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802 SCROPHULARIACEAE. [ Veronia. 
pedicels slender, each with a small lanceolate bract at the base. Flowers 
large, 4-2 in. diam., white or white with purple lines, sweet-scented. Calyx 
1-1 in. long, 4-partite ; segments ovate, acute or acuminate. Corolla-tube 
slightly longer than the calyx ; limb large, 4-lobed ; lobes spreading, ovate. 
Capsule }in. long, broadly ovate, acute, twice as long as the calyx,— 
A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 189; A. Cunn. Precur, (1838) n. 379 ; Raoul 
Choix (1846) 43; Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 58; FI. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 
du’ “193: Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 209; J. B. Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xi 
881) 351; ZT. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii (1896) 526 ; Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 516. V. decussata Art. Hort. Kew. i (1789) 20; Bot. Mag. 
(1794) +.242. 74. | NBs Use P04GLD) 27 
Nort Istanp: Taranaki—Shores of Cape Egmont, P. G. Morgan. Wellington— 
Titahi Bay, near Cape Terawhiti, B. C. Aston! Cockayne. Soutu Istanp: Western 
‘coast from West Wanganui and Cape Foulwind southwards, not uncommon ; east and 
southern coasts of Otago, and islands in Foveaux Strait. Cuatuam Isuanps: H. H. 
Travers! G. Mair! Stewart Istanp AND THE Snares: Not uncommon on the 
coasts. AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL ISLANDS: Abundant on the shore, Hooker and 
others. December—January, 
A most distinct species, easily recognized by the pale-green elliptic apiculate petiolate 
leaves, and large white or blucish-white flowers. It is also a native of the Falkland 
Islands, Fuegia, and South Chile, and is the only shrubby species found in New Zealand 
that extends beyond the Dominion. -¢4..-< , tol Go: FIG + +7 / j ) 
36. V. Matthewsii Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 517.— An erect 
glabrous shrub 2-4 ft. high or more ; branches stout, terete, often purplish- 
red when young. Leaves close-set, sessile, suberect or spreading, #-1} in. 
long, 4-2 in. broad, oblong or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or subacute, rounded 
at the base, thick and coriaceous, flat, quite entire. Racemes near the tips 
of the branches or rarely lateral, large, 2-4 in. long including the stout 
naked peduncle, obtuse or tapering, densely many-flowered ; rhachis stout, 
pubescent; pedicels very short, stout ; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acute or obtuse. Flowers large, }-4in. diam. or more, white or purplish. 
Calyx deeply 4-partite; segments oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse, often 
with purplish margins. Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx; limb 
spreading, 4-lobed; lobes subequal, broadly oblong, rounded at the tip. 
Ovary pubescent at the tip. Capsule jin. long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse 
or subacute, about twice as long as the calyx.—tll. N.Z. Fl. ii (1914) 
t. 151. 
Sourn IstaANnp: Canterbury—Southern Alps, Haast / J. B. Armstrong / Otago-- 
Milford Sound, J. D. Enys ! Humboldt Mountains, H. J. Matthews ! 
A handsome plant, often cultivated in gardens in the South Island as a variety of 
V. Traversii, but a much stouter plant with a different habit of growth, and with thicker 
and more coriaceous oblong leaves, and larger and stouter racemes with much larger 
flowers. It is nearer to V. Balfouriana, but that species has smaller leaves, acute calyx- 
segments, and a corolla-tube hardly longer than the calyx. 
37. V. Carsei- Petrie in Trans. N Z. Inst. lv (1924) 96—An erect 
glabrous shrub 2-6{t. high, rarely more; branches slender, virgate, sub- 
erect or spreading, terete, marked with the scars of the fallen leaves ; 
bark dark-brown or on the younger branchlets almost black. Leaves 
oka sessile or shortly petiolate, suberect or spreading, #-1j1n. long, 
4-3 ln, broad, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, acute or subacute, coriaceous, 
quite entire, flat above, midrib prominent beneath. Racemes long and 
slender, from near the base of the last year’s shoots, 2-3in. long including 
= AH. Cansei (fetiie y CKu- Tans 60 :1929: 4 69 
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