VERONICA LTNDLEYANA. 
(Dr. Lindley's Speedwell.) 
Class. Order. 
DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHULARIACEyE . 
Generic Character.— Calyx four, rarely five, parted, 
campanulate or compressed. Corolla rotate, with a 
very short tube, and a four-parted spreading limb ; 
segments all entire, upper one the broadest. Stamens 
two, situated at the sides of the upper segment of the 
corolla, diverging, without any vestige of the lower 
ones. Anthers two-celled ; cells confluent at the top. 
Stigma hardly thickened. Valves of capsule septiievous 
in the middle, or bipartible. Seeds naked. 
Specific Character — Plant an evergreen under- 
shrub. Leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, acute, sessile, 
entire, glabrous. Racemes numerous, peduncled, spring- 
ing from the axils of the leaves. Flowers white. 
This, as an elegant ally of V. speciosa, does not aspire to the magnificence of 
that species ; but in other respects it has more interesting features. The habit of 
V. speciosa is of a stiff and robust nature ; this, on the contrary, is free, and 
elegant ; its flower-spikes are produced in the greatest profusion ; and these, covered 
with innumerable delicate white flowers, contrasting with their light purple 
anthers, produce a charming effect. 
Our illustration is prepared by the kind permission of Mr. Glendinning, of the 
Chiswick Nursery, from an excellent specimen grown by him. 
That gentleman writes — " Veronica Lindleyana was raised from seeds sent 
from New Zealand in October, 1843, by Mr. Thomas Cleghorn, formerly a 
Nurseryman of Edinburgh. It was presented to me by my esteemed friend, 
Mr. James McNab, Curator of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society's 
Garden, Edinburgh. It flowered in one of my greenhouses this autumn, for the 
first time in Europe, at least as far as I am aware ; and when shown to the 
distinguished botanist whose name it bears, he pronounced it to be perhaps a new 
species. It was exhibited by me in September last before the Horticultural Society of 
London, and obtained the Banksian Medal. It was then loaded with innumerable 
spikes of its elegant white flowers, which sometimes produce as many as twelve 
spikes upon one short branch. 
" Mr. McNab informs me that numerous seedlings were raised from the 
imported seed, by Mr. Mcintosh, gardener to His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, 
at Dalkeith, and also by Mr. John Purdie, Nurseryman, Edinburgh. Considerable 
