PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



89217 to 89382— Continued. 



89256. Variety patens. A variety 

 with spreading leaves, larger flow- 

 ers, and more numerous spikes. 



89257. Hebe carnea Hort. 



A garden hybrid of unknown or- 

 igin. It is a shrub about 2 .feet 

 high, with rose-colored flowers. 



89258. Hebe carnosula (Hook, f.) 

 Cockayne (Veronica carnosula 

 Hook. f.). 



An erect bush up to 3 feet high, 

 with stout spreading branches and 

 closely imbricating sessile broadly 

 obovate leathery leaves about half 

 an inch long. Tbe small white flow- 

 ers are in crowded spikes near the 

 ends of the branches. Closely allied 

 to Veronica pinguifolia. 



89259. Hebe carsei (Petrie) Cock- 

 ayne (Veronica carsei Petrie). 



An erect shrub 2 to 6 feet high, 

 with virgate branches, dark-brown 

 bark, and close-set sessile leathery 

 flat elliptic-oblong leaves about an 

 inch long. The white flowers are in 

 slender racemes 2 to 3 inches long. 



89260. Hebe cassinioides (Mat- 

 thews) Cockayne (Veronica cassis- 

 niovles Matthews). 



A low erect shrub with fastigiate 

 branches, leathery decussate triangu- 

 lar-lanceolate leaves, and white flow- 

 ers in spikelike racemes. 



89261. Hebe coarctata (Cheeseman) 

 Cockayne and Allan (Veronica 

 coarctata Cheeseman). 



A low stout much-branched shrub 

 1 to 3 feet high, with densely imbri- 

 cating leaves one-tenth inch long 

 and small white flowers which form 

 small terminal heads near the tips 

 of the branches. 



89262. Hebe colensoi (Hook, f.) 

 Cockayne (Veronica colensoi Hook, 

 f.). 



A low bush up to 18 inches high, 

 with branches leafy above. The 

 rather close-set sessile dark-green 

 leathery lanceolate leaves are about 

 an inch long, and the white flowers 

 are in slender racemes slightly long- 

 er than the leaves. 



89263. Hebe corriganii Carse. 



A small shrub 3 to 5 feet high, 

 with smooth stout branchlets and 

 linear-lanceolate irregularly toothed 

 strongly keeled leaves less than an 

 inch long. The pale-lilac or white 

 flowers are in loose racemes about as 

 long as the leaves. This species is 

 usually found in situations close to 

 running water. 



89264. Hebe dartoni (Petrie) Cock- 

 ayne (Veronica dartoni Petrie). 



A compact shrub 3 to 5 feet high, 

 with reddish-brown branchlets and 

 decussate narrowly obovate leaves 

 nearly an inch long. The lavender 

 flowers are in axillary racemes. 



89265. Hebe decumbens (Armstrong) 

 Cockayne and Allan (Veronica de- 

 cumbens Armstrong). 



A small decumbent bush 3 feet or 

 less in height, with purplish-black 

 branches and small white flowers in 



89217 to 89382— Continued. 



short dense racemes. The leathery 

 elliptic-oblong leaves, half an inch 

 long, are dark green with bright-red 

 margins. 



89266. Hebe diffenbachii (Benth.) 

 Cockayne and Allan (Veronica dif- 

 fenbachii Benth.). 



A robust, much-branched shrub with 

 branches from 2 to over 5 feet long 

 and spreading, often recurved, linear- 

 oblong thick pale-green leaves 2 to 4 

 inches long. The usually lilac-purple 

 flowers are in dense racemes 2 to 8 

 inches long. 



89267. Hebe diosmipolia (R. Cunn.) 

 Cockayne and Allan (Veronica dios- 

 mifolia R. Cunn.). 



A low, much-branched shrub some 

 times over 5 feet high, with close-set 

 oblong-lanceolate leathery dark-green 

 leaves less than an inch long and 

 white or pale lavender-blue flowers in 

 small banded racemes. 



89288. Hebe divaricata (Cheeseman) 

 Cockayne and Allan (Veronica men- 

 ziesii divaricata Cheeseman). 



A shrub 3 to 12 feet high, with slen- 

 der spreading branches, narrowly lance- 

 olate, often falcate, spreading or de- 

 flexed coriaceous leaves 1 to 2 inches 

 long, and copiously branched racemes 

 of small white or lavender flowers. 



Hebe dorrien-smithii (Cock- 

 ayne and Allan (Veronica dorrien- 

 smithii Cockayne). 



A low straggling shrub with slender 

 branches, and sessile pale-green leaves, 

 very variable in size and shape, 2 to 3 

 inches long. The white or pale- 

 lavender flowers are in small racemes. 



89270. Hebe elliptica (Forst. f.) Pen- 

 nell (Veronica elliptica Forst. f.). 



A copiously branched shrub or small 

 tree 5 to 20 feet high, with horizon- 

 tally spreading petiolate pale-green 

 elliptic-oblong leaves about an inch 

 long and sweet-scented white or 

 purple-lined flowers in numerous short 

 lax racemes. 



89271. Hebe elliptica crassifolia 

 Cockayne and Allan. 



A form confined to the coastal rocks 

 and having pale-green branchlets, thick 

 dark-green glistening leaves, and few- 

 flowered racemes or large white 

 flowers. 



89272. Hebe evenosa (Petrie) Cock- 

 ayne and Allan (Veronica evenosa 

 Petrie). 



A tall spreading shrub 4 to 8 feet 

 high, with narrow elliptic thin dull- 

 green leaves about an inch long and 

 small white flowers in dense racemes 

 twice as long as the leaves. 



89273. Hebe glauco-caertjlea (Arm- 

 strong) Cockayne (Veronica glauco- 

 caeruhea Armstrong). 



Closely related to Hebe pimelioides 

 but stouter, and with more glaucous 

 leaves. 



89274. Hebe glaucophylla Cockayne 

 (Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne). 



A low compact rounded shrub with 

 brownish-green bark and rather laxly 

 set decussate thick ovate-lanceolate 



