Veromea. | SCROPHULARIACEAR. 799 
Flowers white or pale-lilac, }-}in. diam. Calyx deeply 4-partite; seg- 
ments ovate-oblong, subacute or obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla-tube nearly 
twice as long as the calyx, funnel-shaped; lobes oblong, obtuse or sub- 
acute, the anterior one narrower than the rest. Capsule ovoid, acute, more 
than twice as long as the calyx.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 193; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 512. V. Colensoi Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fil. 
Al eo) 209 (on part only). 
Sa divaricata ( Cheesem. — More Rpatinets branched; the branches slender, 
spreading. Leaves narrower, lanceolate, acute, often fileate spreading or deflexed, 
not so closely placed nor so coriaceous as in the type. Racemes copiously corymbosely 
branched. Calyx-segments narrower, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Has much of the habit 
and general appearance of V. diosmaefolia, but differs markedly in the longer corolla- 
tube and narrower acute calyx-segments. 
SoutH Istanp: Marlborough—Pelorus and Tinline Valleys, J. H. Macmahon ! 
Cockayne ; Clarence Valley, 7. Kirk ! Nelson—Vicinity of Nelson, Bidwill ! B.C. Aston! 
Maitai Valley, 7. Kirk! T. F. C.; Lake Rotoiti, Monro, T. F. C. ; Mount Mantell, 
Buller Valley, H. H, Alian! Canterbury—Hanmer Plains, 7. F. C. Otago—Dusky - x 
Bay, Menzies. Sea-level to 3000 ft. December—February. Var. divaricata: No 
uncommon in the Pelorus and Rai Valleys, pearibongsen: J. ae PR ali sate 2:27 
V. Menziesii was founded by Bentham on specimens Uieced by Mevirias in 
Dusky Bay in 1791. In the Flora Hooker united Menzies’s plant with another gathered 
by Bidwill in the vicinity of Nelson; but in the Handbook he referred Menzies’s 
specimens to V. elliptica, and associated Bidwill’s specimens with a plant gathered on 
the Ruahine Mountains by Colenso, and with others collected in various localities in 
the South Island by Sinclair, Travers, and Haast, giving the name of Colensoi to the 
species thus described. But as Colenso’s plant was described as having simple racemes 
and glaucous leaves, while Bidwill’s (judging from a specimen in my possession) had 
compound racemes and dark-green leaves, this arrangement did not appear at all satis- 
factory. At my request Mr. N. E. Brown has carefully examined the types in the 
Kew Herbarium, and reports that Menzies’s and Bidwill’s specimens undoubtedly belong 
to one and the same species, and that Hooker was in error in referring the former to 
V. elliptica.- He further states that Colenso’s Ruahine Mountain plant is totally 
‘different, and is the species subsequently described by Colenso under the name of 
V. AHillaa. Under these circumstances, the name of V. Menziesit must be restored, 
the species being characterized by the narrow acute rigid leaves, corymbosely branched 
racemes, 4-partite calyx with subacute segments, and a corolla-tube almost twice as 
long as the calyx. Its nearest ally is V. diosmaefolia, to which my var. divaricata 1s 
‘very close indeed. A plant collected by Petrie at the foot of Ruapehu, and by 
Messrs. Hill and Andrew on the Ruahine Range, is doubtfully referred to V. Menziesit 
for the present, but the specimens are not sufficient for precise determination. 
also 20 ‘929 : 769 
31. V. Colensoi Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 209 (as regards the 
North Island specimens only)—A small erect or spreading perfectly glabrous 
shrub 9-18in. high; branches leafy above, ringed with the scars of the 
fallen leaves below. Leaves rather close-set, suberect or BERGHE sessile 
or narrowed into a very short broad petiole, ¢-1}1n. long, §-31in. broad, 
linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or subacute, entire or remotely 
incised, coriaceous, flat or nearly so, dark-green above, glaucous beneath ; 
midrib stout, prominent beneath. Racemes few near the tips of the 
branches, slightly exceeding the leaves, slender, peduncled, simple or 
sparingly branched, many-flowered ; rhachis slender, puberulous or glabrate ; 
bracts exceeding the short pedicels. Flowers white, 4in. diam. Calyx deeply 
4-partite ; segments ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla-tube broadly funnel- 
shaped, shorter than the calyx; limb rather longer than the tube, 4-lobed ; 
lobes spreading or reflexed, narrow-ovate, subacute. Stamens short, not 
exceeding the corolla- lobes. Capsule narrow-ovate, acute, compressed, 
about twice as long as the calyx. —Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fi. (1906) 513, 
V. Hilli Col. on Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvui (1896) 606; 7. Kirk Le. 524. 
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