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814 SCROPHULARIACEAE. | Veronzca., 
Sours Istanp: Mountains of Canterbury and Otago, not uncommon in dry places. 
1000-3500 ft. November—January. 
Well marked by the small size, prostrate or straggling habit, small glaucous leaves, 
villous spikes, and purplish-blue flowers. peony. p. Ba 
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60. V. Gilliesiana 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii (1896) 519.— 
Stems prostrate or decumbent, much branched, 3-12 in. long; branches 
spreading or suberect, densely leafy, tetragonous, with the leaves on 
11 in. diam.; bright-green when fresh, black- when dry. Leaves densely 
imbricating, opposite pairs connate by the dilated bases, spreading above, 
4-4 in. long, linear or linear-oblong, obtuse and tumid at the tip, deeply 
concave in front, convex on the back, rather fleshy ; margins ciliate-denti- 
culate along their whole length. Leaves of young plants linear, irregularly 
lobulate or pinnatifid, glabrous. Flowers small, white, 4-+in. diam., 
usually arranged in axillary 2—4-flowered spikes near the tips of the branches, 
the spikes often forming a subcapitate head, more rarely the flowers are 
solitary and axillary. Calyx deeply 4-partite; segments linear-oblong, 
obtuse, margins ciliolate. Corolla-tube short; lobes 4, spreading, orbi- 
cular-oblong, obtuse, almest equal, but the dorsal one slightly broader and 
the anticous one slightly narrower than the others. Stamens 2 or very 
rarely 4; filaments very short, altogether included. Style included. 
Capsule exceeding the calyx, ovoid-oblong, subcompressed, seated within a 
cupular disc.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 527. Logania_ ciliolata 
Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1867) 737. Mitrasacme Hookeri Buch. in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xiv (1882) 348, t. 29, f. 1. 7 
South Istanp: Nelson—Mount Arthur and Mount Owen, 7’. F. C.; Mount 
Mantell, Mount Buckland. W. Townson / Mount Franklin, F. G. Gibbs / Mount Percival, 
T. F. C.; Amuri, 7. Kirk! Lake Tennyson, R. M. Laing! Canterbury—Arthur’s 
Pass and Waimakariri Glacier, T. Kirk! T. F. C., Cockayne! Browning’s Pass and 
Rangitata Valley, Haast / Mount Cook district, 7. F. C.; Copeland Pass, Cockayne. 
Westland—Kelly’s Hill, Petrie! Mount Alexander, Cockayne / Otago—Mount Alta, 
Buchanan ! 3000-5500 ft. December—March. 
A very remarkable and distinct species, quite unlike any other. 
61. V. tetrasticha Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 212.—A small much- 
branched shrub forming depressed patches 4-12 in. diam.; branches very 
numerous, decumbent below, erect or spreading above; branchlets acutely 
tetragonous with the faces more or less concave, with the leaves on #s—J, in. 
diam., black when dry. Leaves most densely quadrifariously imbricated, 
opposite pairs connate at the base and forming a short ring clasping the 
branch, spreading above, ;,-4,in. long, ovate-deltoid, narrowed into a 
short subacute tip, thick and coriaceous, concave in front, rounded or flat 
on the back, not keeled; margins ciliolate. Leaves of young plants linear- 
spathulate, flat, spreading, ciliolate and sparsely hispid. Flowers in short 
2-4-flowered spikes near the ends of the branchlets, small, 4-4 in. diam., 
white; rhachis and peduncle villous. Calyx deeply 4-partite; segments 
linear-oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube short; limb with four equal spreading 
rounded lobes. Stamens 2, at first included, but the filaments lengthen 
before the flower withers. Ovary seated in a cupular dise. Capsule 
twice as long as the calyx, obovoid, compressed, obtuse.—J. B. Armstr. 
wm Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii (1881) 351; ZT. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviil 
(1896) 521; Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxi (1899) 377 (development of 
seedling) ; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. (1906) 528. 
