 

 being white, spotted with dark-red at the entrance to the 

 throat. The species is often cultivated, particularly in gardens 

 m and around Dunedin. These, and the allied species, 

 approach more closely to tlie European forms, than do tlie 

 otlier New Zealand veronicas. It is strange, however, that 

 they should be separated from their congeners by a hemi- 

 sphere, for the veronicas do not grow in the tropics. It is 

 difficult to say if the veronicas covered at one time all the 

 intervening area, or whether they have spread from north to 

 south, or south to north. Certainly, the greater development 

 of the genus in the south, lends some colour to the latter 

 surmise, but general opinion has regarded northern forms as 

 coining south, and not vice versa. 



Genus Ourisia. 



Alpine herlis with perennial roots. Calyx 5-lobed ; corolla 5-cle£t ; stamens 4. 

 Capsule '2-valved. (Named in honour of (Juris, a French Governor of the 

 Falklands). 8 sp. 



Ourisia macfophylla (The Large-leaved Ourisia). 



Stem erect. Leaves all from the roots, hairy, 1 in. -6 in. long. Plower-stem 

 2 in. -30 in. in height. Flowers in umbels. Corolla Jin. long. Capsule Jin. 

 long. Both islands : mountain ranges. Fl. Jan. -Feb. 



Oupisia csespitosa (The Tufted Ourisia). 



Stem creeping. Leaves opposite, numerous, round, A in. across. Flower- 

 stern '2 in. -4 in. long, 1 in, -6 in. flowered. Corolla J in. -Jj in. across, white, 

 Capsule }; in. long. Both islands: Ruahine Mountains, Southern Alps, Otago. 

 Fl. Feb.-JIarch. 



Ourisia glandulosa (The Cilandiilar Ourisia). 



.\ small, stout herb. Leaves closely imbricating, J, in. -1 in. long, i in. -J in. 

 broad, thicjcly covered with rough glandular hairs. Flower-stems 1 in. -2 in. long. 

 Flowers 1 in.-:', in., white, i in. -J in. across. South Island: Mt. Sealy, Southern 

 .Mps, (Jtago Lake district. Fl. Jan. -Feb. 



A genus of distinctly Antarctic distribution, found m the 

 mountains of Tasmania, New Zealand, South America and 



