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796 SCROPHULARIACEAE. [ Veronica. 
entire. Racemes near the tips of the branches, 1-3in. long, equalling 
the leaves or only slightly longer than them, dense-flowered ; rhachis, 
pedicels, and bracts pubescent; pedicels short, rather stout. Flowers 
small, Lin. diam., white with a lilac tinge. Calyx short and broad, deeply 
4-partite; segments broadly oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla-tube funnel- 
shaped, about + as long again as the calyx, seldom more : limb 4-lobed ; 
lobes about as long as the tube, broadly oblong or almost orbicular, obtuse. 
Capsule about din. long, ovate, acute, about twice as long as the caiyx.— 
A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 378; Raoul Choixz (1846) 43; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. 1 (1853) 192; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 207 (in part only); J. B. Armstr. 
in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii (1881) 351; 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii 
(1896) 526; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 508; Adamson in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xl (1912) 254. V. stenophylla Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. u, 760. 
V. arborea Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vi (1874) 242. 
Nortu Istanp: Auckland—Whangarei Heads and Taranga Islands, 7’. i) hae 
Great Barrier Island, 7. Kirk / East Cape district, 7. Kirk. Hawke’s Bay, Colenso ! 
Wellington—Cape Terawhiti and hills near Wellington, Buchanan! T. Kirk! SoutTu 
IstanpD: Marlborough—Queen Charlotte Sound, Banks and Solander. December- 
February. Sea-level to 2000 ft. 
There is some little doubt as to the plant that Vahl described as V. parviftora, 
but it is probably identical with the V. floribunda of Banks and Solander’s manuscripts 
and the V. arborea of Buchanan. It is chiefly characterized by its large size—some- 
times considerably over 25ft—small linear-lanceolate leaves, small dense racemes 
usually not much exceeding the leaves, and short and broad corolla-tube. In the 
Flora and in the Handbook it is united with V. wngustifolia A. Rich, which I take to 
be quite distinct. > paz 
“25. V. leiophylla Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 509. — A large 
spreading perfectly glabrous shrub 4-12 ft. high; branches terete. Leaves 
spreading, sessile or very shortly petiolate, #-lfin. long, }-41in. broad, 
linear-oblong or narrow oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, flat, smooth, 
coriaceous, glabrous or the midrib obscurely puberulous above. Racemes 
towards the tips of the branches, much longer than the leaves, 2—4 in. long, 
slender ; rhachis, pedicels, and bracts puberulous ; pedicels longer than the 
calyx. Flowers rather densely placed, §-4in. diam. by 41in. long or more. 
Calyx small, 4-partite ; segments oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube about twice 
as long as the calyx; limb equalling or shorter than the tube, 4-lobed ; 
lobes oblong, obtuse, the anterior one rather narrower. Capsule 4 in. long, 
broadly oblong, subacute, compressed, glabrous, nearly three times as long 
as the calyx.—Ill. N.Z. Fl. 11 (1914) t. 149. V. parviflora var. phillyreaefolia 
Hook. f. Fl: Noy. Zel..i (1853) 192. 
var. $) waotuna (CK) CHA. STR. 
SoutH Istanp: Apparently not incommon throughout, from Nelson to Otago. 
Sea-level to 3000 ft. December—February. 
This appears to me to be a perfectly distinct species, easily distinguished from 
V. parviflora, under which it was placed by Hooker, by the flat linear-oblong usually 
obtuse leaves and much larger flowers and capsules. I suspect that Kirk’s V. parvi- 
flora vax. strictissima, of which I have only seen two immature specimens, is simply 
a state with more acute leaves and strict suberect racemes. It is frequently named 
V. Traversii in gardens, but is altogether unlike what I take to be the typical state of 
that species. — 
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ee eracillima Yheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 510.—A much- 
branched glabrous shrub; branches spreading, terete. Leaves spreading, 
sessile or nearly so, 1-24 in. long, +-4 in. broad, linear-lanceolate or lance- 
olate, gradually tapering to an acute or acuminate apex, Hat, coriaceous, 
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