Veronica .] 
LXXXVII. SCROPHULARINEflS. 
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2. V. calycina (calyx enlarging after flowering), R. Br. Prod. 435 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. iv. 509. Stems from a creeping rootstock either procumbent, 
spreading to a considerable extent and rooting at the lower nodes, or some 
of the flowering ones usually ascending or erect, from a few inches to nearly 1ft. 
long, more or less hirsute, the hairs usually rather long and in 2 opposite rows 
but sometimes nearly all round the stem. Leaves more petiolate than in the 
preceding species, broadly ovate, coarsely crenate-toothed, rounded truncate or 
cordate at the base, from under ^in. to lin. or rarely rather more in length and 
and often almost as broad, the floral ones smaller and sometimes more sessile and 
narrower. Flowers in the ascending stems in pedunculate few-flowered rather 
loose axillary racemes, or on the procumbent stems almost reduced to clusters, 
the pedicels long with a very short common peduncle. Calyx-segments broadly 
ovate, obtuse, ciliate, usually about 2 lines long when in flower but soon enlarged 
and sometimes twice that size and thin. Corolla-lobes obtuse, either scarcely 
exceeding the calyx or twice as long. Capsule compressed, broadly obcordate 
or truncate, shorter than the calyx. — Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 477 ; Hook. f. FI. 
Tasm. i. 294 ; V. stolonifera, Lehm. Del. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1842, and in PI. 
Preiss. i. 342, Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 477 and 490 (from the character given) ; 
V. cycnorum, Miq. in PI. Preiss. i. 342 (from the character given) ; V. Qunnii, 
Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 477. 
Hab.: Burnett Kiver, F. v. Mueller. 
3. V. plebeia (common), R. Br. Prod. 435; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 510. 
Stems from a creeping rootstock procumbent, elongated and much more slender 
than in the other species, sometimes several feet long, occasionally rooting at the 
nodes, rarely emitting a tuft of erect branches of a few inches, usually minutely 
pubescent, without the long hairs of V. calycina. Leaves on rather long petioles, 
broadly ovate sometimes almost deltoid, deeply acutely and irregularly toothed, 
truncate or broadly cordate at the base, from under -Jin. to about lin. long. 
Racemes as in V. calycina , sometimes rather slender pedunculate and 2 or even 
3in. long with the pedicels not much longer than the calyx, sometimes almost 
reduced to clusters of 2 or 3 flowers on long pedicels with a very short common 
peduncle. Calyx-segments about 2 lines long when in flower, and rarely above 
3 when in fruit, rather acute and minutely ciliolate. Corolla not much longer 
than the calyx. Capsule shorter than the calyx, compressed, nearly orbicular, 
not at all or only very slightly emarginate. — Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 478 ; V. 
deltoidea, Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 17. 
Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller, G. Stuart; Maranoa River, Mitchell; 
common in southern localities. 
The New Zealand V. elongata, Benth. (V. calycina, A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. under n. 3461), 
does not appear to be really distinct from V. plebeia. — Benth. 
4. V. notabilis (notable), F. v. M. Herb.; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 511. 
Stems from a creeping or decumbent base, ascending or erect, 1ft. high or more, 
often much stouter than in the preceding species, loosely pubescent or hirsute. 
Leaves petiolate, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute and acutely toothed, 1 to 
3in. long. Racemes in the upper axils loose, 3 to 8in. long, the pedicels usually 
longer than the calyx. Calyx-segments rather acute, 2 lines long when in 
flower, lengthening to 3 lines in fruit. Corolla not much exceeding the calyx, 
but not seen very perfect. Capsule shorter than the calyx, broad, truncate, or 
slightly notched. 
Hab.: Near Wallangarra. 
This species, which had been determined by A. Cunningham to be the V. arguta of Brown, 
and was included under that name by Bentham in the “ Prodromus” and by Hooker in the 
“ Tasmanian Flora,” proves to be very different from Brown’s plant, and apparently as distinct 
a species as any of the Chamadrys group in Australia except V. nivea (which has not as yet 
been met with in Queensland). 
