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Veronica. | SCROPHULARIACEAE. 795, 
flat or nearly so, quite smooth and glabrous or the midrib puberulous 
above, margins entire. Racemes opposite and axillary near the tips oi 
the branches, 2-4in. long, slender, lax-flowered; rhachis, pete and 
bracts pubescent or glabrate; pedicels slender, the lowest ¢in. long. 
Flowers $-+in. diam. Calyx deeply 4-partite; segments long, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, pubescent or glabrate. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, 
short and broad, not nearly equalling the calyx; limb oop 4-lobed ; 
lobes longer than the tube, oblong, acute or subacute. Capsule } in. long, 
ovate- sobloue, acute, about twice as long as the calyx.—Cheseem. Man. 
N.4Z. FI. (1906) 507. V. hegustrifolia var. “acutiflora Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 
i (1853) 192. 7emns @F:222 3; 67: (VST : ae; 
Nort Istanp: Auckland—Kerikeri Falls (Bay of Islands), A. ata, Colen sol 
T. Kirk! Petrie / Hebruary—March. 
This appears to be a variable plant. Mr. Colenso’s specimens have the pedicels 
and calyces nearly glabrate; in Kirk’s and Petrie’s they are softly pubescent. So 
far as is known, the species is restricted to a single habitat, where it was originally 
discovered by Allan Cunningham. 
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98. W. angustifolia A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 187.— An erect 
much-branched glabrous shrub 5-8{t. high; branches slender, erect, 
naked below, bark often purplish-brown. Leaves sessile, spreading or 
deflexed, 14-34in. long, 4-}in. broad, narrow-linear or narrow linear- 
lanceolate, often falcate, acute, dark-green and channelled above, paler 
and keeled beneath, quite glabrous, margins entire. Racemes numerous 
near the tips of the branches, opposite and axillary, erect or spreading, 
longer than the leaves, 2-5in. long, slender, tapering, usually rather lax- 
flowered ; rhachis, pedicels, and bracts pubescent : pedicels short, slender. 
Flowers rather small, 4in. diam., pale-llac. Calyx very small, deeply 
4-partite ; segments oblong, obtuse, cihate. Corolla-tube tubular, 2 or 3 
times as long as the calyx ; limb 4-lobed : lobes broadly oblong, obtuse. 
Capsule about 4in. long, ovate, acute, compressed, about twice as long 
as the calyx—Raoul Choi (1846) 43; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
508. V. squalida 7. Kirk im Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii (1896) 528. 
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V, Sagi te var. angustifoha Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. (1872) t. 5965. Vat & 2/935: 
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My ar. abbreviata Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. liii (1921) 371.—Racemes shorter Reg Com ; 
the leaves, 3 —Ijiin. long, obtuse, densely many-flowered ; leaves somewhat shorter 
than in the type. Capsules not seen. 
Nortu Istanp : Auckland—Near Gisborne, W. Townson ! Hawke’s Bay—Colenso / 
H. Hili! Ruahine Mountains, 6. C. Aston. Wellington—River-beds of Wangaehu 
and Turakina, A. Allison / Sourn Istanp: Nelson and Marlborough, abundant, 
D Urville, Provers f Buchanan! T. Kirk! J. H. Macmahon! T. F. C., and others: 
Buller Gorge, Petrie. Var. abbreviata : Marlborough—Valley of the Ure River, 
B.C, Aston ! Sea-level to 3500 ft. December—February. 
Very near to V. parviflora, and chiefly separated by the smaller size, longer and 
often drooping leaves, longer and more lax-flowered racemes, and longer corolla-tube. 
Hooker’s plate in the Botanical Magazine is excellent. 
‘24. V. parviflora Vahl Symb. Bot. ii (1794) 1 ate Serna Geta teed 
shrub or small-tree 6-20ft. high, with a rounded dome-shaped head ; 
trunk sometimes 2ft. diam. at the base; branches slender, twiggy, 
ringed with the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves sessile, spreading or 
suberect, 1-24in. long, 4-}in. broad, narrow linear- laneeolate. acute, 
almost flat or channelled above, ected beneath, quite smooth, margins 
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