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804 SCROPHULARIACEAE. | [ Veronica. 
Nortu Istanp: Hawke’s Bay—On hills in the interior, Colenso/ SouvTH ISLAND; 
Nelson—Hanmer district, hills by Jack’s Pass, Cockayne, Petrie! Canterbury—Craigie- 
burn Mountains, Cockayne / 2000-3500 ft. December—February. 
This is probably nearer to some of the forms included under V. Traversii than to 
any other, but can be separated by the more distant not keeled glaucous leaves, tapering 
racemes, and short corolla-tube hairy in the throat. Dr. Cockayne’s plant has rather 
smaller and narrower leaves than Colenso’s type, but otherwise there is little difference 
between them. 
40, V. Traversit Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 208 (on part).— 
A small perfectly glabrous shrub, usually forming a round compact bush 
9-5 ft. diam.; branches terete, densely clothed with decussate leaves. 
Leaves spreading, petiolate or subsessile, uniform in size and shape, 3-1 in. 
long, 44in. broad, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate to linear-oblong, 
acute or subacute, usually narrowed to an acute base, coriaceous, 
channelled above, more or less keeled beneath, nerveless, margins entire, 
midrib usually strong. Racemes near the tips of the branches, 1-3in. 
long, long and tapering or short and obtuse, simple, many-flowered ; 
rhachis slender, puberulous; pedicels variable in length; bracts small. 
Flowers white, tin. diam. Calyx 4-partite; segments broadly oblong 
or ovate, obtuse, margins often membranous, ciliolate. Corolla-tube from 
slightly longer to nearly twice as long as the calyx; limb 4-lobed ; lobes 
subequal, oblong, obtuse. Capsule elliptic-ovate, acute, compressed, twice 
as long as the calyx.—Bot. Mag. (1878) t. 6390; Masters in Gard. Chron. 
(1873) 1046; J. B. Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii (1881) 351; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 519; Adamson in Journ. Linn. Soc, xl (1912) 257. 
Var. fallax Cheesem.—Not so closely branched, often reddish-brown when fresh. 
Leaves more laxly placed, sessile, linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 
flat or nearly so. Racemes lax-flowered; pedicels very short. Corolla-tube short, 
only slightly exceeding the calyx. 
Var. elegans Cheesem.—Branches slender. Leaves more laxly placed, spreading, 
narrow linear-oblong, flat. Racemes oblong, obtuse; pedicels long, slender. Calyx 
small. Corolla-tube long, narrow, two or three times the length of the calyx. 
Soutn Isnanp: Abundant in mountain districts from Nelson to Otago. 500- 
3500 ft. December—February. 
There is much confusion as to the limits of this species. The description given in 
the Handbook evidently includes more species than one; but without an examination 
of the material which Hooker had before him it is not easy to decide which should be 
taken as the type. I have selected the plant figured in the Botanical Magazine 
(t. 6390), which is also identical with that described by Dr. Masters in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle. It appears to have been included in the original description, has a wide 
distribution in the South Island, and is the form usually cultivated under the name of 
V. Traversit; but I am unable to say whether it was actually collected by Travers. 
On the other hand, Mr. N. E. Brown, who has lately examined the whole of the New 
Zealand Veronicae in the Kew Herbarium, is of opinion that my var. elegans should be 
regarded as the type. It was collected by both Travers and Haast, but seems to be a 
local plant, all the specimens I have seen having come from the Canterbury Provincial 
District. It differs conspicuously from the Botanical Magazine plant in the long and 
slender corolla-tube, in that and other respects approaching V. leiophylla. Probably 
the two plants are distinct, but I hesitate to describe them as such until more con- 
clusive evidence has been obtained. | 
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41. -V. evenosa Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlviii (1916) 189.— A tall 
perfectly glabrous shrub 4-8ft. high; main branches wide-spreading, 
ultimate branchlets numerous, slender, twiggy, ringed with the scars of 
the fallen leaves. Leaves spreading, 4-1hin. long, $in. broad, narrow- 
elliptic, very uniform in size and shape, gradually tapering to a narrow 
sessile base, acute or subacute at the tip, thin, midrib grooved above, 
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