Veronica. 
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short dense spikes crowded into a head, distinguish this from all except V. carnosula, 
which has very different capsules. 
18. V. pimeleoides, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 195. A small, suberect, 
branched, shrubby plant, 4-10 in. high ; branches erect, as thick as a sparrow- 
quill, pubescent, covered with close-set transverse scars. Leaves sessile, im- 
bricate, erecto-patent, a_a in. long, broadly obovate-oblong, obtuse, rather 
concave, obtusely keeled, rather glaucous ; midrib obscure. Spikes short, 
very pubescent or tomentose, subdistichous. Flowers opposite, in the axils 
of large leafy ciliated bracts. Sepals oblong, obtuse, ciliated. Corolla deep 
purple ; tube very short ; limb A in. diam. Capsule ovate, acute, glabrous, 
twice as long as the calyx. 
Middle Island: Port Cooper, Lyall ; stony flats on the Hurumui mountains, alt. 800- 
1000 ft., Travers ; Southern Alps, amongst shingle and grass, Hopkins, Godlev, and Macau- 
lay rivers, alt. 2-4000 ft., Haast. A very distinct little species, allied in some respects to 
V. pinguifolia, hut more so to V. Lavaudiana, etc. 
19. V. Buchanani, Hoolc.f, n. sp. Stems much branched from the 
base, 4-8 in. high ; branches terete, stout, woody, tortuous, black, closely 
scarred, glabrous or upper pubescent. Leaves small, in. long, closely 
4-fariously imbricate, spreading or recurved, nearly orbicular, sessile by a very 
broad base, concave, very obscurely keeled, nerveless, very thick and coria- 
ceous, not shining. Spikes short, dense, terminal, short-peduncled, subcapi- 
tate, y— 3 - in. long ; peduncle and racliis tomentose. Flowers sessile ; bracts 
and sepals oblong-ovate, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla white, about a in. broad. 
Ovary and base of style villous, 
Middle Island : Otago, lake district, alpine, alt. 3-5000 ft., Hector and Buchanan. 
20. V. tetragona, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 580 ; — FI. N. Z. i. 104. A small, 
erect or prostrate, much-branched shrub ; branches (with the leaves on) 
obtusely 4-angled, T V- i in. diam. Leaves erect, densely imbricate, extremely 
coriaceous, ovate, obtuse, tumid, T l T in. long, the upper ciliated or pubescent 
on the edges, opposite pairs' connate at the base, brown-black when dry. 
Flowers 3-5, sessile amongst the uppermost leaves. Sepals and bract linear- 
oblong, obtuse, ciliated. Corolla-tube short ; limb \ in. diam . — Podocarpns 
Dieffenbachii, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 547. 
Northern Island : Tongariro, Bid will ; Hikurangi, Colenso. Middle Island : Queen 
Charlotte’s Sound, Dieffenbach ; Gordon’s Nob, Munro ; Wai-au-na valley, alt. 3000 ft., 
Travers. 
21. V. lycopodioides, Hoolc.f., n. sp. An erect ?, very much branched, 
stout shrub ; branches (with the leaves on) acutely 4-angled, i~fo in. diam., 
pale yellow-brown when dry. Leaves most densely and closely 4-fariously 
imbricate, thickly coriaceous, very broadly reniform-ovate, much broader than 
long, abruptly narrowed into an acute tip, about -Ag- in. broad, obtusely keeled, 
opposite pairs connate at the base, glabrous or pubescent on the edges. Flowers 
sessile, in small, dense, oblong heads at the ends of the branches ; racliis tomen- 
tose ; bracts larger than the leaves, not so broad in proportion, grooved in parallel 
lines when dry, ciliated. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, ciliated. Corolla-tube 
very short ; limb -t in. diam. Capsule broadly-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, not 
longer than the calyx. 
Middle Island : Southern Alps, Ribbon-wood range, Big Ben, Macaulay river, etc., alt. 
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