214 LIII. SCROPHULARINEiE. [Veronica. 
Corolla \ in. across, lilac ; tube very short. | Stamens short. Capsule 
small, oblong, obtuse, twice as long as the sepals. 
Middle Island: Wairau mountains, 1500-2000 ft., Travers ; Macrae’s Run, halfway 
up, in rocky places, Munro ; Kaikoras mountains, Sinclair. 
30. V. Xjavaudiana, Raoul, Clioix, 1 . 10 ;—Fl. N. Z. i. 195. A small, 
rather stout, puberulous species ; stem decumbent at the base ; branches 
ascending, terete, 4-8 in. high. Leaves rather crowded, short-petioled, i~f 
in. long, broadly obovate-spathulate, obtuse, crenate-serrate, very coriaceous. 
Spikes short, in. long, crowded on a low spreading puberulous and 
glandular corymb 1-2 in. broad. Flowers sessile ; bracts and sepals nearly 
equal, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate and pubescent, -Jg- in. long. 
Corolla -5 in. diam., purple ; tube rather long. Stamens very short. Cap- 
sule oblong, obtuse, a little longer than the calyx. 
Middle Island: Akaroa, rocky mountains, Raoul ; Port Cooper, on stony ground, 
Lyall ; river bed of the Ashley, Canterbury plains, Travers. 
31. V. Raoulii, Hoo/c.f., n.sp. A small, robust, much-branched, erect 
shrub, 6-12 in. high ; stem often tortuous at the base; branches terete, pu- 
berulous, erect or ascending, leafy. Leaves shortly petioled, rather crowded, 
suberect or spreading, f in. long, oblong-spathulate, obtuse or apiculate, 
crenate, very thick and coriaceous, opaque or shining. Spikes very short, 
arranged in terminal pedicelled or subsessile crowded glabrous or puberulous 
corymbs \ in. broad, or in heads, or all congested into an oblong crowded 
thyrsus 1-2 in. long. Flowers sessile ; bracts and sepals very broadly 
oblong-ovate, obtuse, nearly glabrous. Corolla \ in. broad ; tube short. 
Stamens short. Capsule broadly oblong, obtuse, rather longer than the 
calyx. 
Middle Island : Akaroa, Raoul (sent with V. Lavaudiana') ; Upper Wairau valley, alt. 
3000 ft., Munro, Travers ; rocks on the Kowui river, alt. 2500 ft., Haast. 
32. V. Benthami, Hoo/c.f. FI. Antarct. i. 60. t. 39 and 40. An erect, 
much-branched shrub, 2-4 ft. high ; branches very robust, closely transversely 
scarred, puberulous on the opposite sides. Leaves crowded towards the ends 
of the branches, sessile, y-1 £ in. long, linear- or obovate-oblong, obtuse ; 
margin with a few deep serratures and edged with down, very coriaceous, 
flat, veinless, opposite pairs connate at the very base. Kacemes terminal, 
continuous with the ends of the branches, clothed with imbricating foliaceous 
obovate bracts, g— | in. long, which are edged with down. Flower's pedicelled, 
shorter than the bracts Sepals unequal, % in. long, oblong-spathulate, edged 
with down. Corolla fine bright blue, nearly ^ in. diam. ; tube short. Sta- 
mens short. Capsule very broadly ovate, acute, as broad as long, about as 
long as the sepals. Seeds broadly winged. 
Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Islands : abundant in rocky places, J. I). H. 
A most beautiful plant, quite unlike any New Zealand congener. The flowers are sometimes 
5- or 6-merous, with three stamens and a 3-carpelled ovary. 
33. V. Hnifolia, Hook. /., n. sp. A small, perfectly glabrous, leafy, 
herbaceous, procumbent, branched species ; branches slender, terete, 2-6 in. 
long. Leaves rather close-set, spreading, sessile or shortly petioled, g-1 in. 
long, tV -$■ broad, linear, obtuse, quite entire, flat, not very coriaceous, 
