VERONICA LTNDLEYANA. 
(Dr. Liudley’s Speedwell.) 
Class. 
DIANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHUL ARI ACE^ . 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. — Calyx four, rarely five, parted, 
I iampanulate or compressed. Corolla rotate, with a 
?ery short tube, and a four-parted spreading limb ; 
I egments all entire, upper one the broadest. Stamens 
\ wo, situated at the sides of the upper segment of the 
’ jorolla, diverging, without any vestige of the lower 
)nes. Anthers two-celled ; cells confluent at the top. 
Stigma hardly thickened. Valves of septiferous 
in the middle, or bipartible. Seeds naked. 
Specific Character — Plant an evergreen under- 
shrub. Leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, acute, sessile, 
entire, glabrous. Racemes numerous, pedun cl ed, spring- 
ing from the axils of the leaves. Flowers white. 
' This, as an elegant ally of V. speciom^ does not aspire to the magnificence of 
1 hat species ; but in other respects it has more interesting features. The habit of 
i V. speciosa is of a stiff and robust nature ; this, on the contrary, is free, and 
k ilegant ; its flower-spikes are produced in the greatest profusion ; and these, covered 
I with innumerable delicate white flowers, contrasting with their light purple 
I inthers, produce a charming effect. 
Our illustration is prepared by the kind permission of Mr. Glendinning, of the 
j uhiswick Nursery, from an excellent specimen grown by him. 
That gentleman writes — “ Veronica Lindleyana was raised from seeds sent 
I Tom New Zealand in October, 1843, by Mr. Thomas Cleghorn, formerly a 
I N^urseryman of Edinburgh. It was presented to me by my esteemed friend, 
. Mr. James Me Nab, Curator of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society’s 
) Grarden, Edinburgh. It flowered in one of my greenhouses this autumn, for the 
I 4rst time in Europe, at least as far as I am aware ; and when shown to the 
iistinguished botanist whose name it bears, he pronounced it to be perhaps a new 
ipecies. It was exhibited by me in September last before the Horticultural Society of 
I 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 
mported seed, by Mr. McIntosh, gardener to His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, 
’ it Dalkeith, and also by Mr. John Purdie, Nurseryman, Edinburgh. Considerable 
