T76 SCROPHULARIACEAE. | Lamosella, 
2. L. Curdieana F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austral. 1x (1875) 166.— 
A perennial herb with tufts of radical leaves, emitting short thick stolons 
terminating in other tufts, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves numerous ; 
petiole 2-4in. long or more, filiform, terete, dilated towards the base ; 
blade -#in. long, ovate of ovate-oblong, obtuse, suddenly contracted into 
the petiole, rather thin; main veins 3-5, parallel, with reticulating veinlets 
between. Flowers crowded at the bases of the petioles, sessile, minute, 
Calyx #4, in. long or less, tipped with 5 minute teeth. Corolla altogether 
included in the calvx, shortly 5-lobed. Stamens 4, inserted on the corolla- 
tube. Style short; stigma capitate. Capsule included within the per- 
sistent calyx, ;4,-$in. diam., globose, rupturing irregularly. Seeds very 
numerous ; testa reticulated.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. #1. (1906) 489. 
See Glack >. $$6 
South Isranp: Otago—Watery places in the Manuherikia Valley, Petrie. Also 
in Australia. 
A very curious plant, differing from all states of L. aquatica in the sessile flowers, 
included corolla, and capsule shorter than the calyx. f have seen no specimens except 
Mr. Petrie’s, the flowers of which appear to be cleistogamic. 
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7, VERONICA Linn, §O' ° F=f" 
1FES 
Herbs or shrubs, rarely small trees. Leaves opposite or rarely the 
cauline alternate, often connate at the base, large or small and scale-like, 
spreading or appressed, often closely quadrifaniously imbricate. Flowers 
in bracteate axillary or terminal racemes, more rarely in spikes or panicles 
or corymbs, sometimes solitary in the axils of the leaves or terminal. 
Calyx usually 4-partite, rarely 3- or 5-partite. Corolla-tube longer or 
shorter than the calyx, sometimes very short; limb spreading, usually 
4-lobed, sometimes 5-lobed, seldom 3- or 6-lobed ; lobes unequal or rarely 
equal, imbricate in the bud, the lateral ones or one of them outside. 
Stamens 2, very rarely 4 or 5; filaments long or short, inserted on the 
corolla-tube ; anther-cells diverging or parallel, confluent at the tip. Ovary 
small, 2-celled ; style slender; ovules few or many in each cell. Capsule 
2-celled, compressed or turgid, grooved on each side, either septicidally 
dehiscent with the placentas separating, or loculicidal with the valves 
remaining attached to the undivided placental column or separating from 
it. Seeds few or many, ovate or orbicular, compressed, attached by the 
inner flat surface. 
A genus of nearly 275 species, most abundant in New Zealand and in the temperate 
regions of the Northern Hemisphere, rare and almost absent in the tropics. In New 
Zealand it is by far the largest genus of flowering-piants, and in montane or subalpine 
districts forms a conspicuous portion of the vegetation. Many of the species are 
singularly beautiful in form, foliage, and flower; and from that reason, and from the 
ease with which they can be cultivated, a considerable number have become well 
established in gardens throughout the Dominion and in Europe. Of the 103 species 
admitted in. this book, all but 3 are endemic. These are V. elliptica, which is 
found in the Falkland Islands, Fuegia, and South Chile; V. plebeia, which is not 
uncommon in east Australia; and V. Anagallis, which has a wide distribution in the 
North Temperate Zone. But the last is probably an introduction. The distribution 
of the species within the Dominion is peculiar. Twenty-one are confined to the North 
Island, and no less than 61 to the South Island, while only 12 species are found in 
both Islands. Five are endemic in the Chatham Islands, 2 in the Auckland and 
Campbell Islands, and 1 in the Kermadec Islands. Of the 103 species, 59 are purely 
